***Official***Match #32 - New Zealand vs South Africa - November 1st - Pune (D/N)

[King Kane]

Now Henry going off injured with Neesham replacing him, that's all we need.

 

[straw man]

mmmm well this ain't great... so just the XI fully fit players in the squad now

 

[Burgey]

Van der Dussen on the drive sometimes does this weird thing where he almost collapses his front elbow and pushes his wrists at/through the ball. Did it to Neesham’s first ball this over.

 

[Pup Clarke]

When was the last time Kane bowled in an international?

 

[_Ed_]

So far, this is going pretty much how I'd feared it was going to if SA batted first.

And now it's worse.

 

[straw man]

mmmm well this ain't great... so just the XI fully fit players in the squad now

otoh, Ish Sodhi has clearly added voodoo to his repertoire

 

[Athlai]

Really need the wicket before these two go ballistic

 

[Burgey]

Ravindra is going to need to come back and do a job here. They’ll want ideally another five at least out of him at a decent E/R so Latham still has some flexibility at the back end if a front liner takes more tap.

 

[Moss]

When was the last time Kane bowled in an international?

The last instance I properly recall was the Edgbaston game vs Pakistan in WC 2019 - NZ didn’t pick Sodhi on a pitch which ended up taking spin, and Santner wasn’t finding his length. KW even got a couple of wickets I think.

 

[Athlai]

Is Phillips spending all his free time bowling?

 

[King Kane]

When was the last time Kane bowled in an international?

I can't see him bowling when he isn't even playing.

We will need Neesham and Mitchell or Ravindra to make up the rest of Henry's overs if he can't come back on.

 

[TheBrand]

The last instance I properly recall was the Edgbaston game vs Pakistan in WC 2019 - NZ didn’t pick Sodhi on a pitch which ended up taking spin, and Santner wasn’t finding his length. KW even got a couple of wickets I think.

Pretty sure he bowled vs Aussie at Lords as well, might have got a wicket too. I was pretty hammered on champagne by that point though so memory hazy.

 

[straw man]

This is looking very much like a 350 score.

 

[Neil Young]

What a platform they have here.

 

[Athlai]

Pommie: South Africa aren't scoring fast enough, unless they are.

Dazzling analysis that

 

[Moss]

We will need Neesham and Mitchell or Ravindra to make up the rest of Henry's overs if he can't come back on.

Also means they may have to hold Boult back for the slog, the only other options are Southee and Neesham.

 

[thierry henry]

What the **** is Mbangwa talking about? They’re accelerating smoothly to a huge score and he’s pontificating about why we’ve managed to keep them quiet?

 

[centurymaker]

So far, this is going pretty much how I'd feared it was going to if SA batted first.

It was quite obvious that bowling first against SA is a bad idea.

But Nz can chase down whatever SA set as it is a high scoring ground, although ball is not coming on to the bat as easily

 

[thierry henry]

They’ve scored at 6.5RPO from the 15th over onwards ffs

 

[Athlai]

What the **** is Mbangwa talking about? They’re accelerating smoothly to a huge score and he’s pontificating about why we’ve managed to keep them quiet?

Tbf keeping teams from accelerating against us in the middle overs has been a bit of a point of difference between NZ and most sides. But yeah pretty lame.