This is the worst cricket match of all time.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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They should've taken him back. Your goal as a team should always be to be as competitive as possible, and they're a much more competitive team with AB.
Who cares if they still wouldn't have made the SFs or Final. They still would've offered a lot more to the tournament by potentially throwing a few spanners in everyone else's run through to the final
The commentators justifying this partnership 
Amla out btw. He should retire now.
THANK YOU mitch.
Big blow for NZ.
SA remind me of England at the last World Cup.
They seem totally unsuited to ODI cricket.
They seem totally unsuited to ODI cricket.
In Hindsight yes they should have but we don't know what went between the selectors and AB. Maybe they were not impressed the way he conducted himself or maybe they did ask him to come back in Dec/Jan time and AB refused. Maybe some of the SA players were not impressed with AB and his sudden news of retiring.We cannot completely blame the selectors for not having him back.
They have QDK, Faf, David Miller so I don't think this is quite true.
I think they're just lacking some real quality and a bit of confidence. Amla is sadly past his sell-by date
Well that England side still had Morgan, Buttler, Root and Moeen but the mentality was all wrong.
Exactly.
South Africa have some good players but they look like they're playing ODI cricket from 20 years ago the same way England looked massively behind the times in 2015.
Good tactical drop by Boult.
Miller.
Absolutely stinks the place up everytime he bats yet people keep assuming he's still some kind of destructive batsman. Living off past reputation.Still living off that Punjab's season. Guys like him should have been dropped and first asked to improve their batting. I am pretty sure SA must have good hitter in their domestic circuits. They could have easily have had Markram open the innings with De Kock and have a new talent in middle order. DUminy, Miller and Amla should be binned.Miller.
Is the pitch that bad?
Ball is coming nicely off the middle of the bat. Haven't seen any problem. SA have just been insanely timid.
This is very bizzare.
South Africa finally starting to attack.
Bangladesh are going to regret that NZ loss. This tournament isn't one for upsets
SA have been very disappointing .
NZ will most likely finish in the top 4...
Who is the best placed to cause an upset? Bangladesh? SL? Everyone outside the top 4 apart from Bangladesh look shit. And Bangladesh wont have enough for the top 4.
This has been pretty boring.. worse than the group stages of the CL.
NZ will most likely finish in the top 4...
Who is the best placed to cause an upset? Bangladesh? SL? Everyone outside the top 4 apart from Bangladesh look shit. And Bangladesh wont have enough for the top 4.
This has been pretty boring.. worse than the group stages of the CL.
This batting display would have been brilliant 30/40 years ago.
This innings would look outdated even in the 80s.
I've only seen a little but whilst the batting isn't anything special, it doesn't look a particularly good batting surface either..
Guess we'll see when New Zealand bats. Also, isn't this what we wanted? A pitch that (seemingly) isn't completely flat.
If Rabada bowls like how he did against us then NZ could be troubled.
242. Difficult pitch but NZ should be able to chase that.
van der Dussen looks class. Looks far better than anything I've seen from Makram.
I still think SA's bowling is one of the best. Sad Steyn got injured. Rabada, Ngidi are here to stay. Just get some quality batsmen and the SA would again be lethal.
Even then NZ just need to see him off which is what they are doing and attack the likes of Morris and Phehlukwayo
Damn, just seen Dhawans out. Will we even play Pant?
NZ look very comfortable. South Africa are toothless at the moment.
Not right away, Shankar won't be dropped after his display last match. Thought match vs Afghanistan is jus the type of game you would want to throw Pant in.
New Zealand will ease to a win. South Africa needed 20 overs to get to 73. New Zealand have reached that after 15.
Oh helloooo.
Oh helloooo.
To be honest, we could bin Jhadav. He won't bat or bowl much anyway.
Guptill
Surprised that doesn't happen more often. Batsmen are constantly way deep in their crease.
Bin Jhadav to play Shankar.
Bin Jhadav to play Shankar.
Can we drop Shankar now? Jhadavs done feck all in the few chances hes had in the tournament. Shankar, as much as I haven't rated him, had a very good outing.
Match is turning.
We only have one meaningful game left vs England. Rest are all crap games. We can perhaps try Pant in one game but otherwise need to stick to the same combination. Shankar likely stays ahead of Pant in the pecking order as he provides depth in bowling, which actually proved quite handy vs Pakistan.