England can take heart from a brilliant bowling display as they head to 'fortress Newlands' for Sunday's series-deciding fifth one-day international against South Africa, says Nasser Hussain.
The tourists suffered their second straight defeat as South Africa scraped to 266-9 to overhaul England's 262-9 by one wicket in the fourth ODI, at Johannesburg.
Eoin Morgan's men appeared set to wrap up the series when the home side slipped to 210-8 after Joe Root's eighth ODI century had repaired the damage done by a middle-order slump.
But Chris Morris, snapped up by Delhi Daredevils in last week's IPL auction, was dropped by Adil Rashid on 14 and turned the tables with a scintillating 62.
"The balance of power has shifted towards South Africa definitely but England did play pretty well for large parts of this game," reflected former England skipper Hussain.
"If you can lose five wickets for 21 and still come so close to winning, it means you are putting in a lot of good performances. They were brilliant with the ball. Eoin Morgan's captaincy was very good, Reece Topley was exceptional.
"They are not just relying on one or two players. Adil Rashid might have dropped Morris on 14, but the game would have been lost if he hadn't scored runs earlier in the day.
"That said, they've lost a game they should have won and Root won't be the only distraught player; they're travelling to Cape Town on Saturday and now have to play at fortress Newlands.
"Only two sides in the history of the game have come back from being 2-0 down in a one-day series, so England could snatch defeat from the draws of victory and they will be under pressure."
England paid the price for shelling three catches, Jason Roy and Alex Hales also missing chances before Rashid dropped Morris off Topley at mid-off.
"It was a match of small margins," said Hussain. "Morris hit the ball up in the air on 14 and Rashid drops a catch he would have taken 99 times out of 100.
"England would then have been into the tail but as it was Morris went on and played brilliantly. You can see why Delhi have bought him in the IPL.
"He will have been under a little bit of pressure because quite a few South Africans were questioning if he was worth what he went for in the IPL auction but on his home ground in a losing situation the pressure was off him a little and some of the striking he did was absolutely brilliant.
"I don't think you can take anything away from how well South Africa played at the end; I don't think England could have done anymore apart from take those catches that they grassed.
"To defend a score like that you have to be perfect in the field. You drop AB de Villiers and JP Duminy and you think they are going to hurt you but they don't; you drop Morris who you don't think is going to hurt you and he does and that's the game gone there."
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