Australia Cricket Bangladesh Cricket England Cricket New Zealand Cricket Sri Lanka Cricket South Africa Cricket West Indies Cricket Zimbabwe Cricket

New Zealand vs South Africa Cricket Series 2007

New Zealand will play 3 ODIs & 1 T20, followed by 2 test matches during the South Africa tour starting October 25 2007.

Get the latest news of New Zealand's 2007 South Africa Tour

Schedule

New Zealand in South Africa Cricket Series 2007

New Zealand vs South Africa First ODI at Durban

SA vs NZ, 1st ODI, Durban: Andre Nel secures last-ball win for South Africa

Nov 26, 2007

Andre Nel hit the final ball of the match over cover to give South Africa a dramatic two-wicket win over New Zealand in the first one-day international.
The Proteas required 11 off the final over to reach their target of 249 and the Kiwis looked in control with nine needed from the last three balls. But Nel hit back-to-back boundaries through the covers off Mark Gillespie to draw the scores level and his chip into the off-side off their final ball brought up the single needed for victory. Morne van Wyk was bowled by Kyle Mills before the Proteas had a run on the board.
South Africa struggled to find the gaps and Mills then dismissed Jacques Kallis with a fantastic ball that squared him up and induced a nick to Ross Taylor at slip leaving the hosts struggling on nine for two. The Proteas recovered through Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers who took the score to 100 before Smith was controversially given out by the third umpire.
The South Africa skipper pulled a Scott Styris long-hop to deep mid-wicket where Chris Martin took a safe catch but replays proved inconclusive as to whether the New Zealander had touched the rope as he took the catch. The third umpire gave Martin the benefit of the doubt and Smith was gone for 44. South Africa looked to be cruising to victory until Daniel Vettori took a tremendous catch off his own bowling to remove De Villiers for 87 and make the score 172 for four.
With South Africa under pressure, needing 63 from 48 balls, Jean-Paul Duminy smashed Styris for six over mid-wicket to ease the required run-rate. And Nel ended with figures of three for 46 from 10 overs.

SA vs NZ, 1st ODI, Durban: South Africa 249-8 (50 overs) beat New Zealand 248-6 (50 overs) by two wickets

New Zealand in South Africa Cricket Series 2007

First ODI at Durban

Scores

South Africa won the toss and decided to field

New Zealand Innings

248 for 6 (50.0 overs)

South Africa Innings

249 for 8 (50.0 overs)

New Zealand Innings - Close

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Vincent		b Ntini	6	13	0	1
McCullum		b Botha	40	67	4	0
How		b Nel	90	124	11	0
Styris	c Botha	b Nel	40	45	1	0
Taylor	c Nel	b A Morkel	20	22	1	1
Sinclair	not out		32	23	3	1
Hopkins		b Nel	0	1	0	0
Mills	not out		9	6	0	0
Extras		1nb 5w 5lb	11
Total		for 6	248	(50.0 ovs)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Pollock	10.0	4	21	0
Ntini	9.0	0	62	1
Nel	10.0	0	46	3
A Morkel	10.0	0	54	1
Botha	9.0	0	44	1
Duminy	2.0	0	16	0

Fall of wicket
12	Vincent
84	McCullum
159	Styris
195	Taylor
223	How
223	Hopkins

South Africa Innings - Close

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
van Wyk		b Mills	0	4	0	0
Smith	c Martin	b Styris	44	64	4	0
Kallis	c Taylor	b Mills	1	15	0	0
de Villiers	c and b	Vettori	87	103	9	0
Duminy	c sub	b Martin	46	59	3	1
Boucher	not out		35	37	3	0
Pollock	c Taylor	b Mills	6	5	1	0
A Morkel	c McCullum	b Mills	0	2	0	0
Botha	c Vincent	b Mills	6	6	0	0
Nel	not out		10	5	2	0
Extras		10w 4lb	14
Total		for 8	249	(50.0 ovs)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Mills	10.0	2	25	5
Gillespie	10.0	3	50	0
Martin	10.0	0	65	1
Vettori	10.0	0	47	1
Styris	10.0	0	58	1

Fall of wicket
0	van Wyk
9	Kallis
100	Smith
172	de Villiers
211	Duminy
220	Pollock
222	A Morkel
238	Botha

Back to top

Umpires: M R Benson, B G Jerling
South Africa: Smith, van Wyk, Duminy, Kallis, de Villiers, Boucher, Pollock, A Morkel, Botha, Nel, Ntini
New Zealand: Vincent, McCullum, How, Taylor, Styris, Sinclair, Hopkins, Vettori, Mills, Gillespie, Martin