England crush South Africa by ten wickets

England demolished South Africa by ten-wickets at Trent Bridge to take a 2-0 lead in the NatWest Series.

The tourists were blown away for 83 by Stuart Broad's five-wicket haul after South Africa captain had won the toss and chosen to bat.

England openers Ian Bell and Matt Prior then cruised home in a flurry of boundaries, crossing the finishing line in just 14.1 overs in the latest comprehensive victory of new skipper Kevin Pietersen's already impressive reign.

All-rounder Broad, opening the bowling on his home ground, completed the fifth most successful figures in England one-day international history.

The 22-year-old finished with 10-3-23-5 as the South Africans were dismissed in 23 overs.

He completed his quintet when he was fortuitously awarded the dismissal of Johan Botha as the batsman jabbed down at a ball which nipped back off the seam.

Although he had four balls to surpass Paul Collingwood's England record return of six for 31, his statistics took something of a battering from Andre Nel, who struck three of them to the boundary.

But an attempt to launch Steve Harmison's opening delivery from the pavilion end into the stratosphere had disastrous consequences as Luke Wright steadied himself under a skier and Nel departed having top-scored with 13.

Although Albie Morkel, returning from a shoulder injury, put his side past South Africa's lowest one-day total of 69, scored against Australia in Sydney in 1993, with a hoik through the leg-side for four off Harmison, he was soon providing wicketkeeper Prior with a sixth catch behind the stumps.

South Africa's second-worst total was confirmed when Andrew Flintoff rearranged Dale Steyn's stumps.

After Proteas captain Graeme Smith won the toss, Nottinghamshire's Broad completed a stunning spell of four wickets in 16 balls to rip the heart out of the tourists' batting.

Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis and JP Duminy all succumbed to edges as did Smith, who was sensationally caught one-handed by a diving Prior.

The second of those was 22-year-old Broad's 50th one-day international wicket in his 34th appearance - and established him as the second youngest England bowler to reach the milestone behind James Anderson, his new-ball partner.

Broad's burst reduced the tourists, who slumped to a surprise 20-run defeat in the opener to the five-match series at Headingley on Friday, to 53 for seven by the end of his spell.

Flintoff's firepower with the ball accounted for both AB de Villiers and Mark Boucher and put England on course for a two-match NatWest Series advantage.