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New Zealand vs South Africa, Match 25, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - CommentaryNZ vs RSA, Match 25, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - Commentary

New Zealand won by 4 wkts
South Africa
241/6(49)
New Zealand
245/6(48.3)
PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Harsha Bhogle: Another World Cup, another heartbreak for South Africa. Their story of the World Cup has been a long running tear-jerker.
Harsha Bhogle: Another World Cup, another heartbreak for South Africa. Their story of the World Cup has been a long running tear-jerker.
Harsha Bhogle: South Africa's great strength as an outstanding one-day side over the years lay in the fact that they gave the opposition nothing. Everything had to be earned. They will look back at today and wonder about the little things that cost them.
Harsha Bhogle: South Africa's great strength as an outstanding one-day side over the years lay in the fact that they gave the opposition nothing. Everything had to be earned. They will look back at today and wonder about the little things that cost them.
Harsha Bhogle: What a brilliant player, what an understated man. The player you want in your team under pressure. Williamson.
Harsha Bhogle: What a brilliant player, what an understated man. The player you want in your team under pressure. Williamson.
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Cricbuzz LIVE: Match 25, New Zealand v South Africa, Post-match show

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Phehlukwayo to Williamson, SIX, wow! Ton for the skipper! And whatta shot to bring it up. Slower delivery and has been slog swept over deep mid. This man. Take a bow. Ton of the tournament? Picked the bones out of that dead meat of a slower delivery. The scores are level!

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Phehlukwayo to Williamson, SIX, wow! Ton for the skipper! And whatta shot to bring it up. Slower delivery and has been slog swept over deep mid. This man. Take a bow. Ton of the tournament? Picked the bones out of that dead meat of a slower delivery. The scores are level!

Harsha Bhogle: Game of the tournament. Game that will be remembered beyond the tournament.
Harsha Bhogle: Game of the tournament. Game that will be remembered beyond the tournament.
Sandeep Raja: "Wow! This game has been an epic roller-coaster. Just when you thought NZ has it, they lose another wicket!"
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Lungi Ngidi to Williamson, FOUR, touch of genius! That was deft. Cute. Adjectives on a loop mode. Slower one outside off and was guided away past the man at short third for a four. Should the third man been on the fence for the final ball? Rabada in the last over was asked of the same by his skipper. Williamson showed his presence of mind though. Superb percentage shot and got them four runs

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Lungi Ngidi to de Grandhomme, out Caught by du Plessis!! The beam balance shifts again. Length delivery, slower one and was heaved away down the ground. The man at long-off takes it. Was that shot needed? But then he was the man who has got the Kiwis in this comfortable position. de Grandhomme backed himself to clear the fence I suppose but ended up mistiming it. Faf under pressure doesn't crumble and takes it. de Grandhomme c du Plessis b Lungi Ngidi 60(47) [4s-5 6s-2]

Ramki: "Three dropped catches, a caught behind not appealed, a missed run out opportunity. I am afraid I am going to utter the c-word."
Arya Harish: "CdG doing a Grant Elliot today, stood tall to the occasion when team needed the match. Much deserved half century. A great contest between two evenly poised sides after lot of one-siders this WC."
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Lungi Ngidi to de Grandhomme, FOUR, SA in big games have cold feet..and hands as well. That was short, pulled away and Miller at deep mid dived forward to take it and missed it. Rabada at deep square dived over the ball and allowed the ball to go to the fence. Four vital runs

Ganesh Katigar: Poor bowling show from Phehlukwayo in a low scoring affair, Faf certainly missed the 6th bowler in the attack (Markram)!!
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Chris Morris to de Grandhomme, FOUR, one of the most vital fifties of this tourney. The highlights package after the tournament ends has to feature this knock. 52 off 39 balls in a game where run scoring has been tough. But it has been one way traffic for de Grandhomme. See the ball, hit the ball. That was in the slot and was heaved away over mid-wicket for a four. One bounce and into the fence

Vijit Mahaur: "Only Grandhomme 'Kane' take New Zealand home."
Abdullah: "Must say KW is class apart. Playing the role of sheet anchor perfectly well. No risky shot, just business as usual."
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Phehlukwayo to de Grandhomme, FOUR, and the steer goes away to the third man fence for a four! Slower delivery and de Grandhomme gets it off the outer half of the bat to get it past short third man

Saahith Guptha: "SA were not able to capitalised the chances that they had. How little things can impact the game!!"
Spikky Roh: "The pitch is indeed very slow, KG needs to realize this and bowl even slower for a change!!"
Sagar Kamble: "This match is turning out to be a one more classic. Repeat of 2015 semis. Plenty of action in Tahir's last over, now again the run-out in Rabada's over."
mukul chilwal: "SA have to win this one not just for their campaign but for making WC19 more interesting."
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Rabada to de Grandhomme, FOUR, decks in from a length, de Grandhomme forces the push, gets the edge and the ball flies past the keeper for a four. Where is the slip, Faf? Might not have carried though. Fifty of the partnership comes up. 37 of them have come from de Grandhomme. Game changing knock for sure

Rama: "Great recovery by NZ after some very tight bowling by SA. It was important that they keep wickets intact for the last 10 overs, and they have done that. Advantage NZ!"
Harsha Bhogle: Riveting match. 3 overs from Phehlukwayo and 2 from Morris the key ones. NZ will look to target those and take what they get from Ngidi and Rabada. For SA, Rabada has to produce wickets in his two overs. Rub of the green with SA at the moment.
Harsha Bhogle: Riveting match. 3 overs from Phehlukwayo and 2 from Morris the key ones. NZ will look to target those and take what they get from Ngidi and Rabada. For SA, Rabada has to produce wickets in his two overs. Rub of the green with SA at the moment.
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Rabada to de Grandhomme, SIX, drops it short! Why KG? That has been dispatched away over deep square. Rocked back and slammed it with a merciless pull

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Cricbuzz Comm Box: Match 25, New Zealand v South Africa, 2nd inn, Over No.35

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Chris Morris to Williamson, FOUR, and that's the pressure release shot! The Morris syndrome gets to Chris Morris i.e to bowl a bad ball per over. Short, outside off and Williamson dragged the short ball through mid-wicket for a crunching shot. Four more

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Chris Morris to de Grandhomme, FOUR, CDG still has the IPL mode on. On the pads, clipped away aerially and one bounce into the deep mid fence. Stylish!!!

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Chris Morris to Neesham, out Caught by Amla!! Superb captaincy! The slip was positioned and the slip nets the wicket. Length delivery going across, Neesham slashes and gifts a catch to the man at widish slip. SA are back in this. Morris exults in delight. Whatta good catch from Amla. Neesham c Amla b Chris Morris 23(34) [4s-3]

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Phehlukwayo to Neesham, FOUR, overcooks this and Neesham has a lot of power in his bottom-hand to smash it powerfully down the ground

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Phehlukwayo to Williamson, FOUR, edged. Past slip. Phehlukwayo finally gets in a legal delivery, but Williamson in his quest to throw his hands out at the width can't quite time it right, but the streak will fly fast past a diving Amla at fly slip

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Tahir to Neesham, FOUR, a bit of a chipped slog-sweep. He gets one in the slot and Neesham's sittig down to loft it uppishly, checking his bat swing as he places it well into cow corner

Prasanta Swain: Good call not to take the DRS. You really can't trust Tahir much when it comes to LBW calls. #CSKfan
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Exodus of SA players has little to do with local system - Zaheer Khan

Saahith Guptha: What the hell just happened!! NZ 4 wickets down. I think we are in for an exciting match.
Umar: This is first real test for NZ. They have beaten comparatively weaker sides so far.
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Chris Morris to Williamson, FOUR, ah, neat. It may be getting tricky, but Williamson will still find a way to make the struggle look stylish. He undoubtedly has the best on-drive in cricket, and so why not show off. Full and he leans in to the pitch of this in punching it straight back, with mid-on just too square

Harsha Bhogle: Excellent match going on in CWC19. South Africa hanging on to their stay at the World Cup. Try telling that to NZ but will be excellent for the tournament and for such an iconic side like SA.
Harsha Bhogle: Excellent match going on in CWC19. South Africa hanging on to their stay at the World Cup. Try telling that to NZ but will be excellent for the tournament and for such an iconic side like SA.
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Chris Morris to Latham, out Caught by de Kock!! Another tickle. And Morris is on a dream run here. He hits the back of a length and gets it to jag across an already squared up Latham - who's waiting tentatively on the back foot with the bat hung outside - only to run it down the keeper's throat off the outside of his splice. That 241 all of a sudden seems plenty. Latham c de Kock b Chris Morris 1(4)

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Tahir to Williamson, FOUR, the wide teasing toppie. Williamson goes to chop, gets too close, too low and has the cramped top-edge flying past slip, fine enough too

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Chris Morris to Ross Taylor, out Caught by de Kock!! Tickle, strangle and the twist. Morris is visibly embarrassed with this one himself, with this slipping down leg off the length that usually is called a half volley. Taylor flicks, like most do, and kisses the outside of it to the keeper. A hit-wicket that on another day might not have been and now getting caught down leg .. somebody up there is undoing the tears of 2011 and 2015. Ross Taylor c de Kock b Chris Morris 1(2)

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Cricbuzz Comm Box: Match 25, New Zealand v South Africa, 2nd inn, Over No.15

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Phehlukwayo to Williamson, FOUR, touch short, Williamson saw that coming. The right-handed batsman swivels across and pulls it off the inside edge. The ball runs away fine and beats the long leg fielder comfortably

Mitesh: "SA should win this match to keep the tournament open." -- The doors are closing slowly IMHO.
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Phehlukwayo to Williamson, FOUR, class! Gets one in the slot wide of off - the half-volley and the skipper doesn't need second invitation to put it away. Leans into a drive and caresses it wide of mid-off

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Phehlukwayo to Guptill, FOUR, nowhere close to the middle, but Guptill will get four. Nips in a touch and Guptill was playing a cover drive. The ball takes the inside part of the bat and runs away through the mid-wicket region. Has enough legs in the end to go to the fence

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Chris Morris to Williamson, FOUR, Morris pitches it up, too full and Williamson takes heavy toll of it. Relies on timing and caresses the straight drive beating mid-off to his right

Divyesh Kanabar: If Guptill plays a decent knock, it will be an uphill task for SA to win this match.
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South Africa shouldn't allow tentativeness to seep in - Zaheer Khan

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Lungi Ngidi to Guptill, FOUR, another half-volley at 140kph. Guptill plonks his left leg forward and plays another drive with a straight bat. Ngidi got a hand to it in his followthrough, but the ball has enough legs to run away to the fence. The mid-off fielder gave a chase, in vain

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Lungi Ngidi to Guptill, FOUR, another half-volley at 140kph. Guptill plonks his left leg forward and plays another drive with a straight bat. Ngidi got a hand to it in his followthrough, but the ball has enough legs to run away to the fence. The mid-off fielder gave a chase, in vain

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Lungi Ngidi to Guptill, FOUR, glorious shot! Slightly overpitched and Guptill plays a superbly-timed straight drive. Drilled past the bowler and mid-off was a mere spectator

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Lungi Ngidi to Guptill, FOUR, glorious shot! Slightly overpitched and Guptill plays a superbly-timed straight drive. Drilled past the bowler and mid-off was a mere spectator

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Lungi Ngidi to Guptill, FOUR, first bad ball from Ngidi. Strays a pitched up delivery on the pads and 139kph and that's easy pickings for Guptill. The right-handed opener uses his wrists and flicks it away through mid-wicket with ease

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Lungi Ngidi to Guptill, FOUR, first bad ball from Ngidi. Strays a pitched up delivery on the pads and 139kph and that's easy pickings for Guptill. The right-handed opener uses his wrists and flicks it away through mid-wicket with ease

Ravi Gohil: "If RSA takes early wickets, they can put NZ under extreme pressure." -- Okay. One done.
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Rabada to Munro, out Caught&Bowled!! Rabada strikes! The angle - round the wicket - does the trick. Shortish ball at 146kph, Munro is cramped for room and he looked to use the angle to his advantage. He hopped and was trying to tuck it into the leg-side. All he managed was an inside edge onto his thigh pad which popped up in the air as he was late on the shot. Rabada continues to run forward in his followthrough and completes a straightforward catch. The South Africans are pumped up! Munro c and b Rabada 9(5) [4s-2]

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Rabada to Munro, FOUR, back-to-back fours! Nothing wrong with the ball. A length ball at 147kph marginally outside off, Munro is on the walk and he times his punch superbly. The placement was spot-on too - between cover and mid-off. Exquisite

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Rabada to Munro, FOUR, cracking shot! An overpitched wide-ish delivery at 148kph, allows the southpaw to free his arms. Munro reaches out by bending his back leg and batters the drive through the covers. Off the meat and the ball raced away to the fence

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Cricbuzz LIVE: Match 25, New Zealand v South Africa, Mid-innings show

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Ferguson to van der Dussen, FOUR, clears his front leg, stands still and dispatches this straight back over the bowler's head. 15 from the final over and this should give South Africa some momentum

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Ferguson to van der Dussen, SIX, gets pace this time and VDD belts it for a 92-metre six over wide long-on. 143ks short ball outside off and he's got all of it

Rookie: If NZ win this match, then they go to the top of the table and yet we don't seem to be treating them as teams like IND, AUS, and ENG.
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Ferguson to Chris Morris, FOUR, South Africa will take that with both hands. Morris clears his front leg and stays deep inside the crease, throws the kitchen sink at a short ball and off she flies over the keeper

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Matt Henry to van der Dussen, SIX, he targets the short boundary and collects the desired result. A gentle length ball outside off, VDD heaves and loses shape in the process, the ball though keeps flying and crashes flat into the boundary hoardings

Soumya Jyoti: This world cup is being played in the 1992 format. Keeping in sync with that, this match too is being played in the 1992 style till now.
Soi: Fail to understand why SA didn't send Chris Morris above Phehlukwayo, as he has way better hitting skills compared to the latter.
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Ferguson to Phehlukwayo, out Caught by Williamson!! He's struggled to put bat to ball and the ordeal ends. Smashes the low full toss straight to KW at mid-off. The Kiwi skipper had to backtrack and times his jump to perfection to take it in front of his eyes. Phehlukwayo c Williamson b Ferguson 0(5)

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Boult to van der Dussen, FOUR, no signs of pain on this, clearly! Gets a full pitcher in the arc, VDD stays firm and unveils the bottom hand power to bash it straight past the non-striker

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Ferguson to Miller, out Caught by Boult!! Gets him with a short ball. 143ks well wide of off-stump, made Miller fetch it off his toes and the sliced upper cut lands in the safe mitts of Trent Boult at third man. Just had to cover a few yards to his left which he did with supreme ease. Miller c Boult b Ferguson 36(37) [4s-2 6s-1]

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Ferguson to Miller, FOUR, gets too full and slips it on Miller's pads, flicked away and Ferguson's pace takes care of the rest

Prabesh Prabhu: "I feel its time for Killer Miller to start accelerating." -- He heard you.
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Boult to Miller, SIX, right where Miller likes it. Full and moving in, Miller hammers it for a 84-metre maximum over mid-wicket. Easy as you like

Vincent Dassie: Its evident Proteas can't over come the the mental challenge, when it matters most.
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Santner to van der Dussen, SIX, this bloke is right up there with the best when it comes to playing well against the spinners and this is why. Gets a rare juicy toss up from Santner and the next thing he does is to smoke the ball into the long-on stands. Nailed!

Lakshay: "If only ABD was in this team." -- If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Gowtam Reddy P: Not a single boundary between these two. It's really time for both to go for big shots as Morris and Phelukwayo are yet to come.
Nikul Modi: Miller needs to play somewhat like Morgan. He is capable of doing the same.
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Cricbuzz Comm Box: Match 25, New Zealand v South Africa, 1st inn, Over No.35

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de Grandhomme to Markram, out Caught by Munro!! de Grandhomme deserved this wicket. He has been economical and not given the batsmen anything. And this was also coming for Markram, who looked fidgety since the fall of Amla. He walks down the wicket and looks to go over mid-off, but the ball seams away enough to take the outer half of the blade and balloon towards sweeper cover. Munro runs forward and takes it comfortably. Markram c Munro b de Grandhomme 38(55) [4s-4]

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Boult to Markram, FOUR, fabulous shot! Nothing much wrong with the delivery. It was full and outside off, Markram drives on the rise and times the pants off it, sweeper runs to his right and tries his best but the timing was just too good

Nikhil Panchal: "SA need a score in excess of 250 to challenge this NZ batting lineup. They bat deep." -- I guess close to 280 should be the norm.
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Santner to Markram, FOUR, this time he manages to place it better. Santner once more throws it up invitingly outside off, Markram obliges and crunches the drive wide of extra cover. The man at sweeper had no chance

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Santner to Amla, out Bowled!! Cleaned up! That is a rippah from Santner. This might be the most he has turned today. Lovely seam position on the flighted delivery, drifts in with it and lands on a length, Amla is caught halfway forward, the ball then turns just enough to beat the prodding blade and hit top of off-stump. A dream delivery to any left-arm spinner - flight, drift and turn to beat the batsman. Once again South Africa lose a wicket when a partnership was building. Amla b Santner 55(83) [4s-4]

Rohan Joseph: Its time for SA batsmen to open their arms and score briskly. At least one of these two will have to!
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Percentage cricket is New Zealand's mantra for success in global events - Zaheer Khan

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de Grandhomme to Amla, FOUR, de Grandhomme almost had a wicket. But instead it is fifty for Amla. First in the tournament and it has come at a time when South Africa needed him badly. The job is not done though as he has to carry on and get them to a competitive total. He walks across his stumps and whips it in the air, just past the outstretched right hand of Henry, who dived across at mid-on but could not get anything on it

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Santner to Markram, FOUR, Markram needed that. More importantly South Africa needed that. Santner tosses it up and overpitches, Markram clears his front leg and uses the bottom hand to drill the drive powerfully past Santner, no chance for the long-on fielder to get across

Jatin Joshi: Rotation of strike is the need of hour.
Mohammad Azhar: Missing "ABD" now...
Sagnik: Time for Markram to play a sensible innings and Amla to justify his selection as well.
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Ferguson to Markram, FOUR, what a shot to get off the mark. Ferguson overpitched, Markram was confident in his forward stride and essayed a neat cover-drive to the right of the man inside the ring

Waleed: Amla is looking good but the New Zealanders have done their home work and are not letting him to settle down and score those boundaries.
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Cricbuzz Comm Box: Match 25, New Zealand v South Africa, 1st inn, Over No.15

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Ferguson to du Plessis, out Bowled!! What thought process from Ferguson. He bowled a good short ball previous ball and followed it up with a 148kph yorker. You won't mind getting out to those. Faf did bring his bat down, but it went past the outside edge and crashed into the base of off stump. Massive blow to the Proteas, because Faf was looking really good out there. It's a tricky 59/2 now. You need a minimum of 270-280 here. du Plessis b Ferguson 23(35) [4s-4]

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Ferguson to du Plessis, FOUR, gee! Top shot. Good length delivery outside off stump, a free-flowing punchy-drive, big gap at cover and this does escape

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Matt Henry to du Plessis, FOUR, excellent off-drive. Past the bowler, past mid-off and it's racing across, CDG chases, dives and pulls the ball back. He's saved a run by the looks of it. The ball did roll back a touch and CDG did push the rope back from its original position. So may well be a boundary. Yes it is!

Mohammad Ibrahim: Pressure has been exerted but the wickets haven't come!
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Delayed start due to wet outfield unacceptable in a big tournament - Joy Bhattacharjya

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Boult to du Plessis, FOUR, Boult throws this wider and fuller to see what Faf does and the captain reaches out to drive wide of mid-off. Went for the cover drive and got it pretty well

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Boult to du Plessis, FOUR, there is a full-fledged dive this time from mid-off but the ball was already past Williamson by the time his right-hand was fully stretched. Faf managed to off-drive this ball off the inner half of the bat, yet get enough power behind the shot

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Boult to Amla, FOUR, shottt! Such a sweet sound the bat made when Amla met the ball. That's a condifence booster for any batsman. Boult went searching for swing but it didn't move and Amla was quick onto the front foot to get it racing through cover

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Boult to Amla, FOUR, shottt! Such a sweet sound the bat made when Amla met the ball. That's a condifence booster for any batsman. Boult went searching for swing but it didn't move and Amla was quick onto the front foot to get it racing through cover

Nikhil Chopra: Its a tricky toss to win. Pakistan won the toss against India thinking that pitch will favor bowlers, but things were different. Hopefully it will not happen today.
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Boult to de Kock, out Bowled!! This is bad batting. You can't say it's a really great ball. Tentative feet, in fact it got stuck and the upper body was leaning forward to drive as soon as the mind decoded this is a full ball. The feet needed to move forward for the balance to be there and this one nipped back into him slightly to beat the inside edge of the bat and knock over the leg pole. You could sense from the walk to the crease at the start that QdK wasn't confident enough mentally. The nerves have got the better of him. Walks back gutted. de Kock b Boult 5(8) [4s-1]

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Boult to de Kock, FOUR, Boult is seriously testing the swing, but to be honest, the seam didn't come out right off his hands for it to swing, so it's an easy leg-side ball, which de Kock tickles for four to fine leg

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Matt Henry to Amla, FOUR, is he still bowling scrambled seam? This is a freebie ball down the leg-side, Amla will feed on those, can't ask for an easier ball to get going and he glances it to fine leg for the scorers to make some entries

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Cricbuzz LIVE: Match 25, New Zealand v South Africa, Toss & Team update

Pankaj Tyagi: When will it start!! Can we have an update please? -- "Soon!"
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