Proteas win ODI series

The slaughter of the black caps contiubed in the second ODI. The fragile Fred Sponge is of course nowhere to be found.
 

As I predicted the longer the version of the game the less chance the out classed back caps have.

Hope ou Fred is enjoying this dose of reality. Bwahahahahahahahaha

Hashim Amla and the consistent efforts of the bowlers led South Africa to a six-wicket victory, and the series win, with 70 balls to spare in the second ODI against New Zealand in Napier on Wednesday.

South Africa's bowlers – especially Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Morne Morkel – revelled in a McLean Park pitch that provided them with good pace and bounce and blasted New Zealand out for just 230.

Amla, after a poor tour thus far, then returned to his daily grind of making run-scoring look easy, breezing to 92 off 107 balls to make it a routine run-chase.

Amla telegraphed his intentions of doing the job as quickly and smoothly as possible by lashing six fours in his first 20 balls, while Faf du Plessis raced to 34 off 25 balls to ensure that South Africa were not affected either by the early loss of Jacques Kallis, who was superbly caught by wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum, diving forward, off Kyle Mills for four, or the fact that regular opener Graeme Smith was not playing due to a badly-bruised forearm.

Du Plessis and Amla laid down the law with a series of crunching strokes through the off side, adding 69 for the second wicket in just 8.4 overs, before a wonderful piece of cricket by Martin Guptill removed Du Plessis.

A comprehensive hiding is the verdict.

What on earth is going on here....is it as simple as the Proteas being too good for them? Seriously, I suspect our bowling is either too good or their batting has no quality of depth. In terms of variety and general depth of bowlimg I reckon it's the best we've been since re-admission. Steyn, Morne and Tsotsobe are different in style and the same can be  said of Marchant. I wish we have a chance to see four quicks in operation. There's one weakness in the side, Albie is probably the worst allrounder we've had since re-admission.

I have not watched the games but note Morne got 5. His extra pace and bounce was too much for the black caps. I always thought our pace attacked would be too hot for them to handle

Quite a quartet you name Denny. What we need most now is a high quality all rounder to emmerge.