*Official* South Africa in New Zealand

[nibbs]

its been raining solidly now for nearly 24 hours. no play today, and I'll be surprised if theres any tomorrow...

 

[Tim]

It's a shame because today's match would have been really good...but this storm has set in for the weekend unfortunately.

 

[Mingster]

No rain for an hour now.

Good...

 

[Tim]

lol I don't know where you live, but it's been absolutely pouring down since about 5 pm yesterday in Central Auckland.

Start time tommorow is 10.30, but the groundsmen will be up against it even if the skies clear.

 

[thierry henry]

Well, I live in Henderson and to be honest I was expecting real fireworks with this "storm", but it's just been occasional showers, just enough to keep everything wet. What's the forecast for tomorrow?

 

[Tim]

ocassional showers? it's wild over here in East Auckland...trees are knocked down etc.

 

[Mingster]

lol I don't know where you live, but it's been absolutely pouring down since about 5 pm yesterday in Central Auckland.

Start time tommorow is 10.30, but the groundsmen will be up against it even if the skies clear.

I live in the City, pretty close to Eden Park, and it didn't rain from 10am to 11.30am. I was pretty optimistic until bloody heavy rain just poured down...

They say tomorow in the PM, should have some fine breaks.

The game won't start at 10.30am IMO, I reckon 1pm is more around the start time, since the heavy rain will only clear in the morning.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

That shot was not as big as the commentators make it out to be.

It barely made it over the fence.

wow...I didn't know they used grand-stands as fences....

 

[Mingster]

wow...I didn't know they used grand-stands as fences....

The rope then.

It just went very very high.

 

[Kent]

A Dom Post writer this morning said it just cleared the boundary by centimetres. Which all seems very strange to me, because a slo-mo camera shot showed a ball sailing into bushes outside the ground.

 

[Mingster]

The weather seems to be clearing up.

There isn't a cloud in the sky at this moment...

Weird I know.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

A Dom Post writer this morning said it just cleared the boundary by centimetres. Which all seems very strange to me, because a slo-mo camera shot showed a ball sailing into bushes outside the ground.

are we talking about the same six here?

oh and mingster,thats NZ weather for you.

 

[Kent]

Was it not bushes? Anyway, I didn't see it bounce, let's put it that way.

 

[cbuts]

well the tail of cyclone ivy isnt meant to hit till tonight-tomorrow morning. cricket i think not.

 

[Mingster]

I do live in Auckland, about 10 mins walk to Eden Park actually BC.

At least the drizzle hasn't been as bad as yesterday, where it was just pouring down.

It's just light drizzle at the moment, and we should be getting some fine breaks in the afternoon.

I'm sure we will at least see some cricket today.

 

[Tim]

Are you kidding? there is absolutely no way there will be any cricket today.

 

[Mingster]

Are you kidding? there is absolutely no way there will be any cricket today.

Where do you live man?

It hasn't rained hard at all today yet, it's just been drizzling, and the forecast is for these to clear and for some fine breaks in the afternoon.

 

[Tim]

Out St Heliers way...well I can't believe it, it's now really sunny & there's going to be a 33 over game.

 

[nibbs]

193/8. Not bad, but I think we needed a bit more than that. SA will at least have to score at 6 an over, which is never easy.

Good to see Harris make a 50. If this is his final innings for NZ, I might not have sucha bad memories of him. He played really well. None of that boring pushing, poking crap that we had become used in the past couple of months.

 

[Mingster]

Out St Heliers way...well I can't believe it, it's now really sunny & there's going to be a 33 over game.

I told you mate...