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00:00It's a long hop, he could be out over Adams' head, it goes all the way, that's what the
00:10skipper needed to do.
00:11Bad delivery but it was a beautiful stroke from the new batsman at the crease, a perfect
00:16pull shot.
00:17Shot, well it's not a great delivery with a fine leg up, it's a slower ball, it was
00:28short, sat up nicely, which it does on this wacker wicket, it was well put away, certainly
00:36a veteran of this form of the game, but I dare say a little bit nervous.
00:44Everyone's starting to talk, Pollock and Rhodes, Fleming's running up to his bowler Franklin,
00:48the crowd are up on their feet, whether they're South Africans, we're not sure, they certainly
00:56do enjoy the way Rhodes plays his cricket.
01:01There's pressure on, what's Fleming going to come up with, he's going to bring mid-on
01:03up, there's no easy single down there, and that's a pretty good move, I don't think Jonty
01:09often hits over mid-on, I'm pretty sure even if he hits it to that man where he's going
01:15to stand, there's a single anyway, so it's really not doing the job of cutting off a
01:19single.
01:45What a job for his team that is, to come in when he did, 3 for 23, and peel off his second
01:53one day hundred, that's why the crowd appreciates it, no matter what nationality, done a job
01:57for Eastern New Zealand that catch.
01:59Oh that's nicely struck, that one's into the crowd, oh about 10 or 12 rows back, that's
02:08what Sean Pollock can do to you when you put him down the over before.
02:13His first chance in this situation of the match, down breeze, short boundary, a fellow
02:19like Pollock has only got to get the ball somewhere near the middle of his bat to go
02:23with that big full swing.
02:25His last 10 over disaster is happening again New Zealand, James Franklin can't get it up
02:51far enough to be a Yorker, and there's the outcome.
02:55Magnificent stroke play by Pollock.
02:58They must pay one hand off the seats here at the Wacka too, that gentleman there with
03:03the black shirt was claiming that, pretty sure they hit a seat, Stephen Fleming had
03:08a chat with James Franklin before this over, probably about keeping the ball up, yeah that's
03:12off the seat, bobs up, man the black, man the black shirt's claimed that, that's a shocker,
03:19there's no way that's out, I'm not walking on that.
03:25Third umpire decision, now Stephen Fleming's had to settle, he's got time, they're ahead
03:30of their over rate, he must make sure his bowler is very clear and give him enough confidence
03:37to do it.
03:40Oh it's straight again, that's flat, I'm not sure if that one's gone over the rope, yes
03:45it has, it's landed inside the ground, the rope's a good metre or two in along that boundary,
03:52it must have cleared the rope, and that's three sixes in a row to Pollock.
03:58Just gives himself enough room, stays outside leg stump, so even if it is a Yorker on the
04:03stumps, gives himself as good a chance as possible to hit a six.
04:10He's got it again, that's the biggest run, by what, well we've seen one 10 rows back,
04:20that's about 20 rows back, and that's Pollock's 50, he brings it up with four consecutive
04:26sixes, 55 off only 29 deliveries, the first 50 against New Zealand in one day cricket,
04:37what a way to bring it up, that one's huge.
04:43James Franklin tried, the shorter ball, tried to hit the length this time, and Pollock,
04:48because he's outside leg, just picked it up and sees it clearly, and smashes it, baseball
04:55style, over left field, that's the second sixes hit like that in this match, four consecutive,
05:00plus one other, five in the innings.
05:03Learn the hard way.
05:06Well that's a great shot, magnificent piece of improvisation, that's the lap sweep off
05:12a ball, 132 k's, and he's picked it up, chipped it up.
05:20Well that's gone, once again, it's that hitting length, you've got to be strong enough and
05:27a good enough player to hit it, and Sean Pollock is putting on an exhibition.
05:34Ball over left field too, full stride, again outside leg a little bit, but the length this
05:40time didn't jam him up, put down at long on.
05:47It's a bit firmly struck, Rhodes will get back to two, oh no he won't, gone right through
05:53mid-off to the boundary, moved in to the man this time, and it started so well for New
06:00Zealand after winning the toss, it's turned out very nicely for South Africa, after 50
06:05overs they've finished in 5 for 270.
06:08John T. Rhodes there on the right, 107 not out, and 135 balls.
06:16Sean Pollock 69 from 34.
06:21Sean Pollock 69 including four sixes in a row.