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 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
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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We still have to bat… and the wicket looks troublesome.
Flokken Natallers kannie gras sny of tuin maak nie…. hehehe
@ grootblousmile:
Oompie Puma is missing good cricket…
Hy’t seker vergeet… eish
@ grootblousmile:
NAaaa boet we will make those runs with ease, I know the Kingsmead wicket, that wicket has very little in it, I grew up watching games there , old days yes was mean
@ grootblousmile:
I told you he is taking his afternoon nap 😆
64 @ Sharks_forever:
Yip, you’re so old, you must have seen them build Kingsmead…. hehehe
@ Sharks_forever:Have you decided what changes to the site you are going to make yet??
Heyyyyyyyyyy PUMA, word flokken wakker, boet!
Ai, it must be difficult being 57.
He must be scouting for Retirement Villages… hehehe
@ grootblousmile: 😆 uhmnow you know ur only as old as the woman you feel? And you know my woman is younger then yours
67 @ Sharks_forever:
Sort of… will decide on everything as I go along too
@ grootblousmile:
I think he owns the villages 😆
69 @ Sharks_forever:
Cradle Snatcher!
So, New Zealand got lucky and has now seen 70 runs
@ grootblousmile:
3 x 4 in a row… nee man!
Petersen robbed of a wicket
NZ 81 / 8 after 17 overs
They avoid posting their lowest ever T20 total
Wicket
NZ 81 / 9
Steyn takes another
Ek het gou by Voldy ingeloer, The more dead than a dead donkeys dead dick 😆
their top thread only has 25 remarks, 2 days ago it was on 17 remarks lol
80 @ Sharks_forever:
Troublemakers must be on holiday… hahaha
All OUT… no, it was hit straight into the ground first…
OK, there is the final wicket indeed!
NZ 86 all out after 18.2 overs
Just got to see the end of the NZ innings. Well done SA, brilliant work
Smallchamge gets another and wraps up the Kiwi Innigs
@ grootblousmile:
@ grootblousmile:
Hehehehe you got caught out by the full toss hit straight into the ground
OK, Ama-Blomme to bat.
I recon they’ll reach the target in 12 overs
Levi again proves he was a one innings wonder lol
Eishhh, SA lose a wicket in the 1st over, no score
0 / 1 after 0.5 overs
Davids is a busy little fella… been following him for a while now.
He won’t just stand around… he’ll want fast runs
Pitch is not easy, Tjarkie!
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