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Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: George Binoy
6.15 pm South Africa have won the series with a 2-0 lead after another no-show from New Zealand's top-order batsmen. Their bowlers did a decent job of reining in South Africa but all of it was in vain. Only Luke Ronchi showed spine in the chase.
Sameer: "SAF is Hiring, wanted a bowler who can take the 10th wicket in a match"
Dan: "More than twice the next best partnership. The other nine players really need to ask themselves some questions."
Alex: "Wow, the guy who mailed in pre-match and said he'd taken SA by 70 runs in an office sweepstake really knows his stuff." Michael, it was.
Brendon McCullum: "Wasn't great, batting let us down, bowling was okay. We were good in the field. Too many soft dismissals, little backbone at the end but far too little too late. We got to continue to get used to the conditions, short on adapting to this wicket ... we got a bit of hard work to do over the next two days. 280 at the half-way mark was okay, the bowlers kept coming back nicely in those last ten overs. It's a beautiful ground and a fantastic place, great crowd as well."
AB de Villiers: "It was a bit frustrating at the end, we lost Immi so I had to make up the overs too. I;ve been bowling a little bit, discussing the options, if I can land it it will be handy in certain games, I won't bowl in all the games. When Hashim bats like that it just sets up the whole line up to be aggressive ... another great hundred ... I thought Quinny started well as well, always important to get a good opening stand. We have about eight games down under and we want to win most of them."
Hashim Amla is the Man of the Match: "It felt good, it was difficult early on. The little things went out way and we managed to hang in there quite a while. Today the wicket was doing a bit and the guys were bowlign well so it did not allow us to go hard up front but we were able to push on in the middle ..."
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L Ronchi c du Plessis b Philander 79 (120m 83b 7x4 1x6) SR: 95.18
Philander's back to try and end this ...
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