Fourth Day: Godzilla Gibbs & Sensible Styris

South Africa displayed world class batting as it should be while Netherlands had no answer to the onslaught of the likes of Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher. But, it was the effervescent Gibbs who overshadowed even a century performance by Kallis, by becoming the first batsman in the history of international cricket to hit 6 sixers in an over off Van Bunge. With an enormous total of 350 odd runs off 40 overs(the match overs being reduced due to overnight showers and a wet outfield), they easily won the match by 221 runs.

England batted inconsistently with partnerships being broken quite often with the upper and middle order struggling to score quickly in a quite slow pitch where Bond bowled a good line eventhough not at the pace he's expected to bowl ending up with 2 wickets and 19 runs off ten. England eventually being bowled out for 209 saw a glimmer of hope when Anderson struck in the beginning removing Lou Vincent and Fleming cheaply while Plunkett took care of the talented Mr.Ross. But, it was Scott Styris (87) along with Craig McMillan and Jacob Oram who plugged the hole in a sinking ship and made sure the sails and masts were intact as the Kiwis cruised slowly but surely to a good win.