Black Caps v South Africa
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Probably is when the opposition have ABdV at the wicket. You've got to get him out or you're going to lose. But this isn't a complete road.
Paying the price a bit for Broom's cheap dismissal - held off our charge for a few more overs and then we didn't get any massive overs to get us over 310.
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And Timmy is good enough!!! Or more to the point - Phehlekwayo isn't. Decides to take it all on his own shoulders and can't get more than a single of any of the first four, so declines them all and "concedes" the match.
We get there, but it should have been more comfortable after AB and Morris went.
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So stoked with that win but I had a sour taste in my mouth around Sodhi. He just cannot field.
His bowling was shot for the most and when I was complaining the loudest he took that game turning wicket.
I don't know. Fuck I love when we win but that was full of a lot of stupid
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@Hooroo Yeah - I thought Santner showed why he's been preferred to Sodhi for the most part. Just able to exert more control at crucial times. You can't really rely on Ish to dry up an end if you need it.
A bit of a lack of composure over those closing overs - a couple of misfields by Kane and Brownlie, CdGh a bit slow with a narrow runout opportunity, some poor bowling by all of Sodhi, Boult and Southee opening the door for Pretorius and Phehlekwayo.
The best thing was it put Kepler Wessels back in his box. He was starting to annoy me with his cocky, "you boys have blown this". What have we got an Australian commentator for this series for anyway?
(Pretty sure it's Kepler isn't it?).
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Kudos to this team for fighting themselves back into winning positions during the ebbs and lows, even if they don't win all the time.
The scars of bygone days when the friggin games were all over after an hour or two (or worse you stayed with it to watch our opponents flogging a dead horse) still run deep
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Havent had time to read whole thread and had to follow much of the 2nd innings from A&E yesterday arvo so wasnt fully following it but who come CdG only bowled the 4 overs? Seemed to be going well but not sure why he wasnt bowled more.
I felt out batting was 30 runs or so short so expected SA to get there without too much trouble but we did well to keep them under control and then let the pressure mount once we got a few wickets.
Pretty awesome to break the SA run of wins
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@JK The 10 overs spread between CdGh, Neesham and Williamson were all completed by the 20th or 21st over. Much different pattern than we've used in recent times.
I guess they opted to rush through the 5th bowler and then, needing wickets to win, stuck with the frontline guys they thought most likely to take those wickets.
I did wonder at the time about the wisdom of letting Ish bowl his final over after he'd been caned in his 9th - probably would have recalled Colin for that one - but Ish delivered.
Another good thing about that win is that I'm sure we had the more difficult batting conditions.
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