McConchie\u2019s off-spin meant New Zealand used him as a match-up for countering the Proteas left-handed batters, which worked when he dismissed Quinton de Kock and Ryan Rickelton in the second over, as the Blackcaps restricted South Africa to 169\/8.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"We talked about it sort of the last couple of days, but it even got finalised sort of just before warm-ups. So nice to come out and contribute and kind of start the ball rolling there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t played here previously, so I talked to the boys, and it was just from the spin point of view, kind of bowl hard into the wicket and see if we could get a little bit of grip early. But the way that the South African boys struck it there at the end, hopefully it\u2019s kind of flattening out and we\u2019ve got a bit of a chase I think,\u201d said McConchie to broadcasters at the innings break.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"We talked about it sort of the last couple of days, but it even got finalised sort of just before warm-ups. So nice to come out and contribute and kind of start the ball rolling there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Quizzed on if New Zealand would have taken this score at the start of the game, McConchie said, \u201cI think so. Stats probably lead a little bit higher, but as you say, if you\u2019ve got a great bowling attack, so we\u2019re going to have to be on top of our game, but we\u2019ll take that at the start.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n