***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

[NasserFan207]

Good work NZ. Now grind them after lunch, don't let them back in

 

[_Ed_]

VICTORY IS OURS! ALL HAIL THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!

That better?

Haha. The nervous silence has less potential to come back and bite us.

 

[Dick Rockett]

Haha. The nervous silence has less potential to come back and bite us.

Pffft, like it matters. What's gonna happen? Some spotty teenager on the internet will say "I told you so"

 

[_Ed_]

There's venom in those spots.

 

[Jacknife]

I'm sure Philander was in South Africa's ODI side the last time they toured England, and he looked absolutely ****house.

Yes he was and about 2 stone heavier as well if I remember rightly.

 

[SteveNZ]

Okay, that it explains it - cheers for that. Looks pretty streamlined now and one hell of a bowler, on a pitch that no one else could find anything out of.

You can't beat Dunners on a good day.

 

[Scaly piscine]

NZ in the driver's seat atm. Steyn hasn't been taking as many wickets of late.

NZ should aim for a lead of 200 or so and unless SA improve on the dismal display yesterday, they will surely go into Hamilton one down.

There doesn't look to be too much in the pitch so Martin has outbowled the Saffers to this point with a brilliant burst.

Hmm you've just had one guy dropped and the other guy bowled in the first over after lunch - an over delivered by South Africa's 3rd seamer.

If the teams were different then yes the team batting now would be in a great position. But South Africa can really bowl and New Zealand can't bat.

 

[_Ed_]

Not an ideal start. Hope Taylor has a good day.

 

[Blakey]

NZ in the driver's seat atm. Steyn hasn't been taking as many wickets of late.

NZ should aim for a lead of 200 or so and unless SA improve on the dismal display yesterday, they will surely go into Hamilton one down.

There doesn't look to be too much in the pitch so Martin has outbowled the Saffers to this point with a brilliant burst.

Some serious amateur hour anti-jinxing this. SA with the best attack in the world, NZ with pretty much the worst batting in the world and you think NZ is in the drivers seat? Get real!

Honestly pretty laughable.

 

[NasserFan207]

Some serious amateur hour anti-jinxing this. SA with the best attack in the world, NZ with pretty much the worst batting in the world and you think NZ is in the drivers seat? Get real!

Honestly pretty laughable.

Exaggeration on both sides tbh

 

[Zinzan]

Some serious amateur hour anti-jinxing this. SA with the best attack in the world, NZ with pretty much the worst batting in the world and you think NZ is in the drivers seat? Get real!

Honestly pretty laughable.

lol, almost borderline trolling tbh. Either that or a complete ignorance of happenings in Test cricket in the last decade.

 

[NasserFan207]

This has been accurate bowling from Morkel this spell, unusual tbh

 

[Ausage]

Not batting too badly ATM though. Taylor looking pretty good.

 

[_Ed_]

That's good to hear. I was wondering how he'd go, considering he's had a bit of a lack of time in the middle lately.

 

[Zinzan]

Lol Barry, fair crack of the whip. This partnership hasn't been all that lucky & the wicket that has fallen after lunch was a 'drag-on'.

 

[Flem274*]

What did Barry say?

Waiting for this partnership to go horribly wrong btw.

 

[Flem274*]

cricinfo taking ages to update. Getting nervous.

edit: ah its drinks

 

[Zinzan]

What did Barry say?

Waiting for this partnership to go horribly wrong btw.

Just about how incredibly unlucky SA have been throughout this partnership as if batsmen aren't entitled to play & miss a couple of times in an hour.

 

[Flem274*]

Someone should remind him of Rudolph's innings imo.

Barry doesn't annoy me anymore, because you know when he bitches he's hurting.

 

[Ausage]

You're always going to need a bit of luck facing Steyn. There's a really good ball around every corner.