Key occasions
thirty second over: New Zealand 134-9 (Phillips 27, Henry 0) Henry not having fun with this – on the market so NZ can eek essentially the most out of their NRR.
thirty first over: New Zealand 133-9 (Phillips 26, Henry 0) Henry, he of the newly dodgy proper hamstring, is available in. He manages to defend Maharaj’s remaining 4 balls away. New Zealand, in addition to about to lose right now, in addition to about to lose three video games on the trot – now have damage worries to Henry, Southee, Williamson, Chapman and Ferguson
WICKET! Boult c Miller b Maharaj 9 (New Zealand 133-9)
Boult goes for broke, hitting excessive – however not lengthy sufficient, and Miller doesn’t drop these. A fourth for the tremendous Maharaj.
thirtieth over: New Zealand 132-8 (Phillips 25, Boult 9) A free hit! Jansen shouldn’t be impressed. I’ve seen that expression earlier than, once I recommend that folks ought to load the dishwasher earlier than going out. It’s a large yorker that Boult can solely dribble away.
twenty eighth over: New Zealand 128-8 (Phillips 23, Boult 8) Phillips and Boult taking a leaf out of the Mark Wood handbook. Phillips tonks Maharaj for six. Boult produces the depart of a match, squatting down gracefully with a smile.
twenty seventh over: New Zealand 119-8 (Phillips 15, Boult 7) I take that again, Henry is now seen within the dugout, helmeted and able to go. Boult dinks Jansen into the rope, and replays it with slightly twist of the wrist.
“Tanya,” John Starbuck. “You must have had an ignoble childhood to remember someone (an adult?) mean enough to use an Opal Fruit as a pass the parcel prize. Which cricket team would do that?” No, no, the Opal Fruit is in between every layer of paper – a sop to the expensive little kids who don’t win the primary prize (packet of felt tip pens and many others).
twenty seventh over: New Zealand 112-8 (Phillips 14, Boult 0) A nasty day on the workplace for New Zealand.
WICKET! Neesham b Maharaj 0 (New Zealand 111-8)
Ball of the World Cup? Maharaj fizzes one, with a twist of the wrist, into the pitch the place it does a double twisting Yurchenko into Neesham’s leg stump The injured Matt Henry gained’t bat, so South Africa want just one extra wicket.
twenty sixth over: New Zealand 109-7 (Phillips 12, Neesham 0) Jansen on a hat-trick – now the World Cup’s joint main wicket taker with Adam Zampa. Neesham survives the hat-trick and an lbw overview. A truculent Jansen sends one previous his nostril in his disappointment. Wicket maiden.
”I’ve simply walked in from work and checked the rating,” writes Jeremy Boyce. “Saffas as per in their innings, but what has happened to the Kiwi batters ? Did they suddenly “naturalise” as Englishmen in some sort of unusual reverse ferret ?” Colonialism by no means stops giving.
WICKET! Southee lbw Jansen 7 (New Zealand 109-7)
Very full, very straight. Southee tries to whip it away, misses and is hit on the left ankle. He evaluations – why not at this stage – however the know-how sends him on his manner.
twenty fifth over: New Zealand 109-6 (Phillips 12, Southee 7) Southee survives a slog-sweep into the evening. At this stage South Africa have been 121-1 – so not a lot in it runs smart, the wickets column proving the extra urgent concern.
twenty fourth over: New Zealand 106-6 (Phillips 11, Southee 5) Small prizes for New Zealand at this stage, like an opal fruit in a layer of move the parcel. Southee picks up 4 from a swipe off Ngidi by means of midwicket, fumbled on the rope.
twenty third over: New Zealand 100-6 (Phillips 10, Southee 0) Crumbling Black Caps. Santner had made room the ball earlier than to drive Maharaj for 4, however carried out by the flip this time. And Southee is the following man in – not Neesham.
WICKET! Santner b Maharaj 7 (New Zealand 100-6)
Maharaj, of Lancashire and Yorkshire, bangs his chest as Santner makes room and loses his stumps.
twenty second over: New Zealand 95-5 (Phillips 9, Santner 3) Accuracy from Ngidi, golden forearm guards, lime inexperienced boots. Only 5 runs from the final 4 overs as New Zealand relay the foundations.
twenty first over: New Zealand 93-5 (Phillips 8, Santner 2) Maharaj whistles by means of his over, only one from it.
twentieth over: New Zealand 91-5 (Phillips 7, Santner 1) A maiden from the just about immaculate Rabada.
nineteenth over: New Zealand 91-5 (Phillips 7, Santner 1) Mitchell solely offers himself a few balls earlier than trying to tuck into Maharaj’s crazy tempter – will New Zealand now play the web run price sport?
Hmmm, the final OBO’s angle to Matt Hancock will be summed up Marcus Abdullahi. “ I’d quite like to see Hancock facing Marshall, Thomson, Patterson and Roberts – ideally on the 1998 Jamaica test pitch and ideally wearing dodgy protective equipment provided by one of his cronies’ dodgy firms.”
WICKET! Mitchell c Miller b Maharaj 24(New Zealand 90-5)
Immediate reward for Maharaj, as Mitchell fast steps down the pitch, hits him excessive, excessive, and into the arms of Miller who catches on the leap with each arms above his head.
18th over: New Zealand 90-4 (Mitchell 24, Phillips 7) Phillips covers drives for 4, then superb by Rabada, probe after probe. South Africa overview a slip catch on the final minute – however no bat concerned.
seventeenth over: New Zealand 84-4 (Mitchell 24, Phillips 1) A curiously profligate over from Coetzee – who bowls 4 wides which de Kock stands and watches because it soars huge and excessive to the rope. Two stand and ship fours from Mitchell. Fifteen from the over.
A brutal summing up by Krishnamoorthy V:
“South Africa tends to choke regularly in crucial moments. New Zealand is known to be unlucky. India will bottle up that one important match and cry like babies. That leaves Australia the favorites to win this edition.”
sixteenth over: New Zealand 69-4 (Mitchell 14, Phillips 1) Hope Mitchell got here ready to vary water into wine. South Africa’s bowlers completely dominant.
WICKET! Latham c Maharaj b Rabada 4 (New Zealand 67-4)
Oh expensive, all trying a bit sticky for New Zealand now, as Latham pushes hopefully and may solely loop the ball to a gracious cowl.
fifteenth over: New Zealand 67-3 (Mitchell 13, Latham 4) Coetzee, headband, bustles/muscle groups in. Runs nonetheless laborious to return by. Kane Williamson, sidelined by that thumb damage, picks up his bag and prepares to depart the dugout. The noises are that he’ll most likely be match for what, if New Zealand lose right now, seems like being a humdinger of a sport towards Pakistan.
14th over: New Zealand 64-3 (Mitchell 12, Latham 1) A sensational stat from the tv: captains profitable the toss on this match have gained simply 9 out of 31 video games – Jos Buttler you’re in good firm. Tom Latham’s choice to subject first right now seems like making this stat much more stark. Just two from Rabada’s over.
thirteenth over: New Zealand 62-3 (Mitchell 11, Latham 1) A Mitchellesque shot. brings a Mitchellesque reward – a pull from a brief one – bang to the rope. Otherwise solely a single from Coetzee’s over.
twelfth over: New Zealand 57-3 (Mitchell 6, Latham 1) A treasured, skilful, maiden from Rabada . On the rope we see Coetzee dry himself with a burgundy towel straight from the visitor room, I’m afraid I can’t let you know why he doesn’t have an official inexperienced and gold one.
An e-mail wings in from Cressida Evans. Hello!
“Typing to you from sunny Salvador, pretending to work and following both the match (yay) and the Covid inquiry (boo). Have just seen this unexpected crossover:
“In her evidence to the inquiry Helen MacNamara said that at one point Matt Hancock, the health secretary, posed as a batsman while discussing Covid. “They bowl them at me, I knock them away,” Hancock mentioned. [insert ‘eyes rolling out my head’ emoji here]
“Just wondering if the OBO hive mind could let me know exactly where they think Mr Hancock would fit into England’s current WC team?”
eleventh over: New Zealand 57-3 (Mitchell 6, Latham 1)Tricky. difficult: New Zealand should rebuild alongside the pulsing rhythm of a creeping run-rate. Young falls, the ball after pulling Coetzee to the rope with vigour.
WICKET! Young c de Kock b Coetzee 33 (New Zealand 56-3)
Young squeezes his eyes tightly shut in disappointment, after edging a candy ball from Coetzee into the gloves.
tenth over: New Zealand 51-2 (Young 28, Mitchell 4), Mitchell 4) A bowling change, with Rabada changing Ngidi. Mitchell offers himself one ball to get his eye in earlier than taking part in an beautiful straight drive, head immaculately in place, down previous Rabada for 4.
ninth over: New Zealand 45-2 (Young 28) RR on his toes, meerkat like, by means of the covers with a smile – his first boundary. But that, my associates, is that for younger pretender. Jansen the ability play destroyer.
“Hi Tanya,” Alistair Connor, in Lyon, hi there!
“I note that NZ’s two defeats have been quite close. I expect them to get within a long shot again this time.
“My ambition is to see them get through to the final again — as in the rugby (a clear moral victory, as the All Blacks scored the only try), and as in 2019.
I’m a big fan of moral victories. It’s like when the other guy gets the girl, but you know you’re the better person. “
Fully on board with this.
WICKET! Ravindra c Coetzee b Jansen 9 (New Zealand 45 -2)
Jansen’s extra bounce does it again. Ravindra goes for gold, pulling, the top edge soars, but drops, into the hands of Coetzee on the rope.
8th over: New Zealand 38-1 (Young 27, Ravindra 4) Young flicks four off his legs to Ngidi’s first ball, four more off the next, a pie, which is dispatched high and away over slip. Win predictor currently gives New Zealand just a 14 per cent chance of victory. Some interesting commentary on the radio, that Rassie VDD isn’t on the field – something a few South African batters have done during the tournament.
7th over: New Zealand 28-1 (Young 17, Ravindara 4) No easy runs for New Zealand as Jansen continues to probe and poke.
‘Afternoon,” Hello, John Starbuck! “For the first time, I feel that this match is the most crucial so far. The end is, however distant, just in sight, so we can begin a countdown.” I do know what you imply, I can’t consider this match has been taking part in so lengthy for under Bangladesh to be eradicated. It would really feel incorrect for both of those groups to not make the semis – however the jeopardy begins right here.
sixth over: New Zealand 25-1 (Young 15, Ravindara 3) Young wriggles what seems a sure 4 by means of midwicket, good fielding on the rope from Hendricks saves a run. I ought to have talked about the group’s enthusiasm for Ravindra when he got here in – an actual star within the making.
fifth over: New Zealand 20-1 (Young 12, Ravindara 2) New Zealand say thanks very a lot for the 4 byes that jackknife Ravindra and whizz previous de Kock.
4th over: New Zealand 14-0 (Young 11, Ravindara 1) More parsimonious bowling from Ngidi – although Young does choose up 4 by means of the free fingers of Maharaj at cowl.
“I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s limited overs game between Dominic Cummings and Hugo Keith at the Baroness Hallett Stadium. Hugo was serving up bouncers and doosrahs and yorkers and beamers. Dom was fending them off with all parts of his body and his full repertoire of reverse sweeps and ramps and top edged hooks. And the sledging, oh the sledging, top ****ing class.” Yes, apparent seriousness of the matter apart, the Covid inquiry is an unimaginable breeding floor for massive dick swinging bristling machismo.
third over: New Zealand 8-1 (Young 6, Ravindara 0) A murals from Jansen first ball which leaves Conway foolishly bat dangling because it squeezes as shut as potential with out edging. But he’s picked up his man by the top of the over with one other pearler. Very tough work for the Kiwis to face Ngidi and Jansen very first thing, with a run price of greater than seven ticking away of their heads.
WICKET! Conway c Markram b Jansen 2 (New Zealand 8-1)
Glorious! Jansen swings the ball away, with vigourous bounce, and Conway is caught for room, edging the ball to a flying Jansen at slip.
2nd over: New Zealand 6-0 (Conway 1, Young 5) Ngidi begins with a cracking maiden, no freebies left from the trick or deal with field.
1st over: New Zealand 6-0 (Conway 1, Young 5) Jansen floats in, Conway drives uppishly, recklessly, and the ball prime edges right down to the fielder on the rope. Young performs and misses on the second however picks up a boundary subsequent , turning the ball off his boots and right down to the superb leg boundary.
My e-mail, btw, is tanya.aldred.freelance@guardian.co.uk – will try to repair it above too.
New Zealand want 358 to win
Here come the gamers. Marco Jansen, towers over the umpire, and collects the ball.
Do ship me your messages on this blowy/scorching/humid/moist November afternoon. Unofficial joint winner alongside January as essentially the most depressing months of the yr.*
Pitch report: Simon Doull friends on the floor. He says it seems the identical as when the sport began aside from the bowlers’ footmarks. He ponders the now mystical dew, says it begins to type round 25 overs so South Africa will attempt to use Maharaj earlier than then.
Thanks Rob! What an innings, these South Africans simply can’t put a foot incorrect on the minute – drawing a small internet curtain over the aberration towards the Dutch. Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen have been excellent, David Miller’s 53 off 30 deserves a hat tip and to Aiden Markram confronted one ball and hit it for six. The Kiwis should chase an intimidating 358, at greater than seven an over – although they made 383 within the close to miss towards Australia. Brazenly hoping for a win for my 11 yr outdated nephew who retreated to his room after the All Blacks misplaced final weekend. Not certain he’s come out but.
That’s it from me. Tanya Aldred might be with you for the New Zealand runchase – you may get in contact along with her by clicking this factor. Bye!
“Thank heavens one Lance Klusener isn’t in this team,” writes Krishnamoorthy V. “This SA team with LK in it would get 400+ every time.”
That’s a scarily good level. I used to be his file on the loss of life within the 1999 World Cup just lately and it was astonishing – one thing like a mean of 230 and a strike price of 140.
Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen made excellent centuries, with van der Dussen accelerating spectacularly on the loss of life. But by no means thoughts all that as a result of de Kock is talking to Harsha Bhogle.
They bowled rather well up entrance, particularly Boulty, and I felt fairly scratchy. I felt like I couldn’t discover my rhythm. I acquired a few messages from the blokes on the bench to simply bat by means of. I’m attempting to not give it away; I simply wanna hold batting. My profession’s coming to a end so I wish to bat as a lot as I can.
I hope 357 might be ok. If the wicket stays the identical I believe will probably be, however trying on the earlier video games the wicket does get higher underneath lights. We’re taking part in towards a extremely good aspect so let’s see what occurs.
Neesham’s final over price 19, which implies his figures are a grisly 5.3-0-69-1. South Africa did it once more on the loss of life, smacking 119 from the final 10 overs and 163 from the final 15. All that after Tom Latham grew to become the fourth captain at this World Cup to place them into bat.
New Zealand want 358 to win!
fiftieth over: South Africa 357-4 (Klaasen 15, Markram 6) Aiden Markram ends the innings in type, similar to Viv Richards in 1979, besides this was the primary ball he confronted. He picked a slower brief ball and hooked it over superb leg for six!
WICKET! South Africa 351-4 (Miller c Mitchell b Neesham 53)
Daryl Mitchell takes a terrific boundary catch to dismiss David Miller, who was in search of his second successive six. He took the catch, threw the ball up earlier than he stepped over the boundary sponge, then jumped again into play to take the catch for actual.
Miller goes for a savage 30-ball 53, which included 40 off the final 16. One ball remaining.
Godspeed Jimmy Neesham, for you shall bowl the final over.
forty ninth over: South Africa 339-3 (Miller 46, Klaasen 10) This is fascinatingly poised, which is one other manner of claiming no person actually is aware of who’s on prime.
Boult misses his yorker by a few inches, if that, and is blootered to huge long-off for 4 by Miller. It’s nonetheless a terrific over from Boult – till Klaasen cleaves his final supply over mid-off for six. Boult ends a particularly good spell with barely unjust figures of 10-1-49-1.
South Africa have scored 144 from the final 14 overs.
forty eighth over: South Africa 325-3 (Miller 40, Klaasen 2) David Miller got here in on the finish of the fortieth over. Yet he nonetheless had the nerve to play himself in: 13 from the primary 14 balls, then 28 from the following 10 – together with an enormous six over midwicket off Southee a second in the past.
“Did England really hit ‘only’ 76 sixes in 2019?” weeps Matt Dony. “I realise that’s a big ol’ number, but it felt like Morgan hit that on his own. I’m genuinely surprised.”
Yup. I’d need to double test to make certain however it was one thing like Morgan 22, Roy 12, Bairstow and Stokes 11, Buttler 8, Moeen 5, Woakes 3, Root 2, Plunkett and Rashid 1.
WICKET! South Africa 316-3 (van der Dussen b Southee 133)
Lovely bowling from Tim Southee, who bowls Rassie van der Dussen with a slower off-cutter. Van der Dussen heaved throughout the road, missed and was bowled through the pad. He goes for a punishing 133 from 118 balls, together with 65 from the final 35 deliveries.
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