Days of Grace
International Captain
Man, watching all day in Japan. Took the day off work. Still only 7:30pm here so don't know what to do. Just elated and so proud of the boys. Greatest sporting day in my life.
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1st Semi Final - New Zealand v South Africa (24th March)
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Halfpast_Yellow
U19 Vice-Captain
So happy for the team. Feel really bad for SA they deserve a final too and played well
Yep and it is still a farce
Happy to see the Kiwis win the WC as it will be good for world and NZ cricket but seriously .........
Niall
International Coach
Fair point.
Normally, I'd be on the rain screwed South Africa bandwagon as I hate duckworth lewis.
However we are also forgetting about the South African bowlers, yeah Morkel and Tahir would have bowled 20 quality overs, but what about the rest?
Vern and Steyn were both absolute rubbish and who knows what would have happened if they tried to sneak another few overs out of AB and JP.
350 in 50 overs, you'd back a team to defend that more often then not, but today, not so sure, to many passengers in the bowling ranks for South Africa.
Its still a ****ing awesome effort to chase this from NZ, and to be fair not as if AB did not know about the rain either.
dfrinku
U19 Debutant
Oh, wait, no. Shane Warne is commentating on the replay too.
flibbertyjibber
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A celebration drink or two. Enjoy your night.
indiaholic
International Captain
SA was aware of the rain and if they felt like it, they could have accelerated earlier. Bunch of whiny ****s. Seriously, how jaded do you have to be to whine like this after a match like that?
Halfpast_Yellow
U19 Vice-Captain
Also fans on both sides been great, I hope kiwi fans can continue to be humble. Match played in good spirit by the sound of it. Been following on cric info from hospital bed, rain break while having my op, great game to come to ease a boring day otherwise
wellAlbidarned
International Coach
Most beautiful game of cricket ever. Fantastic batting from SA, faf successly ground out the famous opening attack NZ posters had all been waving their dicks over (who even does that). De Villiers did a De Villiers and played as though different laws of physics applied to his world. Miller played the perfect cameo. There were serious doubts about whether we could handle it. Somehow, Bmac we got off the the perfect start. He successfully blunted SA's excellent test pairing of Steyn and Philander, though in a slightly different way Faf went about it. There were mistakes. Many mistakes. But sport (and life) isn't about not making mistakes. It's about putting those mistakes behind you, like every single one of our players did.
After Elliott's six to win it, me and my mate tried to do a drunk run up hi-five and both whacked our hands on the ceiling. The mark shall forever be a memorial to this game.
After Elliott's six to win it, me and my mate tried to do a drunk run up hi-five and both whacked our hands on the ceiling. The mark shall forever be a memorial to this game.
OverratedSanity
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Steyn diving full length in that penultimate over 
Gutted for him and Morkel... in quite different ways. Philander can gagf.
Gutted for him and Morkel... in quite different ways. Philander can gagf.
kiwiviktor81
International Debutant
This. Moreover, it would have given us another 12 overs to chase down whatever they scored.
Fair result. Magnificent game though, the Proteas were even more intense than the Springboks usually are and just as hard. SA fielding superb, batting excellent, bowling very, very good. That over in which Morkel got Anderson and went for 1 run was almost, almost, almost worthy of winning the match.
Gotta feel for AB, Morkel etc. They are a superb side and a great bunch of guys. But this is our moment.
Dream big New Zealand!
anil1405
International Captain
Gutted but loved the way Proteas fought.
There are some people pointing out few mistakes by Proteas like a certain drop catch or a run out chance being missed but am pretty sure some brilliant efforts in the field by Proteas wouldn’t be pointed out. They sure saved about 20-30 runs in the field and were freaking good throughout the innings, particularly in the last 10 overs. Maybe, maybe, no other team would’ve saved as many runs as Proteas did today.
Steyn bowled better than I expected in the final stages of the game. Sure he has given away a six off the penultimate ball but that’s just down to Grant being extremely cool. The full and wide delivery of the 3rd ball of last over was a well-planned delivery. Dan has the habit of coming across the stumps and tends to aim the fine leg area. So it was good from Steyn to bowl the delivery he did except that Dan had other plans.
There are some people pointing out few mistakes by Proteas like a certain drop catch or a run out chance being missed but am pretty sure some brilliant efforts in the field by Proteas wouldn’t be pointed out. They sure saved about 20-30 runs in the field and were freaking good throughout the innings, particularly in the last 10 overs. Maybe, maybe, no other team would’ve saved as many runs as Proteas did today.
Steyn bowled better than I expected in the final stages of the game. Sure he has given away a six off the penultimate ball but that’s just down to Grant being extremely cool. The full and wide delivery of the 3rd ball of last over was a well-planned delivery. Dan has the habit of coming across the stumps and tends to aim the fine leg area. So it was good from Steyn to bowl the delivery he did except that Dan had other plans.
Briony
International Debutant
In fairness though it is dangerous to play for rain and cost yourself wickets. Maybe they erred at the toss by batting first.
GGG
State Captain
I hope someone uploads it, I recorded it but for some reason with no sound.
OverratedSanity
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Yeah I thought Steyn's final over was fine... Dan squeezing that away for four was just great batting.
straw man
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It's not SA fans whining on here, it's 'neutrals'.
On another note, anyone know where I can find highlights? Blackcaps.co.nz and NZherald might have them soon I guess, but haven't seen them yet.
Edit: There's now one here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/67491930/New-Zealand-beat-South-Africa-by-four-wickets-to-reach-first-ever-World-Cup-final
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wellAlbidarned
International Coach
yeah and anyone who sees the question "who should bowl the final over for SA" and thinks Vernon Philander is the answer should really just stop following cricket