Semi-Final #2- New Zealand v South Africa- Wednesday, March 5th- Lahore

[SkyBlue]

Chennai Super Kiwis is a thing mate.

They all went for pretty low bids tho. Glenn Philips was the shocker for me.

Boult is the only exception

 

[Moss]

Some of these NZ players deserve big IPL contracts. Definitely more deserving than English players. Just shows their lobby is not strong enough.

Phillips probably deserved more game time over Brook for SRH, other than that they’re doing pretty well for themselves in the IPL of late.

 

[BeeGee]

The best way to solve the death bowling issue is to bowl India out before the 45th over.

 

[Captcha]

the only non choker in choker team(david miller)

 

[Bahnz]

My winning lottery ticket

It's actually come to the point now that whenever I see a notification for a randomly timed rtb post in a period of extended batting dominance I automatically think "Here it comes..."

 

[SteveNZ]

Both good suggestions but I would still go with Mark Craig if he's available.

You'd have to pull him out of the river, Stephen Donald 2011 RWC style, to get him in

 

[thierry henry]

Bowlers over 6’5” combined for 25 overs, 205/0

 

[NZTailender]

Bowlers over 6’5” combined for 25 overs, 205/0

I feel like this pitch actually had a little bit more in it for the seamers early on but South Africa didn't really capitalize, but maybe I was reading it wrong. Jamieson and O'Rourke could take a bag or go at 7s.

what a visionary i am

 

[trundler]

Was gutted by Van Der Dussen's dismissal today. He was batting superbly. The SA contingent on here will vouch for my unceasing support for the great man but whilst I could not communicate my thinking him better than Babar to him, I did manage to get him to wave in my general direction. Hopefully I can get an autograph during PSL.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

It's actually come to the point now that whenever I see a notification for a randomly timed rtb post in a period of extended batting dominance I automatically think "Here it comes..."

I remember I did it one time and someone actually got out and some poster got mad because I was spoiling the game for them lmao

 

[Burgey]

Hard to beleive SA threw up all over themselves in a tournament semi-final.

Good luck to NZ in the final. Lift your game for once when it matters most ffs. Be a great result if they get up.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

what a visionary i am

you said they could have done well or badly and you were correct

 

[NZTailender]

you said they could have done well or badly and you were correct

They didn't do middling (1-50 for example) so my hedging wasn't entirely without risk

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

All this talk of the ‘Big Three’ of England, India and Australia, but meanwhile South Africa have reached the semis of the last 4 ICC events and are one game away from 3 finals in a row…should England be kicked out of the ‘Big Three’ in favour of SA?

New Zealand are invited to my Big Four

 

[Molehill]

New Zealand are invited to my Big Four

I don't Big 3 ever referred to ability on the pitch.

 

[Moss]

Was gutted by Van Der Dussen's dismissal today. He was batting superbly. The SA contingent on here will vouch for my unceasing support for the great man but whilst I could not communicate my thinking him better than Babar to him, I did manage to get him to wave in my general direction. Hopefully I can get an autograph during PSL.

Oversimplification maybe, but the game was decided two battles - VDD vs Santner and Ravindra vs Maharaj. VDD was playing wonderfully well and just getting into his groove, took a bit of magic from Santner to get rid of him. If he carried on to a hundred, who knows. NZ could well have been under the pump. Ravindra not allowing Maharaj to dictate things was pretty pivotal too - he got away with a couple of less-than-clean hits, it was a chance NZ took that paid major dividends, the difference between 300-310 and 360.