{"id":8447,"date":"2012-02-29T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/cricket-amla-guides-south-africa-to-one-day-series-win-over-nz\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:29","slug":"cricket-amla-guides-south-africa-to-one-day-series-win-over-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-amla-guides-south-africa-to-one-day-series-win-over-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Amla guides South Africa to one-day series win over NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feb 29 (Reuters) – Hashim Amla missed out on a 10th
\ncentury but still guided South Africa to a comfortable
\nsix-wicket victory over New Zealand in their second one-day
\ninternational in Napier on Wednesday, sealing the series with a
\ngame to spare.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The visitors took the first match in Wellington by six
\nwickets and have now won their last four games in New Zealand,
\nhaving also taken the final two Twenty20 matches to clinch that
\nseries.<\/p>\n

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Amla, who made a blistering start with seven boundaries in
\nhis first 32 runs, anchored the innings with 92 before he nicked
\na delivery from legspinner Tarun Nethula to Brendon McCullum
\nwith the victory target of 231 well in sight.<\/p>\n

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Amla combined well with Faf du Plessis (34) and JP Duminy
\n(43) before captain AB de Villiers (31 not out) and Justin
\nOntong (17 not out) guided the visitors to victory in just 38.2
\novers, making a mockery of New Zealand’s innings.<\/p>\n

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The hosts had been dismissed for 230 in 47.3 overs after
\nfast bowler Morne Morkel had destroyed their lower order, twice
\nhaving hat-trick deliveries, before he finished with career-best
\nfigures of 5-38 from 9.3 overs.<\/p>\n

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McCullum and Martin Guptill (58) had combined for a 107-run
\npartnership to set New Zealand up for a score in excess of 300,
\nwidely considered the minimum required on the small McLean Park
\nground, when they took their batting power play after the 32nd
\nover with the score on 162-2.<\/p>\n

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The hosts then lost three wickets for 20 in five overs as
\nKane Williamson (13) and McCullum (85) threw away their wickets
\ntrying to smash Lonwabo Tsotsobe out of the park, before Jesse
\nRyder was then caught behind for a two-ball duck.<\/p>\n

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Morkel, who had figures of 0-33 off seven overs, then ran
\nthrough the lower order and finished off the innings when Andrew
\nEllis was caught in the deep for 17 to give the fast bowler his
\nfirst five-wicket haul in one-day internationals.<\/p>\n

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The final match is at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday
\nbefore the three-test series begins in Dunedin on March 7. \t<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by John
\nO’Brien; greg.stutchbury@thomsonreuters.com; +64 4 802 7982;
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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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