2nd ODI: New Zealand v South Africa at Christchurch on Feb 22, 2017

[TheParraboy]

Hopefully kiwis can bounce back in this one

Would Ronchi or Watling be considered?

 

[Iafeta]

Interesting to see if we can bounce back. TBF we have played three poor teams at home this summer. South Africa are a massive step up on our last visitors who we swept easily.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

ABDV goes down injured and Smith has him out for 6 monthss with a dislocated shoulder.

Nek minnet he's up running around like a pup.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Interesting to see if we can bounce back. TBF we have played three poor teams at home this summer. South Africa are a massive step up on our last visitors who we swept easily.

The battle of the world cup chokers is always an interesting one.

 

[Meth]

Brownlie was looking good and is given out lbw by Reifell. To me, it clearly looked like it was going down leg and replays confirm it.

Williamson is great at many things, but deciding on a review is not one of them

 

[Meth]

Hopefully kiwis can bounce back in this one

Would Ronchi or Watling be considered?

No.

If Latham isn't doing the job, we need to look to the future.

 

[Iafeta]

Brownlie was looking good and is given out lbw by Reifell. To me, it clearly looked like it was going down leg and replays confirm it.

Williamson is great at many things, but deciding on a review is not one of them

Reiffel is a massive plodder. Makes mistakes regularly.

 

[JJ]

No.

If Latham isn't doing the job, we need to look to the future.

Latham patently isn't in ODIs (as a bat) IMO, his keeping's ok I think, was shown up a bit at the end of the last game but that's down to practice I imagine

Phillips is likely the long term answer, but wrong (as we saw in the T20) to chuck him in against this lot

 

[Meth]

Santner should be batting at 9 today

 

[Meth]

Very good innings from Neesham

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Taylor playing a pretty good controlled knock.

But he should give up on those dinky little shots. Not his strong point.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Well played Roscoe. The best bat NZ have produced since Crowe.

I reckon that score is just about right.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Great knock from Taylor.

Score can be defended, but it's also one of those ones where if they don't defend it only 4 wickets down might look like they left a few runs in the bank.

 

[Iafeta]

Massive choke. Southee as a death bowler is an absolute joke. He's the modern day Mick Lewis.

 

[TheParraboy]

bowled by a full toss ,lol

kiwis game now for sure

 

[Iafeta]

Phehlukawayo that is some seriously dumb and or selfish batting. I understand Tahir can't bat but when you won't take a single and let it get to 15 off 2, that is some seriously stupid, thick cricket.

 

[Iafeta]

Pleased to see Ross getting respect too. I'm biased, I played against him as a youngster and even then we all knew he would play test cricket. I've never seen a kid so controlled in his batting and so completely composed.

IMO he is in the absolute elite status of NZ bats. His record by NZ standards is phenomenal and we forget how often he held a poor batting team together.

 

[JJ]

Hilarious that they keep leaving Taylor out of the T20 team - he's a streaky bastard, but with his bung eye fixed he's on fire

 

[Red Bear]

Taylor must just about be best ODI bad NZ has had

 

[Mixmasterreece]

Santner is becoming a very useful ODI player. He will only get better in the longer forms.

A lot of Vettori in him