*Official* South Africa A v New Zealand A 2025

[Neil Young]

Curtis Tavare

 

[ashley bach]

It's very hard to be as boring as Chris Tavare

 

[straw man]

Heaphy's been quite successful in his short List A and T20 career for CD too, so it's not like he doesn't have shots. Obviously just thought it was better to be more restrained today.

 

[Immenso]

Heaphy batted for just over 10 hours for his 190.

130.4 overs.

So only 4 (and a bit) sessions in old money.

'A' level over-rates are just as bad as at test level. Despite no DRS, boundary checks, catch checks, stumping checks etc.

 

[Immenso]

Heaphy's been quite successful in his short List A and T20 career for CD too, so it's not like he doesn't have shots. Obviously just thought it was better to be more restrained today.

His strike rates in both white ball formats are slow though.

He is not a serious 'A' level player for NZ yet at white ball. He is playing some 'A' 'odis' because he is already on the tours because of his red ball credentials.

This doesn't have to be a permanent state of affairs though. You'd expect to him to start adding shots.

I watched about an an hour last night. He already had his ton, and the second new ball was a bit older but still coming off the bat nicely. He was surprisingly (to me) fluent, almost flawless in that period, quite a pleasant batsman to watch actually,

 

[Kippax]

Should I salute Heaphy by making a bbb video of his Super Smash 78 against O'Rourke, Jamieson, Foulkes and Sodhi from January? Maybe in a few days.

I see CD's channel made a 60-sec wrap of it.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Heaphy scored a very nice 50 in Guyana for CD against the Hobart Hurricanes 2-3 months ago. Batted in the middle order with Bruce and looked really good

 

[Kippax]

Heaphy from 2.05

 

[Skyliner]

Without Fisher the NZ A attack looks pretty innocuous. Lister has gone for 51 off the 6 overs he has bowled so far.

 

[Skyliner]

Abbas hasn’t bowled at all.

 

[SeamUp]

Tiaan van Vuuren playing Div 2 cricket next season our best bowler. Seem so strange that he got the jump to SA A whilst no one signed him for Div 1.

He is a handy cricketer though. Just has not consistently shown his talents until last season with bat and ball.

Before this game his FC bests were 4/39 & 47. He was pushing for his first 5-for for ages and got 120 batting at 8.

Good innings by Qeshile too. Big daddy hundred.

Just such a road. This can happen at the out grounds like Benoni.

 

[GRAB]

Qeshile as probably our most acrobatic keeper also hitting some big runs is good... Made a lot for ep at 6/7 but struggled when he moved up the order for a while...

 

[SeamUp]

Qeshile as probably our most acrobatic keeper also hitting some big runs is good... Made a lot for ep at 6/7 but struggled when he moved up the order for a while...

People moaned he wasn't getting enough opportunity but I totally agree, he was better coming in at 6/7. He struggled vs spin on a few occassions I saw him in the last few years which I think played a part in his inconsistencies as well.

 

[straw man]

Abbas hasn’t bowled at all.

That's pretty strange. We already knew the squad was light on fast bowlers, then we rested (I assume) Fisher and Lister bowled 6 horrible overs and then (I assume again) got injured, leaving just Foulkes and Clarkson as seamers. You'd think Abbas would bowl in that situation.

Lennox and Ashok both hit pretty hard - conceded rpos of 4.6 and 5.4 respectively and the wickets I saw were not overly impressive. Flat wicket tbf.

Foulkes toiled manfully for 2/86.

Final day looks like a stat-padding exercise for NZ's batters - Carter with a point to prove and hey maybe Jacobs will even get a run.

 

[Skyliner]

Truly bizarre that Abbas didn’t bowl. Rhys Mariu bowled 5 over, yet no Abbas. He must be injured.

 

[ashley bach]

Heaphy from 2.05

Zing bail fail of a different sort @7.55 @Spikey

 

[NZTailender]

Mariu probably couldn't have had a better tour really. I mean the second test definitely on a road, but still.

Glad Jacobs manage to score more than zilch too.

 

[Skyliner]

The objective for the batsmen on this tour was to score bucketloads of runs and present a compelling case to the selectors. Mariu has totally succeeded in meeting that objective.

 

[Bahnz]

Yeah, I understand Kippax's lingering skepticism about Mariu's tendency to cash-in on flat, slow tracks, but quantity has a quality all of its own and ~1900FC runs at 60+ is damn impressive.

 

[Flem274*]

Yeah, I understand Kippax's lingering skepticism about Mariu's tendency to cash-in on flat, slow tracks, but quantity has a quality all of its own and ~1900FC runs at 60+ is damn impressive.

Plus someone needs to score us some runs at the Mount