So now it's all ok again. The South African batting has crumbled before the might of England's attack and the humiliation against Ireland can be forgotten.
While beating the Springboks is an achievement, it seems that this was more about the South Africans unaccountably throwing away a match that was almost 'done and dusted'. From 124-3, they collapsed to 127-7 which no international team should ever do. Given the previous performances of England's bowlers, it seems unlikely that they were the real cause of the debacle and it's probably more likely that the South Africans simply stopped concentrating as it all seemed so easy.
Whatever, England have re-established themselves as likely qualifiers from their group as it would take defeat against Bangladesh next Friday to stop them, and there's pretty well no chance of that. What does still matter is where in the group England finish; as it's a 'top v 4th' arrangement for the ¼ finals, they could easily find themselves playing the winners of the other group, which wouldn't be good. Still, I've no doubt that the English media will have them re-installed as potential competetion winners by now.
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