Not our best day obviously, admits http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HM-Amla-c1557 – Cricket News Update
The experienced top order batsman of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 at Dunedin today, March 7, 2012.
The Proteas were reeling at 191 for 7, when the field umpires removed the bails on day one with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vernon-Philander-c2753 at the crease on 46 and 4 respectively. After being put into bat under bowling friendly overcast conditions, the visitors
went off to a steady start, losing only a solitary wicket in the opening session for 86 runs. But soon after the tea interval, New Zealand pacer Chris Martin struck thrice in four balls, removing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887, to leave them
precariously at 90 for 4.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hamisi-Abdallah-c61368 is so far the top scorer for the Proteas in their first innings with 62 off 102 balls. He, however, rued that he and his fellow batsmen failed to capitalise on their good starts.
"It's not our best day obviously,” said Amla speaking to media reporters at the post-day press conference on Wednesday.
“We were in a good position at 60 for one or something. We've still got a few guys to bat so let's see how far we can take it. It was disappointing that myself and Graeme and the guys who got in didn't capitalise on it," he added further.
Earlier, a wet outfield delayed the start of the match and New Zealand skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849, who returned to the field after an injury layoff of almost two months, put the tourists into bat, keeping in mind the overcast conditions. Surprisingly the Black
Caps seamers struggled to extract movement out of the wicket in the opening session. The ball started to move by the end of the day, and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Smith-c90598, Kallis and de Villiers quite easily.
Amla was happy with the way the wicket behaved in the morning session but he was surprised to see the ball moving in the latter half of the day.
"The wicket played quite well. There wasn't a lot of seam movement, but as the day went on I think the ball started to do a bit more in the last session," said Amla. “The wicket was good but unfortunately we just had some soft dismissals that we're ruing
at the moment," he added further.
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