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New Zealand vs South Africa, 2nd ODI at Mount Maunganui, , Oct 24 2014 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
2nd ODI, Mount Maunganui, October 24, 2014, South Africa tour of New Zealand [October 2014]
(46.3/50 ov, T:283) 210

South Africa won by 72 runs

Player Of The Match
119 (135)
hashim-amla
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NZ
Full commentary

6.15 pm South Africa have won the series with a 2-0 lead after another no-show from New Zealand's top-order batsmen. Their bowlers did a decent job of reining in South Africa but all of it was in vain. Only Luke Ronchi showed spine in the chase.

Sameer: "SAF is Hiring, wanted a bowler who can take the 10th wicket in a match"

Dan: "More than twice the next best partnership. The other nine players really need to ask themselves some questions."

Alex: "Wow, the guy who mailed in pre-match and said he'd taken SA by 70 runs in an office sweepstake really knows his stuff." Michael, it was.

Brendon McCullum: "Wasn't great, batting let us down, bowling was okay. We were good in the field. Too many soft dismissals, little backbone at the end but far too little too late. We got to continue to get used to the conditions, short on adapting to this wicket ... we got a bit of hard work to do over the next two days. 280 at the half-way mark was okay, the bowlers kept coming back nicely in those last ten overs. It's a beautiful ground and a fantastic place, great crowd as well."

AB de Villiers: "It was a bit frustrating at the end, we lost Immi so I had to make up the overs too. I;ve been bowling a little bit, discussing the options, if I can land it it will be handy in certain games, I won't bowl in all the games. When Hashim bats like that it just sets up the whole line up to be aggressive ... another great hundred ... I thought Quinny started well as well, always important to get a good opening stand. We have about eight games down under and we want to win most of them."

Hashim Amla is the Man of the Match: "It felt good, it was difficult early on. The little things went out way and we managed to hang in there quite a while. Today the wicket was doing a bit and the guys were bowlign well so it did not allow us to go hard up front but we were able to push on in the middle ..."

That's all I've got for you at the moment. Thank you for all your emails today. Join us on October 27 for the final game. Cheers!

46.3
W
Philander to Ronchi, OUT

it's all over! South Africa have been kept in the field for much longer than they would have liked, but in the end it is a thumping victory for them. Ronchi will have to wait for his maiden hundred. He falls after slicing the ball over point but Faf was quick enough to run back and take a well-judged catch

Luke Ronchi c du Plessis b Philander 79 (83b 7x4 1x6 120m) SR: 95.18
46.2
1
Philander to McClenaghan, 1 run

mis-timed towards mid-on for a single, McClenaghan ran the first hard wanting the second, but decided against it

Philander's back to try and end this ...

46.1
Philander to McClenaghan, no run

McClenaghan backs away and slogs at a short of a length ball outside off, he makes no contact

end of over 468 runs
NZ: 209/9CRR: 4.54 RRR: 18.50
Mitchell McClenaghan33 (41b 4x4)
Luke Ronchi79 (82b 7x4 1x6)
Dale Steyn 9-1-35-2
Morne Morkel 9-1-44-1
45.6
1
Steyn to McClenaghan, 1 run

McClenaghan clears his front foot and slogs a short of a length ball to wide long on, New Zealand have broken their record last wicket stand in ODIs two games in a row. Move over Trent Boult, McClenaghan has taken your spot with Ronchi.

45.5
1
Steyn to Ronchi, 1 run

Ronchi does it much more conventionally, steering the ball with an open face to third man

45.4
1lb
Steyn to McClenaghan, 1 leg bye

McClenaghan jumps outside the line of off stump and tries to glance Steyn past the keeper, gets hit on the pad and runs a leg bye to fine leg

45.3
1
Steyn to Ronchi, 1 run

plays a lofted cover drive into the deep, falls short of the fielder

45.2
4
Steyn to Ronchi, FOUR runs

so much for mundanity! Ronchi swivels and pulls a short ball, hitting it over the infield and into the gap on the midwicket boundary

45.1
Steyn to Ronchi, no run

full and straight, Ronchi plays it watchfully back to the bowler, all rather mundane after McClenaghan's bravado

Dale Steyn is back ...

RobbieMc: "We should just pick ten bowlers and Ronchi. It would give us more bowling options while sacrificing nothing with the bat. "

end of over 4512 runs
NZ: 201/9CRR: 4.46 RRR: 16.40
Mitchell McClenaghan32 (39b 4x4)
Luke Ronchi73 (78b 6x4 1x6)
Morne Morkel 9-1-44-1
Jean-Paul Duminy 7-0-41-1
44.6
Morkel to McClenaghan, no run

McClenaghan feels he can do anything now! He jumps outside the line of off stump and then tries to scoop a short of a length ball over de Kock, he does not make any contact

gav: "Why couldn't Chris Martin ever do this"

44.5
4
Morkel to McClenaghan, FOUR runs

Morkel is taking a beating from a No. 11, McClenaghan makes room by moving outside leg and then swings freely, smashing the ball past mid-on

44.4
Morkel to McClenaghan, no run

dug in short again, just outside leg, McClenaghan moves towards the off side to let it pass, should have been called wide even though the batsman moved a long way

44.3
Morkel to McClenaghan, no run

Morkel digs it in shorter and McClenaghan moves out of the way after initially shaping to swipe at it

44.2
4
Morkel to McClenaghan, FOUR runs

what a shot that is! McClenaghan has just lined up a length ball and slammed it back over the bowler's head, clean contact that time

44.1
4
Morkel to McClenaghan, FOUR runs

McClenaghan clears his front foot and slogs at a length ball that's pretty straight, he gets an inside edge that misses the stumps and races to the fine leg boundary

Mani: "SA's top order and NZ bottom 5 will make a world class team."

end of over 4410 runs
NZ: 189/9CRR: 4.29 RRR: 15.66
Mitchell McClenaghan20 (33b 1x4)
Luke Ronchi73 (78b 6x4 1x6)
Jean-Paul Duminy 7-0-41-1
Morne Morkel 8-1-32-1
43.6
1
Duminy to McClenaghan, 1 run

worked off the pads to short fine leg for a single

43.5
Duminy to McClenaghan, no run

defended back to the bowler

43.4
4
Duminy to McClenaghan, FOUR runs

superb from McClenaghan, slog sweeps and executes it superbly, hitting the ball in front of the fielder on the deep backward square leg boundary

43.3
Duminy to McClenaghan, no run

defended on the front foot on the leg side

Michael: "Ronchi has now outscored the NZ top 6 combined. Again."

Charlie: "These two really need to pick up the pace a little bit, I don't think they can leave it all till the last five overs today."

43.2
3
Duminy to Ronchi, 3 runs

cut off the back foot and it beats the fielder at point, another fielder chases and pulls it in just inside the rope, Faf gave chase. That brings up the 50 partnership!

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