1st Semi Final - New Zealand v South Africa (24th March)

[viriya]

Your point is 5/38 > 5/50 yes?

It's just not that big of a difference to matter.. Having to chase 7/over for just 38 overs trumps that.

 

[Chewie]

Umpires haven't come onto the field yet though. Probably too busy listening to Stan walker

 

[smash84]

come on, i would like to see ABDV bat out today

 

[Prince EWS]

We begin losing overs only after an hour's play is lost. In case the match is not completed today we have a reserve day tomorrow with play resuming from where it stops

so if we don't say get any play in today will that mean NZ will come into bat tomorrow and will play only 20 overs ? ..they should ideally have restarted fresh tomorrow

Nah, they only revise the overs when it actually looks like they're going to get out there.

So if it gets to a point where there are less than 20 overs of time left today and they still haven't gone back out there, they will go home and come back tomorrow with South Africa batting out the remainder of their overs and then NZ attempting to chase it down in the full 50.

If NZ come out today to face 20 overs and go off again after 1 ball though, they they'll face 19.5 overs tomorrow.

 

[Chewie]

Covers are coming off

 

[Contra]

I'm going to reiterate one last time for people that don't follow NZ cricket.

Corey Anderson has been our specialist death bowler for well over a year. Grant Elliott is a t20 specialist at the death as well.

Now I'm not expecting 5 an over from them or anything but it's nothing like bowling Ishant Sharma at the death.

How much do you think those guys will go for today assuming we get full 50 overs?

 

[smash84]

so how long does it generally take for play to resume once covers come off?

 

[Blakey]

Covers coming off.

Play expected to begin in <15

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hope Faf tons up. Has played a damn good knock... Kept his head despite a slow start.

 

[Hurricane]

Covers are coming off

dissapointing I wanted the rain reduction!

 

[Prince EWS]

I think the break will be awesome for NZ regardless of any recalculations anyway. That partnership had so much momentum.

 

[Zinzan]

They can probably get out in 15 minutes or 6pm, in which case we'll probably see 2 overs reduced.

 

[Chewie]

Nope they've put the pegs back in and it's started raining more

 

[CricAddict]

dissapointing I wanted the rain reduction!

Your wish is granted. Rain has got heavier again.

 

[anil1405]

I think the break will be awesome for NZ regardless of any recalculations anyway. That partnership had so much momentum.

**** yeah. The partnership threatened to do more damage. Shame that they would not have the same momentum now.

 

[Zinzan]

Nope they've put the pegs back in and it's started raining more

Serious or trolling us?

 

[Swingpanzee]

Yeah if anything's gonna favour NZ it's not so much any sort of reduction as the fact that SA have been robbed of their momentum, we need to capitalize over this fact and take wickets and restrict them to a manageable target. Tough ask but hey it's the WC semi.

 

[Hurricane]

Your wish is granted. Rain has got heavier again.

yuss!

But I want my cake to eat too because I don't want to have to come back tomorrow

 

[Blakey]

A mate is at the ground and either really ****ty at reading the skies or really drunk.

 

[hendrix]

Your point is 5/38 > 5/50 yes?

It's just not that big of a difference to matter.. Having to chase 7/over for just 38 overs trumps that.

Yes, that's my point. Catching up on run-rate shouldn't matter so much. If you can see off the first 5 in a 50 over match you're on your way. You don't have that luxury in a 38 over match.

Really though, DL is a pretty good system; there's likely not much difference between 264 from 38 and 350 from 50.

I just don't know whether SA would get 350.