2nd Test: New Zealand v South Africa at Hamilton Mar 15-19, 2012

[Rod]

88/6 is a little bit misleading considering one of them was Steyn but these late runs are indeed hurting us.

 

[Meth]

At 88/6, the wickets we needed were Boucher, Philander, Morkel and Tahir (or DeVilliers). 250 is disgraceful

 

[Meth]

33 for this partnership so far.

 

[Meth]

Williamson picks up the wicket of Tahir. 253 all out

 

[Izz]

Williamson gets final wicket. 253 all out. Lead of 68.

 

[edabomb]

Nicol having a real Rutherford of a run here. Hopeless.

 

[Izz]

Poor dude. I rate him, personally, but he's just looking like a muppet at the moment.

 

[Izz]

Now McCullum's out. 7/2.

 

[Izz]

7/3. Guptill gone.

 

[Izz]

Williamson's time to stand up and be counted for.

 

[edabomb]

What an absolute joke we are. Could lose by an innings here.

 

[JoeD]

I was thinking the same. Wonder what the lowest first innings total for a team to win by an innings is?

 

[Meth]

I'm gonna go ahead and focus on the weekend of Rugby League ahead now.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Typical NZ performance.

There's two things you can count on with them.

1) Their batting innings will involve at least 1 clump of 3-4 wickets.
2) An inability to remove the tail after getting through the hard part.

Could almost set your watch to it.

 

[African Monkey]

Lets be honest here our batting lineup is almost the weakest in world cricket. It wouldn't be much better than Bangladesh's batting lineup.

 

[TheParraboy]

Hope kiwis make a few runs, Id like to see Jacques bat again

 

[Hallatia]

Sorry I couldn't spend the first half of this test with you guys, I just moved to Queensland a couple of days ago and things have been a bit hectic.

This has been another competitive match which has been great to see. There has been good and bad from both sides, but I think SAfrica are on top at the moment.

There was also a lovely little cameo from my man Morne with the bat yesterday

And as I type this, Vernon gets one. Missed out on 5 again in the first innings, but it was great to see Steyn damaging after an ordinary first test by his standards

 

[Hallatia]

At Lunch on day 3 New Zealand are 142/6, lead by 74, Kane Williamson still going for New Zealand, currently on 77

 

[Meth]

Hopefully Williamson can press on and notch up a century (and the remaining 3 batsmen can stick with him long enough for that to happen). That's the only good that can come out the rest of this Test for NZ

 

[Meth]

Philander and Steyn is a 2 way battle for player of the match here. They've killed us.