WC cricket 2011 match 45: Kiwis upset South Africa to enter SF

By Team Bellevision
Bellevision Media Network

Mirpur, 25 March 2011 : New Zealand produced an inspired fielding and bowling performance to extend South Africa’s horror run in World Cup knockout matches with a 49-run upset win in Friday’s quarterfinal. South Africa appeared to be coasting at 108-2 in the 24th over after restricting New Zealand to 221 for eight, but crumbled to 172 all out. The "chokers" tag they had been so keen to banish at this tournament will continue to haunt them.

 

The turning point came when Jacob Oram took an athletic catch on the boundary to dismiss Jacques Kallis on 47, and the rot set in for South Africa. Oram also took four wickets in a key performance. AB de Villiers was run out for 32 after Faf du Plessis called for a needless single to give New Zealand a second wicket in three balls and leave South Africa reeling on 121-5 in the 28th over.

 

Tempers flared when New Zealand’s 12th man, Kyle Mills, appeared to say something to Du Plessis after running out with the drinks, prompting some barging and angry exchanges between the two sets of players. It was a sign of the high tension in the middle, tension that South Africa’s players succumbed to. Du Plessis and Morne Morkel rallied their team briefly with a ninth-wicket stand of 26 but it was too little, too late.

 

 

A jubilant New Zealand team heads to Colombo for Tuesday’s semifinal against Sri Lanka or England, while South Africa heads home to deal with the fallout from another big-match failure that leaves them winless in five World Cup knockout matches. The defeat also brought the curtain down on Graeme Smith’s captaincy of South Africa’s limited-overs team in the worst possible way, while extending Daniel Vettori’s reign as New Zealand skipper by at least one match.

 

For a long time, the match looked like being a masterstroke by Smith, whose tactic of rotating his bowlers in two or three-over spells and varying his fields successfully prevented New Zealand’s big-hitting batsmen doing any serious damage. Jesse Ryder scored a steady 83 for the Kiwis and put on 114 for the third wicket with Ross Taylor, but when New Zealand looked to attack at the end of the innings, the wickets fell on a regular basis.

 

Vettori was the last man to fall when he was bowled by a clever yorker from Morne Morkel, the second of the paceman’s two wickets in the penultimate over. Vettori’s return to the team and the inclusion of World Cup debutant Luke Woodcock and Nathan McCullum meant New Zealand matched South Africa by including three spinners in their team.

 

 

McCullum struck in the first over — although the wicket had more than a slice of luck attached as Hashim Amla bottom-edged the ball onto Brendon McCullum’s boot and it flew to Vettori at slip. Kallis and Smith guided the recovery for South Africa but the captain was out for 28 when he sliced straight to substitute Jamie How at backward point.

 

De Villiers joined Kallis but once again, just as South Africa looked set to take control of the contest, a wicket fell — Kallis attempting to reach the longest boundary over midwicket and finding a galloping Oram instead. Oram’s catch sparked jubilation among the New Zealand players and the momentum gathered pace when JP Duminy was bowled by Nathan McCullum and then De Villiers was dismissed.

 

Johan Botha, Robin Peterson and Dale Steyn fell cheaply to leave New Zealand on the brink of victory, and though Du Plessis and Morkel made them wait, Woodcock claimed the final wicket to spark the celebrations.

 

Match Summary

ICC World Cup 2011 New Zealand vs South Africa, 3rd Quarter-Final Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, March 25, 2011

Match Information Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) & Rod Tucker (Aus) Third Umpire: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (SL) Toss: New Zealand (Elected to bat) Match Status: New Zealand won by 49 runs

Batting: South Africa Innings

Batsmen South Africa (172/10 in 43.2 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Hashim Amla c D Vettori b N McCullum 7 5 1 0 140.00 Graeme Smith (c) c (sub)J How b J Oram 28 34 2 0 82.35 Jacques Kallis c J Oram b T Southee 47 75 3 0 62.67 AB de Villiers (wk) run out (M Guptill/B McCullum) 35 40 4 0 87.50 Jean-Paul Duminy b N McCullum 3 12 0 0 25.00 Faf du Plessis c T Southee b J Oram 36 43 3 1 83.72 Johan Botha b J Oram 2 10 0 0 20.00 Robin Peterson c B McCullum b J Oram 0 5 0 0 0.00 Dale Steyn c J Oram b N McCullum 8 18 1 0 44.44 Morne Morkel c (sub)J How b L Woodcock 3 17 0 0 17.65 Imran Tahir not out 0 1 0 0 0.00 Extras: b - 0, w - 1, nb - 0, lb - 2 3   Total:(172 for 10 in 43.2 overs) 172 Run Rate: 3.97

Fall Of Wickets

1/8 (Hashim Amla, 0.6 ov.), 2/69 (Graeme Smith, 14.2 ov.), 3/108 (Jacques Kallis, 24.1 ov.), 4/121 (Jean-Paul Duminy, 27.4 ov.), 5/121 (AB de Villiers, 28 ov.), 6/128 (Johan Botha, 32.5 ov.), 7/132 (Robin Peterson, 34.2 ov.), 8/146 (Dale Steyn, 37.4 ov.), 9/172 (Faf du Plessis, 42.5 ov.), 10/172 (Morne Morkel, 43.2 ov.)

Bowling: New Zealand

Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Nathan McCullum 10 1 24 3 0 0 2.4 Daniel Vettori 10 0 39 0 0 0 3.9 Tim Southee 9 0 44 1 0 0 4.9 Jacob Oram 9 1 39 4 0 0 4.3 Luke Woodcock 5.2 0 24 1 0 1 4.5

Batting: New Zealand Innings

Batsmen New Zealand (221/8 in 50 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Martin Guptill c J Botha b D Steyn 1 14 0 0 7.14 Brendon McCullum (wk) c & b R Peterson 4 4 0 0 100.00 Jesse Ryder c (sub)C Ingram b I Tahir 83 121 8 0 68.60 Ross Taylor c J Kallis b I Tahir 43 72 1 1 59.72 Scott Styris b M Morkel 16 17 3 0 94.12 Kane Williamson not out 38 41 1 1 92.68 Nathan McCullum c J Duminy b D Steyn 6 18 0 0 33.33 Jacob Oram b M Morkel 7 6 1 0 116.67 Daniel Vettori (c) b M Morkel 6 4 1 0 150.00 Luke Woodcock not out 3 3 0 0 100.00 Tim Southee             Extras: b - 4, w - 6, nb - 0, lb - 4 14   Total:(221 for 8 in 50 overs) 221 Run Rate: 4.42

Fall Of Wickets

1/5 (Brendon McCullum, 2.1 ov.), 2/16 (Martin Guptill, 5.6 ov.), 3/130 (Ross Taylor, 32.6 ov.), 4/153 (Scott Styris, 37.2 ov.), 5/156 (Jesse Ryder, 38.5 ov.), 6/188 (Nathan McCullum, 45.3 ov.), 7/204 (Jacob Oram, 48.1 ov.), 8/210 (Daniel Vettori, 48.5 ov.)

Bowling: South Africa

Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Robin Peterson 9 0 49 1 0 0 5.4 Dale Steyn 10 0 42 2 0 2 4.2 Johan Botha 9 0 29 0 0 1 3.2 Morne Morkel 8 0 46 3 0 0 5.8 Imran Tahir 9 0 32 2 0 1 3.6 Jacques Kallis 3 1 6 0 0 0 2.0 Jean-Paul Duminy 2 0 9 0 0 1 4.5

 

Future Match Schedule (all matches at 14.30, Day - Night):

Match 46, Quarter-final 4 - March 26th, Sri Lanka vs England

Match 47, Semi-final 1 - March 29th, New Zealand vs Winner of (Sri Lanka vs England)

Match 48, Semi-final 2 - March 30th, Pakistan vs India

Match 49, Final - April 02nd, Winner of match 47 vs winner of match 48