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NEW ZEALAND 253/9 (50 OVERS)
- Brendon McCullum56 (67)
- Kane Williamson55 (69)
- Robin Peterson2/45 (10)
- Lonwabo Tsotsobe2/41 (10)
SOUTH AFRICA 254/4 (45.2 OVERS)
- Faf du Plessis*66 (49)
- AB de Villiers*106 (106)
- Kyle Mills1/27 (7)
- Rob Nicol1/43 (5)
Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Abhishek Purohit
That is it from us for this game for the moment. Read Andrew Fernando's match report here. This is Abhishek Purohit signing off. Cheers
AB de Villiers is the Man of the Match. AB: "We did really well in the field to restrict them. They had a couple of partnerships, but we kept getting wickets, and that is where we won the game. It was a slowish kind of wicket, and it is important to build pressure on these kind of wickets. JP felt a bit of pressure early on, he did not hit it as well as he would have liked, but he played an important knock. Faf did extremely well. I thought I constructed my innings well which was difficult on this pitch and in these conditions."
Brendon McCullum: "We thought 250 was competitive, but we would have had to bowl exceptionally well. In hindsight, we needed someone to get a big hundred, like AB did for them. No regrets in batting first though. We were looking to take that batting Powerplay a bit early, but we kept losing wickets. You cannot allow world-class players to get into the game, and we allowed AB to do that."
They just did not have enough runs on the board, New Zealand, with the kind of batting line-up South Africa have. AB de Villiers was always in control and New Zealand could never stop the boundaries from coming when they needed to. Faf du Plessis will never forget what happened in Dhaka that evening in March 2011, but this innings will give him a lot of confidence, especially the way he finished the game with a burst of big strokes.
MrGarreth: "9 of AB's 13 100s have come since 2010 at an average of 77.75. Dont get much better than that!"
END OF OVER:45 | 12 Runs | SA: 252/4 (2 runs required from 30 balls, RR: 5.60, RRR: 0.40)
- AB de Villiers106 (106b)
- Faf du Plessis65 (47b)
- Tim Southee10-0-64-1
- Doug Bracewell10-1-61-1
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