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
New Zealand vs South Africa, 2nd ODI at Mount Maunganui, Oct 24 2014 - Ball by Ball 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 ..."
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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 ...
McClenaghan backs away and slogs at a short of a length ball outside off, he makes no contact
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.
Ronchi does it much more conventionally, steering the ball with an open face to third man
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
plays a lofted cover drive into the deep, falls short of the fielder
so much for mundanity! Ronchi swivels and pulls a short ball, hitting it over the infield and into the gap on the midwicket boundary
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. "
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"
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
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
Morkel digs it in shorter and McClenaghan moves out of the way after initially shaping to swipe at it
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
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."
worked off the pads to short fine leg for a single
defended back to the bowler
superb from McClenaghan, slog sweeps and executes it superbly, hitting the ball in front of the fielder on the deep backward square leg boundary
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."
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!