Kane Williamson's Century seals Momentum ODI series

Kane Williamson's brilliant innings has sealed the Momentum ODI series for the New Zealanders.After having a tough time during the test matches where New Zealand lost both the 1st and the 2nd test miserably  this was a great comeback.They played like true champions today setting up a stiff target of 280 Runs for the South Africans.The South Africans while batting looked very comfortable and one stage it looked like they were easily make it but after loosing the wicket of Graeme Smith it was all downhill for them as they kept loosing wickets regularly and had 5 Run outs in their innings which didn't help their cause either.New Zealand on the other hand kept their nerve and did not panic even when the South African's were 167 for the loss of one wicket.The best thing New Zealand did was grabbed the opportunity which was presented to them and their ground fielding was superb compared to the South Africans who were a bit untidy.New Zealand have won the series 2-0 with one more match to be played on Friday(25/01/2013).


Highlights of the match:

New Zealand Batting & Bowling:

Kane Williamson - Batting - 145(136)*

Grant Elliott - Batting - 48(63)

Kyle Mills - Bowling - 2 Wickets for 28 Runs

South Africa Bowling & Batting:

Morne Morkel - Bowling - 3 Wickets for 71 Runs

Colin Ingram - Batting - 79(94)

Graeme Smith - Batting - 66(75)

Full Scorecard:

New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum)	Dismissal	R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
MJ Guptill	c du Plessis b Kleinveldt	0	10	10	0	0	0
BJ Watling	lbw b Morkel	12	53	33	2	0	36.36
KS Williamson	not out	145	207	136	17	1	106.61
GD Elliott	c †de Kock b Kleinveldt	48	84	63	5	0	76.19
BB McCullum*†	b Morkel	17	12	10	2	1	170
C Munro	c Ingram b Tsotsobe	9	14	13	1	0	69.23
JEC Franklin	b Tsotsobe	0	2	1	0	0	0
JDS Neesham	run out (du Plessis/Tsotsobe)	5	6	4	1	0	125
NL McCullum	c Tsotsobe b Morkel	19	27	23	1	0	82.6
KD Mills	not out	15	10	7	1	1	214.28
Extras	(lb 4, w 5)	9
Total	(8 wickets; 50 overs; 218 mins)	279	(5.58 runs per over)
Did not bat MJ McClenaghan
Fall of wickets 1-0 (Guptill, 2.4 ov), 2-32 (Watling, 12.3 ov), 3-159 (Elliott, 33.5 ov), 4-188 (BB McCullum, 36.5 ov), 5-201 (Munro, 39.4 ov), 6-202 (Franklin, 39.6 ov), 7-211 (Neesham, 41.3 ov), 8-245 (NL McCullum, 47.4 ov)
South Africa Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	Extras
RK Kleinveldt	10	2	45	2	4.5	(1w)
LL Tsotsobe	10	2	38	2	3.8	(1w)
M Morkel	10	1	71	3	7.1	(1w)
R McLaren	8	0	57	0	7.12	(2w)
RJ Peterson	9	0	45	0	5
F du Plessis	3	0	19	0	6.33
South Africa innings (target: 280 runs from 50 overs)	Dismissal	R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
Q de Kock†	b Mills	25	37	28	1	2	89.28
GC Smith	run out (Franklin/†BB McCullum)	66	127	75	8	0	88
CA Ingram	c Watling b NL McCullum	79	110	94	10	0	84.04
F du Plessis*	run out (NL McCullum)	2	6	3	0	0	66.66
F Behardien	run out (Guptill/†BB McCullum)	31	63	40	1	1	77.5
DA Miller	run out (NL McCullum)	14	31	24	0	0	58.33
R McLaren	c Guptill b Franklin	2	8	5	0	0	40
RK Kleinveldt	run out (Guptill)	0	2	1	0	0	0
RJ Peterson	c NL McCullum b Mills	0	12	4	0	0	0
M Morkel	not out	19	22	14	0	2	135.71
LL Tsotsobe	b Neesham	9	16	8	1	0	112.5
Extras	(w 4, nb 1)	5
Total	(all out; 49.1 overs; 221 mins)	252	(5.12 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-38 (de Kock, 8.2 ov), 2-167 (Smith, 30.2 ov), 3-174 (du Plessis, 31.4 ov), 4-180 (Ingram, 34.3 ov), 5-211 (Miller, 42.2 ov), 6-215 (McLaren, 43.6 ov), 7-216 (Kleinveldt, 44.2 ov), 8-224 (Behardien, 45.2 ov), 9-232 (Peterson, 46.2 ov), 10-252 (Tsotsobe, 49.1 ov)
New Zealand Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	Extras
KD Mills	9	2	28	2	3.11
MJ McClenaghan	10	0	51	0	5.1	(2w)
NL McCullum	10	0	56	1	5.6	(1w)
KS Williamson	3	0	22	0	7.33
JEC Franklin	10	0	52	1	5.2	(1w)
JDS Neesham	3.1	0	20	1	6.31
GD Elliott	4	0	23	0	5.75	(1nb)