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**Official** New Zealand in South Africa
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M0rphin3
International Debutant
Kane Williamson 145 vs South Africa (HQ) *FULL HIGHLIGHTS*
JIZZ
SA commies are absolute worst, @0:58 - "came off thickish outside edge"? Dafuq?
JIZZ
SA commies are absolute worst, @0:58 - "came off thickish outside edge"? Dafuq?
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ohnoitsyou
International Regular
OMG got up early to watch, but had to leave at 8, so cant believe we won it!
Kaneh
Kaneh
ohnoitsyou
International Regular
gah listening to Iain O'Brien and Jarrod Kimber at The Cricket Sadist Over raving about McCullums captaincy.
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MrPrez
International Debutant
Against a crazily weakened SA team? As in without Amla, de Villiers, Kallis, Steyn etc? Itstl.McCullum rates win amongst 'biggest ever' - Sport - NZ Herald News
McCullum hails it as a phenomenal achievement and one of NZ's best victories ever.
Looks like he wants to return home as captain with some glory.
Still, was a shocking loss from us. We should have won that even without the above players - ability wise we are easily superior imo. Typical choke.
Lets just stick to tests then...?
ohnoitsyou
International Regular
So what, we where missing Ryder, Taylor and Southee and everyone knows how much greater South Africa's domestic batting depth is than New Zealand's. There is a reason we play a team of fielders
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MrPrez
International Debutant
Yeah, point still stands. It's a match between two weakened teams - hardly the sort of match you'd classify as one of the greatest ever.
Briony
International Debutant
Think the player SA miss a lot in this format is Duminy because he knows how to pace an innings.Undoubtedly both teams were a bit depleted, perhaps SA more so it does make McCullum's comments about the phenomenal win, one of the greatest ever a bit disingenuous. His comments were made on the basis that NZ was ranked 9th and SA 1st. Obviously SA aren't ranked the top but he omits to mention that the batsmen who basically earned SA that rating were all missing. In reality SA blows hot and cold in this format and it's not a major surprise they lost a couple of matches, though were highly competitive in both. Furthermore NZ has always been more competitive in limited overs matches when their test team is struggling just as Sri Lanka on the basis of their test performances might have expected a thrashing but have more than held their own and could possibly win the series.
ohnoitsyou
International Regular
You forget that were ranked #9 with a very similar team for a reason
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Mike5181
International Captain
McCullum's talking more about the series win.
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
And from his own point of view, having been in the Black Caps for however long. Just because they're both weakened sides doesn't mean it can't rate as a great match for one individual involved. Context.
Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
Perhaps - I would think a world cup quarterfinal win would be more important to us in our memories than this victory. However take it for what it is - his young charges were humiliated in the tests and he is trying to build some confidence with his comments.
His comments are probably the tonic that is needed.
jcas0167
International Regular
All true, but I think we can forgive him being pretty excited about it. Given the controversy surrounding the captaincy change (in which he's come in for major criticism), leading to Taylor pulling out of the tour, the test thrashings, the awkward situation of Bond's letter criticising Hesson being leaked, I think many expected NZ to become a rabble who would get smashed regardless of who SA put out. To then get its first series win in SA ever, after all that's been going on, is a major upset. And as McCullum notes there were some exceptional things about the performance, with Williamson's batting and the fielding being terrific.
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
****ing superb shot placement. Threaded the field really well.
Kippax
Cricketer Of The Year
Nah it's unfortunate you interpreted it that way. All he said was 'the top team', he didn't specify one form, two forms, three forms.
