South Africa and New Zealand did battle in the 1st T20 International at Kingsmead, Durban at 18:00 SA Time on Friday 21 December 2012.
This was the Live Game Article for the match.
South Africa won with ease, with 7.5 overs to spare (47 balls). The South African bowlers did the trick, bowling the New Zealanders out for a poultry 86 runs in 18.2 overs. New Zealand took the 1st South African wicket without a single run on the board for South Africa, but Faf du Plessis and Davids steadied the ship, untill Davids perished on 20, leaving it to young Quinton de Kock and Faf du Plessis to finish the New Zealanders off in style.
New Zealand: 86 All Out (18.2 overs)
South Africa: 87 / 2 (12.1 overs)
Match over
- New Zealand in South Africa T20 International Series – 1st T20 International
- T20 International No. 293 / 2012 / 2013 season
- Played at Kingsmead, Durban
- 21 December 2012 – day / night (20-over match)
| New Zealand innings (20 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RJ Nicol | c †de Kock b Kleinveldt | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| PG Fulton | c Morris b Steyn | 9 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 69.23 | |
| BB McCullum*† | c Steyn b Kleinveldt | 6 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 54.54 | |
| JEC Franklin | c †de Kock b McLaren | 0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| C Munro | c & b Morris | 23 | 34 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 127.77 | |
| Corey J Anderson | c Levi b Morris | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| NL McCullum | b Peterson | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| JDS Neesham | b Peterson | 10 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 142.85 | |
| DAJ Bracewell | not out | 21 | 32 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 84.00 | |
| RM Hira | c Kleinveldt b Steyn | 5 | 19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| MJ McClenaghan | c Peterson b Kleinveldt | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 2) | 3 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 18.2 overs; 83 mins) | 86 | (4.69 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-9 (Nicol, 2.1 ov), 2-19 (Fulton, 3.6 ov), 3-19 (BB McCullum, 4.5 ov), 4-27 (Franklin, 6.2 ov), 5-34 (Anderson, 7.3 ov), 6-36 (NL McCullum, 8.5 ov), 7-54 (Neesham, 10.4 ov), 8-60 (Munro, 11.6 ov), 9-81 (Hira, 17.1 ov), 10-86 (McClenaghan, 18.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| R McLaren | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 6.75 | |||
| DW Steyn | 3 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4.33 | (1w) | ||
| RK Kleinveldt | 3.2 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 5.40 | |||
| CH Morris | 3.4 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 5.18 | (1w) | ||
| RJ Peterson | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2.00 | |||
| F du Plessis | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| South Africa innings (target: 87 runs from 20 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RE Levi | c Fulton b McClenaghan | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| H Davids | b Hira | 20 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 153.84 | |
| F du Plessis* | not out | 38 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 118.75 | ||
| Q de Kock† | not out | 28 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 121.73 | ||
| Extras | (w 1) | 1 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 12.1 overs) | 87 | (7.15 runs per over) | |||||
| To bat F Behardien, DA Miller, RJ Peterson, R McLaren, DW Steyn, CH Morris, RK Kleinveldt |
| Fall of wickets 1-0 (Levi, 0.5 ov), 2-45 (Davids, 5.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| MJ McClenaghan | 3 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 6.66 | |||
| DAJ Bracewell | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 10.50 | (1w) | ||
| RM Hira | 3 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 5.00 | |||
| Corey J Anderson | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 | |||
| NL McCullum | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| RJ Nicol | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 | |||
| JDS Neesham | 0.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12.00 |
| Match details |
| Toss: New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat |
| T20I debuts Corey J Anderson, MJ McClenaghan, C Munro and JDS Neesham (New Zealand); H Davids, Q de Kock and CH Morris (South Africa) Player of the match tba |
| Umpires JD Cloete and S George TV umpire AT Holdstock Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire BG Jerling |
| Match notes |
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Cricket was a bit disappointing was expecting more of a match than that. Excellent crowd too, think they would have like it to have gone on longer no doubt.
Well done to our Proteas.
108 @ Sharks_forever:
@ Puma:
Hehehehehe bro
122 @ Sharks_forever:
Wanted to blog while the crici was on, but just got lazy and relaxed back and watched without blogging….. LOL.
Must have been a disappointment to the big crowd that came out to watch. Don’t enjoy that type of cricket if there is no contest. Eventually got chatting to my daughter who is here from CT for a few days until after Xmas.
Okay will catch up tomorrow. I log on and everyone has logged off already……… 😆
This cricket felt as quick as a 7’s game…..
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