| Venue | The SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff on 3rd September 2008 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | No result |
| Umpires | NJ Llong, SJA Taufel (Australia) |
| Third umpire | RA Kettleborough |
| Referee | RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) |
| Fourth Official | PJ Hartley |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | |
| HH Gibbs | c Prior b Broad | 3 | 7 | 5 | - | - |
| HM Amla | not out | 3 | 6 | 13 | - | - |
| *JH Kallis | not out | 0 | 5 | 7 | - | - |
| AB de Villiers | did not bat | |||||
| JP Duminy | did not bat | |||||
| +MV Boucher | did not bat | |||||
| JL Ontong | did not bat | |||||
| J Botha | did not bat | |||||
| M Morkel | did not bat | |||||
| DW Steyn | did not bat | |||||
| A Nel | did not bat | |||||
| Extras | 0 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 13 minutes, 3 overs) | 6 | ||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Gibbs, 1.3 ov) | ||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Anderson | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - |
| Broad | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | - |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | |
| IR Bell | did not bat | |||||
| +MJ Prior | did not bat | |||||
| OA Shah | did not bat | |||||
| *KP Pietersen | did not bat | |||||
| A Flintoff | did not bat | |||||
| PD Collingwood | did not bat | |||||
| SR Patel | did not bat | |||||
| LJ Wright | did not bat | |||||
| SCJ Broad | did not bat | |||||
| SJ Harmison | did not bat | |||||
| JM Anderson | did not bat | |||||
Notes
--> The match was reduced before play started to 43 overs per side
