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Cricket World Cup: New Zealand in semis, South Africa in trouble
Sometime back in 2005, when the Super 8 stage began, nobody expected South Africa to struggle so much to be in the top four of the table. The Kiwis have simply continued their strong form from the group stages, having only one poor performance against Sri Lanka - but most teams have come up short against that lot.
South Africa on the other hand seem to be playing cricket in some form of binary system, but instead of zeros and ones they are awful or good; New Zealand got them on an awful day. Worryingly for England, who play them next, this means they will be good next game.
Put in to bat first, the Proteas reached a poor 193-7 with Gibbs top scoring on 60. It was never going to be enough. New Zealand saw this off comfortably to win by 2 wickets. [lee calvert]
April 15, 2007 in ICC World Cup 2007, New Zealand cricket, One-day cricket, South Africa cricket | Permalink | 
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New Zealand are going to win the world cup by a mile :D
Posted by: Flatmate | 16 Apr 2007 22:47:19
couldn't agree more fella.
They do play the Aussies next though, and hopefully they won't rest Bond & Vettori!
Posted by: lee calvert | 16 Apr 2007 22:56:39
