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 |
We need to get Guptill… and fast
NZ over the halfway mark as Guptill gets yet another 4 and also goes over 50 runs
8 Overs left, New Zealand still need 82…. that’s a smidgen over 10 an over… gettable
NZ 101 / 1 after 12 overs.
NZ need 68 off 42 balls… looks more and more possible
Need to peg Guptill back and get his wicket too…
NZ 106 / 1 after 13 overs
Nz need 63 off 6 overs…. still just over 10 an over required
Fark, get a wicket boys!
NZ 124 / 1 after 14 overs….
They look like winning it….
Okay from thinking they will never do it, well they will win this. Looks easy for them from here on.
Looks easy for them now.
Come on Blomme, don’t wilt now.. damn man!
Going to log off now and go watch the rest of this game.
Cheers Gbs, catch up tomorrow. We will have to win the last game to win the T20.
39 needed off 4 overs… just less than 10 an over needed…. 9 wickets in hand.
NZ have done very well here. Should easily take it now with so many wickets in hand. Cricket is a funny old game. How is it possible for NZ to go from piss poor last match to this. I have decided, cricket is like a woman – as long as you don’t try to understand her, you’ll be content in life!!!!
132 @ Puma:
Cheers Oompie!
JFK see you still on line. Cheers bud, good to catch up. I am out of here now.
This was definitely a pitch to bowl first on – who won the toss? I do hope it wasn’t Faf!!!!
134 @ Just For Kicks:
hahahaha. Good one…lol.
Yip thought we would win this after their terrible performance in Durbs. It has all been turned around here.
Okay out of here now catch up tomorrow.
Cheers everyone.
@ Puma:Cheers, Pum’s Have a great Christmas, will catch up probably only when we get back on boxing day. I have bought a router for my mother in law for Christmas (ulterior motive), but am guessing that she will have forgotten where she put her log-in password, and so won’t be able to sort it till after Christmas.
30 needed off 3 overs, exactly 10 an over
Looks like it is going to the wire here…
Guptil my MOTM. Started off very iffy, but has gone on to play a brilliant innings.
Pfrrrtttt.. full toss punished with a 4
Guptill perishes.. or does he?
Above the waist…. no ball called, Guptill stays
Ball wet, ground slippery, pitch sticky and very gloomy – no bowling side could win in these conditions. I don’t think SA have played badly, they just look as if they have in these conditions. Now a no ball from that wicket, eish!
Wicket… McCullum goes
McCullum gone this time – a little too late, I fear
NZ 149 / 2 after 17 overs
Petersen drops Guptill… eishhhh
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