South Africa and New Zealand did battle in the 1st T20 International at Kingsmead, Durban at 18:00 SA Time on Friday 21 December 2012.
This was the Live Game Article for the match.
South Africa won with ease, with 7.5 overs to spare (47 balls). The South African bowlers did the trick, bowling the New Zealanders out for a poultry 86 runs in 18.2 overs. New Zealand took the 1st South African wicket without a single run on the board for South Africa, but Faf du Plessis and Davids steadied the ship, untill Davids perished on 20, leaving it to young Quinton de Kock and Faf du Plessis to finish the New Zealanders off in style.
New Zealand: 86 All Out (18.2 overs)
South Africa: 87 / 2 (12.1 overs)
Match over
- New Zealand in South Africa T20 International Series – 1st T20 International
- T20 International No. 293 / 2012 / 2013 season
- Played at Kingsmead, Durban
- 21 December 2012 – day / night (20-over match)
| New Zealand innings (20 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RJ Nicol | c †de Kock b Kleinveldt | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| PG Fulton | c Morris b Steyn | 9 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 69.23 | |
| BB McCullum*† | c Steyn b Kleinveldt | 6 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 54.54 | |
| JEC Franklin | c †de Kock b McLaren | 0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| C Munro | c & b Morris | 23 | 34 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 127.77 | |
| Corey J Anderson | c Levi b Morris | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| NL McCullum | b Peterson | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| JDS Neesham | b Peterson | 10 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 142.85 | |
| DAJ Bracewell | not out | 21 | 32 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 84.00 | |
| RM Hira | c Kleinveldt b Steyn | 5 | 19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| MJ McClenaghan | c Peterson b Kleinveldt | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 2) | 3 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 18.2 overs; 83 mins) | 86 | (4.69 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-9 (Nicol, 2.1 ov), 2-19 (Fulton, 3.6 ov), 3-19 (BB McCullum, 4.5 ov), 4-27 (Franklin, 6.2 ov), 5-34 (Anderson, 7.3 ov), 6-36 (NL McCullum, 8.5 ov), 7-54 (Neesham, 10.4 ov), 8-60 (Munro, 11.6 ov), 9-81 (Hira, 17.1 ov), 10-86 (McClenaghan, 18.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| R McLaren | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 6.75 | |||
| DW Steyn | 3 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4.33 | (1w) | ||
| RK Kleinveldt | 3.2 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 5.40 | |||
| CH Morris | 3.4 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 5.18 | (1w) | ||
| RJ Peterson | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2.00 | |||
| F du Plessis | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| South Africa innings (target: 87 runs from 20 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RE Levi | c Fulton b McClenaghan | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| H Davids | b Hira | 20 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 153.84 | |
| F du Plessis* | not out | 38 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 118.75 | ||
| Q de Kock† | not out | 28 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 121.73 | ||
| Extras | (w 1) | 1 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 12.1 overs) | 87 | (7.15 runs per over) | |||||
| To bat F Behardien, DA Miller, RJ Peterson, R McLaren, DW Steyn, CH Morris, RK Kleinveldt |
| Fall of wickets 1-0 (Levi, 0.5 ov), 2-45 (Davids, 5.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| MJ McClenaghan | 3 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 6.66 | |||
| DAJ Bracewell | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 10.50 | (1w) | ||
| RM Hira | 3 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 5.00 | |||
| Corey J Anderson | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 | |||
| NL McCullum | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| RJ Nicol | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 | |||
| JDS Neesham | 0.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12.00 |
| Match details |
| Toss: New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat |
| T20I debuts Corey J Anderson, MJ McClenaghan, C Munro and JDS Neesham (New Zealand); H Davids, Q de Kock and CH Morris (South Africa) Player of the match tba |
| Umpires JD Cloete and S George TV umpire AT Holdstock Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire BG Jerling |
| Match notes |
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December 21st, 2012 at 20:06 SAST
Silly shot by Davids, he didn’t need to be a hero by Faf!
December 21st, 2012 at 20:08 SAST
And Davids hits a great shot straight, then decideds to hit across the line, out Stupid stupid
December 21st, 2012 at 20:08 SAST
101 @ Just For Kicks:
Hello Mud Island dweller!
December 21st, 2012 at 20:09 SAST
@ Just For Kicks:
Exactly, all he had to do was play straight, and he does not have to hit a boundary with every ball
December 21st, 2012 at 20:10 SAST
De Kock hits straight over long off and it’s 4
December 21st, 2012 at 20:10 SAST
De Kock still looks very young… just off the nappies
December 21st, 2012 at 20:10 SAST
And Good evening JFK
December 21st, 2012 at 20:11 SAST
Pooms must be grabbing a granny or something
December 21st, 2012 at 20:12 SAST
11 off the 7th over
December 21st, 2012 at 20:13 SAST
SA 57 / 2 after 7 overs, need only 30 more
December 21st, 2012 at 20:20 SAST
SA 65 / 2 after 10 overs, need 22 more runs
December 21st, 2012 at 20:21 SAST
4 by Faf off the 1st ball of the 11th over, then a single
December 21st, 2012 at 20:22 SAST
Faf is reading the pitch well, thus not silly shots by him
December 21st, 2012 at 20:23 SAST
SA 74 / 2 after 11 overs
December 21st, 2012 at 20:26 SAST
SA need 4 runs from 50 balls… hehehehe
Almost the end of the 12th over
December 21st, 2012 at 20:27 SAST
85 / 2 after 12 overs
December 21st, 2012 at 20:28 SAST
SA win after 12.1 overs
Hell, I was one ball out in my prediction… hahaha
December 21st, 2012 at 20:29 SAST
Game set and match, Faf does the job with De kock
December 21st, 2012 at 20:30 SAST
@ grootblousmile:
Well done old chap lol
December 21st, 2012 at 20:43 SAST
OK, hang-bal tyd….
Cheers
Goooooooooi Mieliessssssss
December 21st, 2012 at 20:45 SAST
Cricket was a bit disappointing was expecting more of a match than that. Excellent crowd too, think they would have like it to have gone on longer no doubt.
Well done to our Proteas.
December 21st, 2012 at 20:48 SAST
108 @ Sharks_forever:
December 21st, 2012 at 21:02 SAST
@ Puma:
Hehehehehe bro
December 21st, 2012 at 21:14 SAST
122 @ Sharks_forever:
Wanted to blog while the crici was on, but just got lazy and relaxed back and watched without blogging….. LOL.
Must have been a disappointment to the big crowd that came out to watch. Don’t enjoy that type of cricket if there is no contest. Eventually got chatting to my daughter who is here from CT for a few days until after Xmas.
December 21st, 2012 at 21:17 SAST
Okay will catch up tomorrow. I log on and everyone has logged off already………
This cricket felt as quick as a 7′s game…..