Phil Salt smashed a new England-record T20I score of 141 on an extraordinary night in Manchester, the hosts scoring 300 for the first time as they beat South Africa by 146 runs to level the series.

Salt struck eight of England's 18 sixes for the innings, to go with 15 boundaries, as he blasted a 39-ball hundred to also best Liam Livingstone's previous record-fastest mark off 44 deliveries.

Salt started as he meant to go on, tonking three fours off the first three balls of the match as he and Jos Buttler (83 off 30 balls) hammered 100 off the opening six-over powerplay - another England record.

Buttler, who cracked seven sixes and eight fours, would be denied a stunning century of his own as left-arm spinner Bjorn Fortuin (2-52) would finally break the stunning 129-run stand in the eight

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