Hales hit 99 as England went 2-0 up in the five-match ODI series

Alex Hales hit 99 as England went 2-0 up in the five-match ODI series with a five-wicket victory at Port Elizabeth.

AB de Villiers top-scored for South Africa with 73 off 91 balls as they posted 262-7 on a slow pitch, England left-armer Reece Topley claiming 4-50.
Hales then struck a second successive fifty, becoming the first batsman out for 99 in both ODI and T20 matches.
And Jos Buttler followed his century in the first match with an unbeaten 48 as England won with 22 balls left.
The St George's Park surface was not as conducive to shot-making as the Bloemfontein track on which England hit 15 sixes and amassed 399 in that first match on Wednesday.
They lost three wickets inside seven overs but Buttler was coolness personified, hitting three successive sixes in a devastating 28-ball cameo as England scored the final 29 runs in just eight balls to take a strong advantage into the third match in Centurion on Tuesday.

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England lost Jason Roy in the third over and it prompted Joe Root and Hales to curb their natural attacking instincts.
Their calm second-wicket partnership of 97 in just under 23 overs contained only six boundaries but kept England in touch at 111-1 after 25 overs compared to South Africa's 114-3 at the same stage. When Root played on to his stumps for 38 in the 26th over, England skipper Eoin Morgan brought himself in at number four, deciding his busy style of play against the spinners would be better suited to the slow, low pitch than Buttler's daring brand of strokeplay.

With 94 needed from as many deliveries, Morgan hoisted Morne Morkel towards long-on and De Villiers took a perfectly judged catch.
Ben Stokes also came in ahead of Buttler and successfully overturned an lbw dismissal third ball from Imran Tahir as replays showed the ball pitched outside leg-stump, the third unfortunate decision from South African official Johan Cloete.
But the left-hander had still to score when he got an inside edge on to his stumps off Morkel in the next over.
The stage was set for Buttler, at number six instead of number four as he was in the first match, with 87 needed from 80 balls.
Man-of-the-match Hales, who made only 136 runs in eight innings in the Test series, looked certain to record his second ODI century but his composed 124-ball innings ended in the 42nd over when the ball brushed his bat in his follow-through and glanced to the wicketkeeper.