Proteas take series against New Zealand with a little help from above
'Everyone would say New Zealand can count themselves very unlucky'
Kane Williamson was woken by a thief in the night in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. He saw nothing‚ but he knew what he was dealing with. “I heard it at about 4am‚” Williamson said. “I was sort of hoping that it might stop or it might come a little early and fine up.” What New Zealand’s captain heard was rain‚ come to steal his team’s thunder – a levelled test series against South Africa. It kept falling throughout the morning and into the afternoon‚ and at 1.20pm Bruce Oxenford and Rod Tucker walked to the middle of Seddon Park in one last scene of made-for-TV umpiring and declared the last day of the third test‚ well‚ dead in the water. That suited Russell Domingo just fine. “Today the weather was great‚” Domingo said. South Africa would have resumed their second innings on 80/5‚ needing another 95 to make New Zealand bat again. Things would have been just fine while the overnight pair‚ Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock‚ were at the crease. But would the rest of the order ha...
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