Black Caps v South Africa

[Mokey]

Gees, Guptill is playing a great innings. Getting the singles, demolishing the bad ball. Top stuff.

175/2.

[mariner4life]

@Mokey be very careful with your wording...

but, in the words of the great (in hindsight) Bill Lawry "they're close enough if they're good enough here New Zealand"

[Gunner]

Was about to say, these boys have battled a bit in the last few overs, balls crashing into the pads quite often...
Then bang bang, they both smack a six each to get shit happening again.

[Chris B.]

@Chris-B. said in Black Caps v South Africa:

Guppy, "My hamstring's sore, I'm rusty and the pitch is tricky...ah fuck it, I'll smack a quick 50150".

@Guppy - "Pessimistic fuck - I've fixed it for you!"

[Virgil]

Too easy..

[MajorRage]

Never too late for a collapse in Black Caps land ...

[Gunner]

Oh Rosco, soft!

There was absolutely no need to play that shot.

3 will quickly become 4 no doubt with Fern favourite Ronchi out there now.

[westcoastie]

Ronchi batting...hope he gets out for nil. and we can finally get rid of him

[MN5]

@westcoastie said in Black Caps v South Africa:

Ronchi batting...hope he gets out for nil. and we can finally get rid of him

Always a massive chance of that

[westcoastie]

@MN5 Fuckin' aye... or call Guptill through for a totally unnecessary run whereby he does his hammy again...

[Gunner]

Guppy struggling to run now.
Two 3rd umpire run out referrals on consecutive balls.....
No more quick singles please!

[Mokey]

LOL, Guppy doesn't want to run, six, six, two. Game over. 180. Take a bow, son.

[westcoastie]

ironically, if Guptill was out again, its likely Ronchi would go to such is the balance of the side.

meanwhile Guptill says fuck you Ronchi, and smacks a bunch of sixes...

[Gunner]

Guppy rode a bit of luck late in that innings, but that's one hell of a knock. Well done young fulla.

[Rembrandt]

Amazing innings

[Donsteppa]

All hail Lord Sir Martin Guptill.

180* in a chase of 280.

[No Quarter]

In a chase of 280 Guppy goes and scores 64% if our runs. That's gotta be a record of some description. What an incredible innings after an injury break, some of the cleanest hitting you'll ever see.

[westcoastie]

@No-Quarter From what I can tell, he just replaced one A.Jones as 4th on the all time list...
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283997.html

[westcoastie]

and knocks himself out of the top 10... his 237 v WI, now the 11th highest percentage in a completed ODI Innings

[Chris B.]

Fantastic innings by Guppy. He's now got the three highest ODI scores by a New Zealander and Rossco's short-lived status as NZ's best ODI batsman is under severe threat.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_innings.html?class=2;id=5;type=team

Great innings by Luke Ronchi at five, as well. Summed up the situation perfectly and did exactly what was required. Cemented his spot in my mind.