Devon Conway topped all scorers with 60 off 49 balls as New Zealand beat South Africa by 68 runs in the second T20 to level their five-match series at 1-1.<\/p>\n
The Blackcaps made 175\/6 after being sent in on Tuesday on a pitch which became trickier as the evening wore on.<\/p>\n
South Africa was bowled out for 107 in 15.3 overs as pacers Ben Sears and Lockie Ferguson took three wickets each. Batters struggled for timing on a pitch which provided variable pace and bounce and all 10 South Africa wickets fell to catches.<\/p>\n
The tourists lost their last six wickets for 40 runs and only George Linde stood against the collapse, scoring 33 from 12 balls with three fours and three sixes.<\/p>\n
Sears, New Zealand’s travelling reserve at the recent T20 World Cup, took 3-14. Ferguson took 3-16, dismissing Linde to end the innings.<\/p>\n
Blackcaps cash in in the final over | Sport Nation Cricket<\/p>\n
“I thought we bowled really well up to a point and then lost our way with the bat,” South Africa captain Keshav Maharaj said.<\/p>\n
New Zealand began their inning strongly with Conway scoring square of the wicket and Tom Latham using ramp shots for a six and a four over fine leg.<\/p>\n
They were 43 without loss after the powerplay and 81\/2 after 10 overs, including Latham (11) picking out Ottneil Baartman at third man with a reverse sweep.<\/p>\n
But New Zealand wasn’t able to accelerate early in the second part of its innings as the dew settled and the pitch at Seddon Park became more two-paced.<\/p>\n
Nick Kelly had 21 from 12 balls then played and missed at a ball from Wiaan Mulder and was bowled, and Mitchell Santner made 20 from 14 before being beaten by a ball from Baartman which cut back between bat and pad.<\/p>\n
New Zealand were 123\/4 after 15 and soon after lost Conway, who had held up one end for three quarters of the innings. He top-edged a pull shot to wicketkeeper Connor Esterhuizen.<\/p>\n
Josh Clarkson cameoed with 26 from nine balls and he and Cole McConchie helped themselves to 24 runs from the last over bowled by Maharaj.<\/p>\n
The third international will be at Auckland’s Eden Park on Friday.<\/p>\n
Tune into Sport Nation for live commentary of every Blackcaps & White Ferns match against South Africa – download the app today on Google Play<\/a> and the App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n Josh Clarkson following the Blackcaps win in Hamilton | Sport Nation Cricket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devon Conway topped all scorers with 60 off 49 balls as New Zealand beat South Africa by 68…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-546813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}