Eden Park gives Morris a shock
Proteas face long straight boundaries at ground with painful memories
Eden Park in Auckland is the only rugby stadium in regular use as an international cricket venue‚ which helps explain why South Africans with bats and balls know the place better than their compatriots with odd-shaped balls. The Springboks first played a Test there in 1921‚ or almost 32 years before SA’s first cricket Test at the ground. But‚ more than 95 years after Boy Morkel’s Boks won 9-5 in front of a crowd of 40,000‚ the cricketers lead the score. The Springboks have taken on the All Blacks 11 times at Eden Park‚ where SA’s cricketers have played New Zealand in 13 games of all shapes and sizes. While the Boks have only two wins to show for their efforts‚ their cricket counterparts have won five and lost five with the other three drawn. Historic indeed‚ but it is all new to Chris Morris, who is on his first trip to New Zealand with the South African squad that have been picked to play a T20 and five one-day internationals. "It was a bit of a shock to my system [on Tuesday] when...
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