FINAL DAY
Proteas on the ropes in Hamilton
SA resume needing 95 more runs to make new Zealand bat again and they’ll hope like hell Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock score them all and then some
Hamilton — Proteas assistant coach Adrian Birrell has been shot in this movie before and he was not about to let the credits roll in SA’s Test series in New Zealand. At stumps at Seddon Park on Tuesday‚ the fourth day of the third Test‚ SA were 80/5 in their second innings. They will resume on Wednesday needing 95 more runs to make new Zealand bat again and they will hope like hell that Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock — who will resume‚ each not out on 15 — score all of those and then some. "Once [New Zealand] got ahead of us by a hundred runs, it was always going to be a fight for survival‚" Birrell said of New Zealand’s total of 489‚ built on Kane Williamson’s 176. "But we’ve had these [situations] before — we will fight. We have a captain who is very determined and who has fought before. We haven’t lost yet. We are 95 runs behind and there are 98 overs tomorrow — we can fight it out." Du Plessis famously batted for almost eight hours on debut to score an undefeated 110 and sav...
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