New Zealand vs http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 – 2nd Test – South Africa win by nine wickets
Another superlative performance from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 on the third day of the 2nd Test, played at the Seddon Park, Hamilton, today, March 17, 2012.
The hosts were already in trouble at the end of Day 2, where they had registered just 65 in their second innings for the loss of 4 wickets – still trailing their opponents by 3 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DL-Vettori-c1384 resumed from their overnight scores of 41 and 0 respectively, hoping to weather out the threat of a formidable Proteas bowling lineup. However, they came up short with Philander again at the top of his game.
He, along with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692 struck to remove Vettori. The left-hander
had been resolute in the early phases of the day but was undone by a short delivery, which surprised him and took the glove on the way to wicket-keeper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MV-Boucher-c2048.
Williamson however, dug hard and along with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kruger-van-Wyk-c1811, managed to accumulate watchfully. However, the scoring rate moved along slowly which kept the tourists firmly in front. Both had posted 42 for the sixth wicket and were seemingly poised to guide
their team into the lunch interval before Philander got rid of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Robert-Cowdrey-c60631 Wyk for 20.
That then instigated another late order collapse with resumption paving an end to the host’s innings. The pacer got the prized wicket of Williamson (77) after he induced the player to poke at a delivery, which resulted in an easy catch for Boucher, who completed
his 550th dismissal in Test cricket.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Doug-Bracewell-c1394 before Philander struck in successive overs to complete an astonishing six-for as the hosts were discharged on a lowly 168.
Chasing 101 to win, the Proteas lost opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HM-Amla-c1557 (46) than gathered pace and partnered in an unbroken stand of 98 to help their team to complete a comfortable victory.
Philander was deservedly awarded with the Player of the Match accolade with impressive match figures of 10 for 114.
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