It was a great Thursday for cricket lovers at Zahur Ahmed Chaudhury Stadium in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong. In a late afternoon match, Netherlands nearly pulled off another miracle, before narrowly losing their game against the mighty South Africans, who should be indebted to Imran Tahir for saving them the blush. In the game that followed at the same venue, England beat Sri Lanka in the last over after successfully registering a phenomenal run chase, made possible by an unbeaten century by Alex Hales. The victory will help England remain in the reckoning for a place in the semifinals.