South Africa vs New Zealand

mehro

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is anyone else following this match? good stuff by new zealand to restrict SA to 276 and awesome century from jacob oram. 81 from vettori, that guy's becmon a pretty decent batsman. while both astle and fleming failed to perform. hope they crack big ones sometime during the tour, love watching them bat.

anyone knows why shane bond isn't playing? injured again?
 
mehro said:
is anyone else following this match? good stuff by new zealand to restrict SA to 276 and awesome century from jacob oram. 81 from vettori, that guy's becmon a pretty decent batsman. while both astle and fleming failed to perform. hope they crack big ones sometime during the tour, love watching them bat.

anyone knows why shane bond isn't playing? injured again?
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Bond's got a knee injury
 
Mehro i believe the reason why New Zealand are on top of this test in the demoralisation of their spirit and cofidence in their own ability that took place during 6 consecutive tests where they were unable to get one victory despite the fact they were in the position to do so on quite a few occasions.

Once they start winning agin they will get on a streak but till they get thier next test win things could be very shaky. In a way New Zealand and Australia are also the worst two team to have travel to South Africa as well due to the similarity in the pitches that they play on.
 
mehro said:
should be a comfortable win for new zealand. end of third day and SA have a lead of 229 with 1 wicket in hand.
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Really shouldn't be enough as the pitches in South Africa do not deteriate that fast. I think New Zealand should win this game by around 6 wickets and they are rather safe as batting is their strength.
 
heffa said:
Really shouldn't be enough as the pitches in South Africa do not deteriate that fast. I think New Zealand should win this game by around 6 wickets and they are rather safe as batting is their strength.
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You must certainly not be watching this game. Anyone who's been watching would have seen the uneven bounce of this pitch. In other words, it does not have to deteriate, it already has!!!

The highest chase the Kiwi's has done to win in the 4th innings is 206 and the highest chase on tour is 164. They don't like batting last.

SA will win this game by 50 runs...

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Stretch said:
You must certainly not be watching this game. Anyone who's been watching would have seen the uneven bounce of this pitch. In other words, it does not have to deteriate, it already has!!!

The highest chase the Kiwi's has done to win in the 4th innings is 206 and the highest chase on tour is 164. They don't like batting last.

SA will win this game by 50 runs...

23/3
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The pitches had very little deteriation in the Australian series however you are right i have not been watching it i have only been following the scores.
 
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