Pro20 Cricket New Zealand tests South Africa

South Africa has won their final first round match against the New Zealand "black caps" in the 2009 ICC Pro20 Cricket World Cup after scoring a low 128 runs in their twenty overs. JP Duminy added 29 of 23 balls to the South African score. New Zealand bowled and field brilliantly to reduce the South African cricketers to a modest 128 runs. New Zealand had to score 15 runs from their last over bowled by Wayne Parnell to win the match but managed to score 13 runs leaving South Africa with a one run victory. New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum scored a patient 57 of 56 balls and the turning point in the match was when he was stumped of a Roelof van der Merwe delivery in the 17Th over. Once again the spinners was successful during the middle overs of the innings.

South Africa has been tested and they did not fail, to defend such a low score does say much about the character of the South African team. They will feel happy as this match would give them lots of confidence on the bowling aspect of their game going into the Super 8 round. I still feel that Albie Morkel should get in earlier as he can be destructive with the bat, he almost always comes in to late with not enough balls to spare.

Earlier in the day Pakistan beat the Netherlands by 82 runs to go through to the next round and sadly the Netherlands will pack their bags and head home.

Today's Pro20 matches:
Sri Lanka vs West Indies
India vs Ireland