If Michael Holding was the Rolls Royce, this guy has to be a Ferrari! 17.1: 1 run to McCullum. 17.2: No run. Can't make contact. 17.3: No ball 17.3(again): *Free Hit*. Full and outside off. No run. 17.4: Wide ball. 1 run. 17.4(again): flicked to no man's land over square leg. 1 run 17.5: Slogged...

16.3: Vettori comes to the crease. But McCullum is on strike. Can't connect with this one.Straight and on and around off stump. Swings predeteminately. No run. 16.4: Again ... similar ball. Similar swing. Similar result. No run. 16.5: Would you believe it ... these things seem to come in 3s today...

Morkel comes back for his last fro the Garner end. 16.1: Hopkins gets underneath this one and beautifully drives it over extra cover for 6 RUNS. 16.2: OUT! Can't keep this up. Slashes at one outside off ... finds Steyn on the boundary. 123/7 in 16.2 ov., New Zealand.

Steyn now. 15.1: Yorker! Hopkins more than just digs it out and they get 1 run. 15.2: Oram now on strike to Steyn. Watching Steyn in person here is fantastic. The way he accelerates to the crease is so brilliant! And ... oh ORam misses the ball completely. Hits his pad. He looks plumb in front. Looks...

Langeveldt into his 3rd. 14.1: Hopkins slaps this one to sweeper cover for 1 run. 14.2: Styris edges the ball to thirdman for 1 run. Wild throw back from Steyn but batsmen weren't attmepting more than 1 anyway. 14.3: Hopkins upper cuts this one over Steyn at thirdman for 6 RUNS. Very nicely played...

There goes Styris. 13.1: He lines this one from Kallis up ... plays it on the rise ... places it adeptly to extra cover for 4 RUNS. 13.2: No run. 13.3: One run to deep midwicket. 13.4: Very short one ... soars over Hopkin's head ... Boucher barely pouches it. Called wide by Dar. 13.4(Again): Kallis...

And ... a wicket does fall now. It will be very difficult for New Zealand now. But Styris has been there and done that before. Oram is also yet to come. Hopkins for now. 89.4 in 13 ov., New Zealand.

Botha again. 11.1: 1 run to Styris. 11.2: Taylor straight slaps the ball past Styris' ears for a well-timed 4 RUNS. Styris has been putting things in Taylor's ear these past few balls. 11.3: 6 RUNS!! Taylor plays his cuatomary slog-sweep over deep square leg. 11.4: This time, he punches the ball...

104 needed in 10 overs. 10.1: Kallis continues. Beautiful line on and around off stump. Taylor can't get it away. No run. 10.2: Again similar length and line. Taylor tries to work it on the leg for a run. Hits his pad and so they change ends for 1 run. 10.3: Another one bowled well. Very well. Climbs...

9.1: Short ball from Botha. Punched off the back foot to long off by Ryder. 1 run. 9.2: OVer pitched and turning well. Taylor turns it to square leg for 1 run. 9.3: Full toss coming round the wicket to Ryder from Botha. Ryder places it between midwicket and long on for 4 RUNS. 9.4: OUT!! Ryder comes...