- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR43.4 cut to the point fielder, very hard, but TM Rhodes (That Man Rhodes), with a magnificent 2 metre dive to his left picks up and sends to Kallis at the bowler's end 204/315.3 coming over the wicket, angling in from wide of the crease, then extracts the perfect amount of outseam, Tendu trying it flick it on the on side, instead gets the edge to the keeper 67/141.4 lovely yorker, inswinging on the off stump, just trying to defensive on the on side, missed, bye bye off stump 197/249.3 swats it over the covers, looks to be heading for a 6, but no! around runs Boje with a lovely running catch on the boundary 247/548.1 fast ball on the off stump, pulled down the wicket, lofted too much, down the throat of Kirsten at wide long on 233/4Extras25 (b 6, lb 2, nb 6, w 11)TOTAL253/5 (50 Overs, RR: 5.06)Fall of wickets: 1-67 (Sachin Tendulkar, 15.3 ov), 2-197 (Rahul Dravid, 41.4 ov), 3-204 (Sourav Ganguly, 43.4 ov), 4-235 (Ajay Jadeja, 48.2 ov), 5-247 (Mohammad Azharuddin, 49.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB SM Pollock 10 0 47 0 4.7 0 4 JH Kallis 10 1 43 0 4.3 2 0 AA Donald 10 0 34 1 3.4 2 0 L Klusener 10 0 66 3 6.6 2 2 N Boje 5 0 31 0 6.2 1 0 WJ Cronje 5 0 24 0 4.8 0 0
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Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR6.5 express ball pitching on the off stump, Kirsten trying to stroke it into the covers, Kirsten fails and plays on, Kirsten's stumps are down 22/22.4 seaming in a long way from outside off stump, strikes on the knee in front of the stumps, appeared to be enough doubt for not out, but no! we must wait fro thge Bucknor pause 13/114 just not smart enough to play Kumble, doesn't pick the googly at all, cutting with an angled bat over the top of it, ball spins into the off and middle stumps 68/325.4 Cullinane tries to lift Singh over midwikcet but takes the leading edge flies high to point 116/438.4 tries a similar wshot short ball slog dragged straight o midwicket who takes a very nice catch 180/5Extras17 (lb 4, nb 10, w 3)TOTAL254/6 (47.2 Overs, RR: 5.36)Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Herschelle Gibbs, 2.4 ov), 2-22 (Gary Kirsten, 6.5 ov), 3-68 (Mark Boucher, 13.6 ov), 4-116 (Daryll Cullinan, 25.4 ov), 5-180 (Hansie Cronje, 38.4 ov), 6-227 (Jacques Kallis, 45.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB J Srinath 10 0 69 2 6.9 1 4 BKV Prasad 8.2 0 32 0 3.84 1 0 A Kumble 10 0 44 1 4.4 1 0 AB Agarkar 9 0 57 1 6.33 0 5 RR Singh 2 0 10 0 5 0 0 SC Ganguly 4 0 16 1 4 0 1 SR Tendulkar 4 0 22 0 5.5 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
India , elected to bat first
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Match number
Season
Match days
15 May 1999 (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Points
South Africa 2, India 0
Match Notes
- 4th (reserve) umpire: MJ Harris
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