wickets in Cape Town.
England fabricated alone 134-8 admitting getting able-bodied set on 50-1 afterwards six overs, Jos Buttler top-scoring with 32 not out while spinner Imran Tahir took 4-21.
The hosts bare 15 runs from the final over and two off the endure delivery.
Chris Morris scampered two as bowler Reece Topley bootless to aggregate Joe Root's bandy from long-off.
Morris, who aswell produced a match-winning 62 off 38 assurance in the fourth one-day international, accomplished with 17 not out off seven balls.
The defeat was England's fourth in a row afterward their 3-2 about-face in the one-day series, but alone their aboriginal accident in seven Twenty20 internationals.
The additional bold of the two-match alternation takes places in Johannesburg on Sunday.
That will be England's endure aggressive bout afore their aperture bold of the World Twenty20 on 16 March.
England yield it to the wire
England knew they bare wickets to accept any adventitious of acceptable and their hopes were additional if Chris Jordan (3-23) absolved AB de Villiers cheaply and Ben Stokes (1-19) removed Hashim Amla for 22 in a wicket-maiden.
Adil Rashid claimed the wicket of JP Duminy and adolescent spinner Moeen Ali addled twice, including the wicket of top scorer Faf du Plessis for 25, to accomplish the hosts nervous.
David Miller hit a six and a four in the 18th over but Jordan had him bent on the abuttals and bowled David Wiese via an central bend in a superb penultimate over that amount alone six runs.
After Kyle Abbott ran a individual off the aboriginal brawl of the final over, Morris addled alternating abounding tosses from Topley for four and six.
However, a dot brawl was followed by two to long-off, abrogation Morris on bang for the endure supply of the game.
Root's bandy on the animation was authentic but Topley, at the non-striker's end, fumbled the brawl with Morris abbreviate of his ground.
Had Topley completed the run-out, the bold would accept gone to a cool over
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