1st Test: South Africa v New Zealand

New Zealand tour of South Africa

Durban, Aug 19-23, 2016

South Africa won the toss and chose to bat.

146 - 4 after 54 overs

Amla 53, Elgar 19, Cook 20, Duminy 14

150 - 4

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Current partnership  44 runs, 19.4 overs, RR: 2.23 (du Plessis 18, Bavuma 26)

54.1
Boult to Bavuma, FOUR, Short and wide outside off , Bavuma latches onto

the offering and carves his cut in front of point.

57.3
Wagner to du Plessis, my word. Kane has nipped out Faf.

What an effort that is. Unbelievable stuff from the Captain.

Thick outside edge flies away to his right at gully.

In fact, it is almost behind him, but he sticks out his right hand and clings onto

an absolute stunner. Akin to Stokes in the Ashes.

FaF c Kane b Opus1    23

awful shot de cock 208/6

208 - 6

67.4
Santner to de Kock, one too many? Most definitely. Quinton has thrown it away,

but a handy contribution.

de Kock c Bracewell b Santner 33  SR 100

lbwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

67.5
Umpire Gould gives Bavuma but he wants to review.

A flat delivery on off, Bavuma brings out a premeditated sweep but misses it.

Maybe a tad too full to play stroke.

No bat on that.

UltraEdge shows a spike when the ball passes the glove

but that is bat hitting the ground.

Umpire's call on impact and that should be it.

208 - 7

Every South Africa batsman getting a start, but none going on to post a big score. With no ABdV, this could be a tough series for South Africa. They are in a free-fall.