South Africa vs New Zealand, 14th Match, Group E at Bridgetown, May 06 2010, ICC World Twenty20

RESULT
14th Match, Group E, Bridgetown, May 06, 2010, ICC World Twenty20
(20 ov, T:171) 157/7

South Africa won by 13 runs

Player Of The Match
40 (18)
albie-morkel
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Scorecard summary
South Africa 170/4(20 overs)
1/22 (3)
New Zealand 157/7(20 overs)
33 (28)
2/27 (4)
2/23 (3)
end of over 2013 runs
NZ: 157/7CRR: 7.85 
Daniel Vettori10 (10b 1x4)
Nathan McCullum26 (17b 3x4 1x6)
Albie Morkel 1-0-13-0
Charl Langeveldt 4-0-39-2

Solid all-round performance from South Africa. There were rarely behind in the game once the top-order gave them a good start. Albie, of course, provided the fireworks that propelled them to a big total, which proved 13 too many for New Zealand. For NZ, none of the top five had strike-rates above 120, which meant the lower order had too much to do. South Africa will be pleased with their bowling unit as well: the decision to bring in Botha paid off and Morne continues to show he can be good at Twenty20s.

Post-match presentation:

Vettori: "de Villiers and Morkel played well, we missed a couple of chances but let them get too much. You needed to be inch-perfect with guys like Morkel hitting at the death, but we were a little off. We need guys at the top to play 40-50 balls to have a chance of chasing down this target."

Smith: "We played smart cricket, Albie made the most of his opportunity, and his partnership with AB could have been the turning point. We controlled the game pretty well, except for some sloppiness in the final five overs. Big game against England coming up."

Alibe is the Man of the Match. "The key for me is to keep my shape, it was a short boundary down the ground and also with the wind, so it worked in my favour."

That's it from us for the first day of the Super Eights. Tomorrow kicks off with a massive match between India and Australia, followed by Sri Lanka v hosts West Indies. Join us then. This is Siddarth Ravindran, saying good night.

Last words of the day will be to Martin: "My previous comment was a bit brilliant but also wasn't worded well so came out nonsense. Explained better SA scored 1 run for every run scored off a boundary NZ follow suit at just under 1 run per run scored of boundary but the 11 6's from SA and only 6 from NZ was where the match was won and lost."

19.6
1
Morkel to Vettori, 1 run

length ball on off, Vettori moves across the stumps and works it to midwicket for a single to keep the margin of defeat to 13 runs

19.5
1
Morkel to McCullum, 1 run

a full toss, was looking to hit to the leg side, flies towards point instead

19.4
6
Morkel to McCullum, SIX runs

a brilliant hit from McCullum, a shot his brother would have been proud off, powerfully hit over deep cover, taken nicely by a man in the crowd

Greg in France: "To Martin from the UK. Merci Mate! I'm off to bed."

19.3
1
Morkel to Vettori, 1 run

full on middle and leg, tucked away towards backward square leg

19.2
Morkel to Vettori, no run

Vettori hacks at another one outside off but doesn't connect

19.1
4
Morkel to Vettori, FOUR runs

length ball on the pads, Vettori flicks it away towards deep square leg for four

end of over 199 runs
NZ: 144/7CRR: 7.57 RRR: 27.00
Nathan McCullum19 (15b 3x4)
Daniel Vettori4 (6b)
Charl Langeveldt 4-0-39-2
Dale Steyn 4-0-25-1
18.6
2
Langeveldt to McCullum, 2 runs

ends the over with a low full toss on off, pounded towards extra cover where a jumping Morne Morkel gets a hand on it, but the power means he can't grab on to that hard chance

18.5
4
Langeveldt to McCullum, FOUR runs

a bit more width this time, McCullum slices it over deep backwards point for four

18.4
1
Langeveldt to Vettori, 1 run

sticks to the full and outside off formula, punched to mid-on, where Smith moves across to his right to field

18.3
1
Langeveldt to McCullum, 1 run

again it's full and just outside off, driven crisply to long-on, just a single

18.2
1
Langeveldt to Vettori, 1 run

full and on offstump, driven towards mid-off

18.1
Langeveldt to Vettori, no run

looked like a wide outside off stump, Vettori had backed away a long way

end of over 186 runs
NZ: 135/7CRR: 7.50 RRR: 18.00
Nathan McCullum12 (12b 2x4)
Daniel Vettori2 (3b)
Dale Steyn 4-0-25-1
Morne Morkel 4-0-27-2
17.6
Steyn to McCullum, no run

lovely bit of keeping from Boucher, it was full and outside off, McCullum shuffled across and looked to get it to finel leg, he misses, the ball bounces just before reaching Boucher who collects it low and to his right

17.5
1
Steyn to Vettori, 1 run

swung away to deep backward square leg for a single

17.4
1
Steyn to McCullum, 1 run

slower ball, length and on off, chipped towards midwicket, timing isn't great so it lands short of the fielder

17.4
1w
Steyn to McCullum, 1 wide

looks to slip in a slower ball but is too wide outside off

Martin from the UK sends in a mail that might be brilliant or nonsense: "in response to marks comment, however in threat of sounding a bit geeky at the time his comment was written new zealand are scoring an average of 1.8 runs between there boundaries and south africa hit 1.9 runs between boundaries. now considering this was before the final four over slog its fair to say its not the singles and twos between boundaries thats knocked them down its the fact their boundaries are 4's and not 6's"

17.3
Steyn to McCullum, no run

a wide yorker, McCullum can't do much with that

17.3
2nb
Steyn to Vettori, (no ball) 1 run

this time Vettori skips past leg and swings a full ball towards mid-on, free-hit coming up

17.2
Steyn to Vettori, no run

just past the offstump as Vettori gets way across and tries to get the ball past short fine leg

17.1
1
Steyn to McCullum, 1 run

length ball just outside off, carved towards sweeper cover

Best performances - batters
Spike Graph
Wagon Zone
AB de Villiers
47 runs (39)
1 four2 sixes
Productive shot
pull/hook on back foot
15 runs
0 four2 sixes
Control
82%
JA Morkel
40 runs (18)
0 four5 sixes
Productive shot
off side drive on front foot
19 runs
0 four3 sixes
Control
89%
Best performances - bowlers
M Morkel
O
4
M
0
R
27
W
2
ECO
6.75
J Botha
O
3
M
0
R
23
W
2
ECO
7.66
Match details
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados
TossSouth Africa, elected to bat first
Series
Season2010
Player Of The Match
Match numberT20I no. 164
Hours of play (local time)13.30 start, First Session 13.30-14.50, Interval 14.50-15.10, Second Session 15.10-16.30
Match days6 May 2010 - day (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpire
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
PointsSouth Africa 2, New Zealand 0
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