3rd ODI: South Africa v New Zealand at Potchefstroom Jan 25, 2013

[snoozer]

5 run outs.

Sensational fielding from us. Pleasantly surprised by NZ's performance in this ODI series.

Obviously the saffas picked up a few pointers about running between the wickets from playing us recently.

 

[vvvrulz]

I think South Africa were being a bit ambitious with their selections. No Kallis, Steyn or Amla especially after being 1-0 down was a poor call, this was almost a B team.

Hats off to NZ though, always producing miracles after hitting the absolute pits.

 

[Twizzle]

wow, choke of epic proportions

 

[Fast Eddie]

I think South Africa were being a bit ambitious with their selections. No Kallis, Steyn or Amla especially after being 1-0 down was a poor call, this was almost a B team.

Hats off to NZ though, always producing miracles after hitting the absolute pits.

We also had a B team. No Ryder, Taylor, Southee or Vettori.

 

[vvvrulz]

We also had a B team. No Ryder, Taylor, Southee or Vettori.

Yep true, not taking anything away from us... it was a great victory.

 

[IanG]

wow, choke of epic proportions

Yeah the Cricket Boks are good at that

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

A few months ago, South Africa were top of the ODI rankings, now I know India are, I'm not sure where South Africa have fallen to, but they have shown which end of the ladder they belong at the moment with some ordinary ordinary performances.

Currently 3rd equal with Australia/Sri Lanka so you'd have to assume one of those teams will go ahead seeing as they're playing each other today.

For NZ, we have finally climbed into 8th spot above the might of Bangladesh.

 

[IanG]

Hope they make a clean sweep to be honest.

 

[aussies1st]

SA choking alive and well.

 

[byrne_rovelli_fan82]

I watched the whole first innings and only saw up to the first SA wicket sometime after 4:30am pissed I missed the rest!!! lol

 

[IanG]

I watched the whole first innings and only saw up to the first SA wicket sometime after 4:30am pissed I missed the rest!!! lol

Doesn't Sky have an equivilant of IQ?

 

[Rod]

Yep. They always have multiple replays and highlights as well.

 

[Hallatia]

this dead rubber is happening now. New Zealand won the toss and are batting, Guptill out for 5 and now that he's gone, watch the overall performance of New Zealand drastically improve. Run rate is low at the moment 17/1 after 7

 

[Hallatia]

there has bee a lot of dot balls so far in this match. I noticed after 8 overs there had been 40 dots. Sout of 48 legitimate balls bowled, only 8 of them were scored from:crazy:. I think the rate has improved a bit since then, not significantly though. But there is still so much time left and the balls are still new ... etc, New Zealand are currently 2 wickets down for 27 after 11.2

 

[IanG]

C'mon Black Caps

 

[TheParraboy]

SA need 69 off 60 balls, 6 wickets in hand

Carn kwis though looks like SA in control,Smith playing a blinder

 

[TheParraboy]

the choke is on

31 from 25 - 4 wickets left

 

[AlwaysGreen]

A six off the last ball!

Victory to SA in the battle of the minnows.

 

[MKEB...]

Geez I enjoyed watching that although we lost. A cracker of a game.

 

[hineyrulz]

Saffa's nearly did what they do best :lol: