Every warm-up match had been interesting to watch due to the high scoring. In today's match Williamson tossed the coin in style and soon after winning the toss he nodded the head and took batting. It means they've already planned whether to go with batting/bowling on winning the toss. Same as what they had planned, things are working in favour of New Zealand team.
Weather conditions disturbed the match, yet everything is on time. Close to 350 runs can b expected as New Zealand have reached 243/3 in 40 overs. New player Chapman on the crease is now waiting for another fresh batsman from the pavilion.
New Zealand's innings stopped at 321 runs against South Africa. If New Zealand could have continued the way they started in the end, the score would have crossed 350 plus, but they were not very aggressive towards the end against the South African bowlers. I wouldn't say the South African bowlers bowled very well today, they picked up a wicket early in the game but then they didn't pick up wickets for a long time, due to overheating two players got off the field with good runs for the team.
South Africa took a total of six wickets against New Zealand and managed to pick up five of them in the last over which led to New Zealand's first innings total of 321 otherwise the first innings total could have been bigger.
New Zealand's run-scoring after the rain has increased, with South Africa likely to win by 321 runs. South Africa's bowlers were not in good bowling form from the start as they took only one wicket in the moments before the rain, so they could not put New Zealand under pressure. However, after the rains, South Africa's bowlers improved their bowling performance a bit, due to which they were able to take 6 wickets later, but today's match was an aggressive game between the two teams. However, South Africa are batting at the moment, they must score 322 runs to win today's match, which is a very tough task. However, South Africa were in a bit of embarrassment early on losing their wicket in the first over, but if they can hold on to the game at this point, they can reach the target set by New Zealand. South Africa now needs to score 291 runs from 258 balls to reach the target of victory, if no wickets fall then surely South Africa can reach this stage.