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August 28, 2000
SINGAPORE (AP) - South Africa scored an emphatic 93-run win over Pakistan to lift the Singapore Challenge 2000 triangular cricket title at the Kallang ground on Sunday.
In a rain-shortened game, South Africa, who had their final tally revised from 197 for seven to 214 in 35 overs after the application of the Duckworth-Lewis rule, bowled Pakistan out for 121 to to emerge victors.
The final, which got off to a slightly delayed start because of early morning showers, was interrupted with the South African score reading 70 for two after 15 overs.
Play was held up for about two hours and the match was reduced to a 35 overs-per-side affair. South Africa ended up with 197 for seven on the board, but had their tally boosted by the rain rule, leaving Pakistan to get 215 for victory.
Pakistan was never really in the race after losing three wickets early.
Imran Nazir fell in the second over for one as he tried a cross-batted heave off Roger Telemachus. Nazir only managed to sky it to mid-on where Gary Kirsten judged it to perfection.
Shaun Pollock got rid off birthday boy Yousuf Youhana after he had scored just eight. Youhana, who shares his birthday with 92-year-old Australian batting great Sir Donald Bradman, tried to chip the ball over mid-on but failed to clear Nicky Boje.
Saleem Elahi, playing in place of Shahid Afridi, made an attractive 26 off 36 balls before being dismissed leg-before wicket by Telemachus.
Saeed Anwar struggled throughout the match with an injured knee that had kept him out of the last match. Anwar and Ijaz Ahmed held up South Africa's march to victory, but only briefly, with a 39-run stand for the fourth wicket. But Kirsten caught Anwar, who had once escaped being run out, yards (meters) out of his crease by a throw to the wicketkeeper from the deep as the batsman attempted a second run.
Abdur Razzaq, who had conceded 54 runs off his seven overs earlier in the day, was caught and bowled by Lance Klusener and Azhar Mahmood was trapped in front of the stumps by Boje with the one which straightened after pitching to reduce Pakistan to 76 for five.
Ijaz merely delayed the inevitable with a few bold shots towards the end. He was unlucky to be ruled leg before wicket to Klusener as the ball appeared to have got a faint inside edge on to his bat.
Ijaz made 31 to end up as Pakistan's most successful batsman in the series.
Earlier, the South Africans got off to a poor start after Pollock had won the toss and elected to bat. Waqar Younis and Kabir Khan bowled hostile opening spells as the South African openers struggled to put bat to the ball.
While Kabir got the ball to move in the air in overcast conditions, Waqar was able to extract disconcerting bounce as he bent his back on a wicket that aided lateral movement.
Kabir drew first blood for Pakistan when he had Andrew Hall caught low down at point by Ijaz for five. Waqar, who was unplayable in his opening spell, was unlucky not to pick up the wicket of Jacques Kallis.
The blond South African batsman, going through a lean patch, was dropped by wicketkeeper Atiq-uz Zaman, but failed to make it count.
A tentative push resulted in an inside edge on to his stumps as Kabir picked up his second wicket and Kallis departed for one.
The South African team management promoted Boje in the order in a bid to regain the lost advantage. He justified the faith placed in him by scoring at run a ball in the company of the seasoned Kirsten, who once again top-scored with 62.
Kirsten, who made 191 runs in the tournament, walked away with the Man of the Series award.
However, it was Boje who was the star turn. Having come in at two for 29, he hit the ball cleanly and took the score to 70 for two when rain held up play. They carried on the good work after resumption, stretching their third wicket association to 97 before Kirsten missed the line of a Mahmood delivery and was bowled.
Boje, who hit a wonderful six off Arshad Khan in addition to half-a-dozen boundaries in what was clearly a match-winning knock of 54, was adjudged the Man of the Match.
Scoreboard in the South Africa-Pakistan one-day international at the Singapore Challenge at the Kallang ground on Sunday: South Africa won the toss and batted first South Africa Gary Kirsten b Mahmood 62 Andrew Hall c Ijaz b Kabir 5 Jacques Kallis b Kabir 1 Nicky Boje c Elahi b Arshad 54 Lance Klusener c Arshad b Razzaq 12 Daryll Cullinan not out 31 Neil McKenzie b Razzaq 3 Boeta Dippenaar c substitute (Younis) b Waqar 17 Shaun Pollock not out 2 Extras: (leg-byes-6, no-balls-3, wide-1) 10 Total: (for seven wickets in 35 overs) 197. Fall of wickets: 1/7, 2/29, 3/126, 4/138, 5/143, 6/152, 7/188. Bowling: Waqar Younis 7-1-28-1, Kabir Khan 7-0-33-2, Abdur Razzaq 7-0-54-2, Azhar Mahmood 7-0-48-1, Arshad Khan 7-1-28-1. Pakistan target revised to 215 after application of Duckworth-Lewis rule for rain-interrupted games. Pakistan Imran Nazir c Kirsten b Telemachus 1 Saleem Elahi lbw Telemachus 26 Yousuf Youhana c Boje b Pollock 8 Saeed Anwar run out 24 Ijaz Ahmed lbw Klusener 31 Abdur Razaaq c & b Klusener 0 Azhar Mahmood lbw Boje 0 Atiq-uz Zaman c Pollock b Hall 18 Waqar Younis c Cullinan b Pollock 11 Arshad Khan run out 0 Kabir Khan not out 0. Extras (leg-bye-1, no-ball-1) 2. Total: (all out in 28.1 overs) 121. Fall of wickets: 1/7, 2/33, 3/35, 4/74, 5/75, 6/76, 7/102, 8/119, 9/119. Bowling: Shaun Pollock 6.1-0-26-2, Roger Telemachus 6-1-20-2 , Jacques Kallis 4-1-9-0, Lance Klusener 7-0-35-2 , Nicky Boje 4-0-24-1, Andrew Hall 1-0-6-1. Result: South Africa won by 93 runs. Man of the Match: Nicky Boje.
Man of the Series: Gary Kirsten.
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