South Africa and New Zealand did battle in the 2nd T20 International at Buffalo Park, East London at 18:00 SA Time on Sunday 23 December 2012.
This was the Live Game Article for the match.
After New Zealand won the toss again, they decided to field first.
South Africa set a wonderful total of 165 / 5 after 19 overs (match was reuced to 19 overs due to a power outage in the flodd lights). bad fielding by South Africa, shoddy bowling with a wet ball and a marvelous innings of 101 not out by Martin Guptill saw New zealand home off a 4 on the last ball.
South Africa: 165 / 5 (19 overs)
New Zealand: 169 / 2 (19 overs)
Match over, New Zealand win
- New Zealand in South Africa T20I Series – 2nd T20I
- T20I no. 295 | 2012/13 season
- Played at Buffalo Park, East London
- 23 December 2012 – day/night (20-over match)
| South Africa innings (19 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RE Levi | c NL McCullum b Hira | 5 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| H Davids | c Neesham b McClenaghan | 55 | 46 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 144.73 | |
| F du Plessis* | c Anderson b Bracewell | 63 | 68 | 43 | 8 | 1 | 146.51 | |
| DA Miller | c Hira b Bracewell | 33 | 35 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 183.33 | |
| F Behardien | not out | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 250.00 | |
| RJ Peterson | c Neesham b Bracewell | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Q de Kock†| not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 1, nb 1) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 19 overs; 87 mins) | 165 | (8.68 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat R McLaren, M Morkel, RK Kleinveldt, AM Phangiso |
| Fall of wickets 1-13 (Levi, 3.1 ov), 2-81 (Davids, 11.3 ov), 3-160 (Miller, 18.2 ov), 4-160 (du Plessis, 18.3 ov), 5-161 (Peterson, 18.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| MJ McClenaghan | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 8.00 | (1nb) | ||
| RM Hira | 4 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 9.25 | |||
| DAJ Bracewell | 3 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 11.00 | (1w) | ||
| Corey J Anderson | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 10.50 | |||
| NL McCullum | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 5.75 | |||
| JEC Franklin | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 | |||
| RJ Nicol | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| New Zealand innings (target: 169 runs from 19 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| MJ Guptill | not out | 101 | 69 | 9 | 6 | 146.37 | ||
| RJ Nicol | c Miller b Peterson | 25 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 104.16 | ||
| BB McCullum*†| c Miller b McLaren | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 113.33 | ||
| C Munro | not out | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 114.28 | ||
| Extras | (lb 9, w 8, nb 1) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 19 overs) | 169 | (8.89 runs per over) | |||||
| To bat JEC Franklin, Corey J Anderson, NL McCullum, JDS Neesham, DAJ Bracewell, RM Hira, MJ McClenaghan |
| Fall of wickets 1-76 (Nicol, 9.5 ov), 2-149 (BB McCullum, 16.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RJ Peterson | 3 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 9.33 | (1w) | ||
| M Morkel | 4 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 7.25 | (1w) | ||
| RK Kleinveldt | 4 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 8.75 | |||
| R McLaren | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 6.50 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| AM Phangiso | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 10.50 | (1w) |
| Match details |
| Toss New Zealand, who chose to field |
| T20I debut AM Phangiso (South Africa) |
| Umpires S George and AT Holdstock TV umpire JD Cloete Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire BG Jerling |
OK, 3 balls late, but better late than never!
New Zealand won the toss again and this time chose to field.
Slow start by the Blomme.. and nearly a wicket as a ball is skied
SA 81 / 2 after 11.4 Overs
HIyas Rudi
My article are all done accept centers and back 3.
I went into a lot of effort for 9 and 10 as less players to explain about and also probably the 2 most important positions as play makers.
Been busy today… have had to do all sorts of handyman stuff… most electrical fittings and celing fans
4 @ Sharks_forever:
Great, that’s exactly what I want… thanks.
See you said somewhere, that this is the hardest you’ve worked all year on Articles… so spare a thought for me who’s done more than half the articles on the whole Rugby-Talk… hehehe
Oompie Puma…. come talks to I… hehehe
Jeeez, Oompie Puma is enjoying the Music Thread…. phweeew!
@ grootblousmile:
Hey now you know you hit your hand stukkend when ur handiman bru. lol stick to pc’s
Cheetah4eva… you can come talks to I as well… you are lurking, brother!
Hahaha
@ grootblousmile:
lol a pleasure bro and true, me I know what effort you put in, but I think many don’t.
SA doing well now, Faf and Miller turning it on now
Pooms is hiding from us hehehehe
Cheetah 4 neva , kom gesels broer, ons sal jou nie terg oor jou span nie, belowe 😆
8 @ grootblousmile:
My daughter was watching something on tv but finally have the tv back now so can watch come crici.
Yip enjoy the music thread…..
SA 108 / 2 after 15 overs…. can they reach 150?
@ grootblousmile:
Shoooooo Miller hit that ball hard
@ grootblousmile:
look at 160 plus boet, the likes of miller and Faf are big scorers
Jeeez, my wife, Handbriekie, gets this “NESTING INSTINCT” every December…. and I’m the one who has to freeging build and improve on our “NEST”.
SA 126 / 2 After 16 overs… was a great 16th over
@ grootblousmile:
😆
17 @ Sharks_forever:
At this rate, 170 Plus looks ON!
13 @ Sharks_forever:
Was enjoying myself there…………
Was just waiting for my daughter to finish watching something on tv. Now have it back so will follow the crici here with everyone.
How hot was it today? Jeepers have not felt that hot for a very long time. Also our damn electricity went out for about 3 hours, almost gave me heart failure……. 🙂 🙂 Went and sat in the pool…
Thought it was load shedding again, but lucky not. Back on for awhile now. Half our estate was without. Have the aircon on full now… 🙂 Now feel like a happy chappy……. 
@ grootblousmile:
Like I said 160 plus
Faf on 48
@ Puma:
😆
22 @ Puma:
Sounds like you’re sucking the nectar from life… shitty knees and all…. hehehe
Levi has not produced at all… 0 the other day, 5 today
Chaps i’ll be back a bit later, wifey needs the puter for a bit
enjoy
For a newbie, Davids has done well… 55 today off 38 balls
Players have just left the field as one of the stacks of lights have gone out
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