• BATSMEN
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    8.3 gone! Sharp return catch from Santner. The dots were piling for Vince, and this time he mistimes a push. Santner bowled it short, and angled it in, as Vince ended up playing aerial punch back. Santner tumbled to his right full stretch, and completed the catch 60/4
    2.3 top edge... and taken! Curran waits and waits for the ball to arrive, and keeps his eyes all along to finally catch it at fine leg. Boult bowled it on the shorter side just outside off, but the ball didn't seemed to have bounced as much as Waseem expected. He went ahead with the pull shot, but the ball flew off the top edge for a simple catch for Curran 21/1
    4.5 bowled him!! The ball trims the stumps. Jarvis hits the top of off with this lovely ball. He angles it into Tector, and bowls it short on off. The ball straightens after pitching, and Tector is beaten by that as he looks to guide it behind the wicket 45/2
    6.5 Santner barely finishes appealing, and it's given out. Mitchell reviews, though. It looks plumb from the first slow-mo replay, but we'll wait. Santner bowls a fullish ball around off, as he gets the ball to dip on to Mitchell. The latter goes for the sweep off this ball on a stump-to-stump line, but misses. The ball goes below the bat, and there's no bat or glove involved. Yup, Mitchell's gone. Ball tracking shows the ball would have gone on to hit the top of leg 54/3
    8.6 loud appeal for lbw, and given! And guess what - Calitz reviews too. The third umpire is hardly allowed a break. Santner bowled a quicker one, and went full in and around off. Calitz was deep in the crease as he looked to clip, and missed. There's no inside edge there. Ball tracking confirms Calitz is gone. The ball is shown to go on to hit the lower half of the middle stump, with Santner's third wicket confirmed 61/5
    15.2 Too short and the batter wants to swipe this pull out to deep square leg... Except he can't get enough elevation on this. The ball lands right in the fielder's hand, stationed there for this shot 95/8
    10.1 Rapped on the pads and Santner's finding it too easy at the moment! Was sliding into the batter's pads, who misses this flick and sells his wicket down the river as a result 65/6
    14.3 And this time, yes, Ashwin finally departs going for the same aerial flick... Was on a length and drifting into his pads. Ashwin shovels this in the air, and right to Adair, who doesn't drop this unlike Boult earlier 83/7
    not out
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    5
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    40
    16.4 This is turning out to be a fun battle, except Santner is the obvious winner here! Was floated up once again, batter dances down the track looking to take him on. Bat twirls in his hands and the ball goes out to Trent Boult at long-on, who finally pouches one and lets out a smile of relief 104/9
    17.6 And that wraps up the innings. Boult got hit for a four and he's come back with a measured response: a beautiful length ball, angling away from Little, who puts one foot out of the way to send this out of the ground. He misses. The ball takes out his leg stump instead, on the inside edge! Guardians have been a shambles, and bundled out for 109 here... 109/10
    Extras
    3 (lb 1, w 2)
    TOTAL
    109 all out (18 Overs, RR: 6.05)
    Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Muhammad Waseem, 2.3 ov), 2-45 (Harry Tector, 4.5 ov), 3-54 (Daryl Mitchell, 6.5 ov), 4-60 (James Vince, 8.3 ov), 5-61 (Ben Calitz, 8.6 ov), 6-65 (George Dockrell, 10.1 ov), 7-83 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 14.3 ov), 8-95 (Sanjay Krishnamurthi, 15.2 ov), 9-104 (Matt Hollard, 16.4 ov), 10-109 (Josh Little, 17.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    TA Boult302026.66104000
    TK Curran30211761100
    MRJ Watt40280773010
    J Jarvis1051541000
    MJ Santner401654140110
    JT Smuts30181660100
  • BATSMEN
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    0.6 taken on the second attempt! Tector was close in at cover, and leapt and got a hand. But he didn't catch it at once, although got it second time. Wood angled it in, and bowled short and wide of off. Adair went hard for the cut, but couldn't clear the fielder. Massive over for Rockers nevertheless 25/1
    8.3 Back of a length and this time Smuts boshes a drive straight to Ashwin and almost takes his hands off! Ashwin pouches it, no hesitation, though, and wrests his hands in the air because of how much it hurts. At least it's a wicket! 87/4
    1.2 gone! Another one falls to the short ball outside off. This one goes straight into the lap of cover point. Gous goes for a golden duck. Hollard bowled it short and just outside off, as Gous went for the cut after seeing the length. But he ended up hitting it exactly where the fielder was placed 26/2
    2.3 confident appeal for lbw, and given. No lack of action in this innings so far. McM went for the reverse sweep, and missed. Dockrell bowled a length ball angling into off, and the ball straightened after pitching. McM was struck just above his knee on his back leg, with the ball skidding through off the pitch 46/3
    12.2 The stumps are absolutely rattled! Goes down on one knee and he swipes across the line, one hand comes off his handle and he's castled 103/5
    12.5 Another huge swipe across the line and he goes on the back foot, looks for a swivel-pull. Speared in at the stumps and he's rattled the stumps once more 106/6
    not out
    4
    2
    0
    0
    200
    not out
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    4
    0
    0
    75
    Extras
    5 (nb 2, w 3)
    TOTAL
    110/6 (13.4 Overs, RR: 8.04)
    Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Ross Adair, 0.6 ov), 2-26 (Andries Gous, 1.2 ov), 3-46 (Brandon McMullen, 2.3 ov), 4-87 (JJ Smuts, 8.3 ov), 5-103 (Laurie Evans, 12.2 ov), 6-106 (Gareth Delany, 12.5 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    CP Wood203211623201
    MK Hollard101211211011
    GH Dockrell402736.7580110
    R Ashwin40200591000
    JB Little20161863010
    HT Tector0.40304.510000

Match Notes

Rockers 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st25JT SmutsGR Adair
2nd1JT SmutsAGS Gous
3rd20JT SmutsB McMullen
4th41LJ EvansJT Smuts
5th16LJ EvansGJ Delany
6th3TK CurranGJ Delany
7th4MJ SantnerTK Curran