- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR11.3 got'm! good length delivery, pitched outside the off stump and drifting in. Nazir just swings across the line but misses the target by miles and that's as plumb as it gets. End of an entertaining knock. 80/20.4 Gotcha! Pollock lands one just outside off and it nips back in. Akmal misreads the line, doesn't offer a shot, and is rapped in front of off stump. The height was the question, was it going over? But Bucknor, after a long typical delay, raised his finger and that's that. Hawk eye suggests that the ball would have gone over the stumps. Akmal was unlucky there. 1/134.2 Khan departs! regular off-spinner, nothing special there - Khan comes down the track and tries to clear the fielder at long-off. Get the height but not the distance and Langeveldt in the deep nicely settles under it. 204/338.2 well, well, well! believe it or not, Inzi has managed to run himself out, once again! defended on the front-foot and the ball rolls away towards point. Inzi just takes off a single that was never there. Yousuf rightly stood his ground and before Inzi could make it back, Gibbs swooped in from point, picked the ball up - ran towards the stumps and disturbed the furniture 222/4Extras10 (lb 5, nb 1, w 4)TOTAL351/4 (50 Overs, RR: 7.02)Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Kamran Akmal, 0.4 ov), 2-80 (Imran Nazir, 11.3 ov), 3-204 (Younis Khan, 34.2 ov), 4-222 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 38.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB SM Pollock 10 1 53 1 5.30 35 9 0 0 0 M Ntini 9 1 71 0 7.88 19 7 2 0 0 A Nel 10 0 82 0 8.20 26 8 4 2 0 CK Langeveldt 9 0 61 1 6.77 27 5 2 1 1 JH Kallis 5 0 43 0 8.60 12 6 1 1 0 GC Smith 7 0 36 1 5.14 17 0 2 0 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR6.2 Asif takes out Smith! Lands on a length, on middle stump line, moves away, Smith is again opened up as he tries to turn it across the line and edges it to second slip, right into the palms of Younis. Pakistan strike first blow. The captain is out. Enter Jacques Kallis. 38/113.5 Razzaq prises out de Villiers. 87 for 2. Slightly short of length, and it hastens off the track, de Villiers goes for the pull and ends up shovelling a dolly to Younis at midwicket. 87/219.3 another big fish netted! short of a good length delivery outside the off stump, Kallis drives off the back-foot, not the perfect looking shot that we are so used to seeing. There was a sound as the ball passed the outside edge. Loud appeal and up goes the dreaded finger. South Africa four down and in deep trouble here. 113/418.3 All in due time but first he gets rid of Gibbs. All the same an Asif special, pitched close to the off stump line and nipping back in. Gibbs looks to play across the line and is beaten, ball thuds into the pad and they go up for an lbw. All that happened in real time and then it was Bucknor in slow motion. Up goes the finger and that's a priceless wicket 110/320.1 Redemption song for Mahmood. It took two years for him to come back into the team. He played for the county, for the domestic team and generally wallowed outside the team. But what a dramatic comeback, helped by Prince. Strikes gold with his first ball. Slightly wide outside the off stump, Prince slashes and edges it hard to right of Younis, the lone slipper, who lunges across to take a smart catch. 123/525.6 The forgotten men come to the party. First Mahmood and now Afridi.Cleans up Boucher with a top spinner. Lands on the off stump line, slightly short of length, and goes straight on, Boucher shapes to pull, bat comes down outside the line - he anticipated some turn, and the off stump is pegged back. 147/630.6 Gone! Malik strikes. Kemp is back in the hutch. On the off stump line, driven right back to Malik who takes it. South Africa are tottering here under lights. 179/740 That's it ... Pakistan wrap up comprehensive series-levelling win. Great comeback win from them. Victory by 141 runs. Akmal, who has been under the kosh, brings up the victory with a smart stumping. Malik slips it down the leg side, Pollock overbalances himself while trying to flick it and is dragged out of the crease. He can only get back his feet on the line before Akmal knocks the bails off. 210/1035.1 Afridi nails another victim. Slow through the air and it landed just outside leg stump before turning right across. Nel watched it turn, suddenly decided that it should be whipped across the line and ended up getting a inner edge. 190/839.3 Afridi puts Ntini out of misery. Tossed up outside off and Ntini couldn't resist a swing and warms the palms of long off 208/9Extras13 (lb 4, nb 3, w 6)TOTAL210 all out (40 Overs, RR: 5.25)Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Graeme Smith, 6.2 ov), 2-87 (AB de Villiers, 13.5 ov), 3-110 (Herschelle Gibbs, 18.3 ov), 4-113 (Jacques Kallis, 19.3 ov), 5-123 (Ashwell Prince, 20.1 ov), 6-147 (Mark Boucher, 25.6 ov), 7-179 (Justin Kemp, 30.6 ov), 8-190 (Andre Nel, 35.1 ov), 9-208 (Makhaya Ntini, 39.3 ov), 10-210 (Shaun Pollock, 40 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Mohammad Asif 10 0 29 2 2.90 43 4 0 0 0 Naved-ul-Hasan 4 0 43 0 10.75 8 8 0 0 0 Abdul Razzaq 7 0 59 2 8.42 23 8 1 1 3 Azhar Mahmood 5 0 23 1 4.60 19 3 0 1 0 Shahid Afridi 9 1 25 3 2.77 36 2 0 0 0 Shoaib Malik 5 0 27 2 5.40 17 1 1 4 0
Match Details
Toss
Pakistan , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
5-match series level 1-1
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00 Interval 18.00-18.45, Second Session 18.45-22.15
Match days
7 February 2007 - day/night match (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Pakistan: 50 runs in 7.6 overs (48 balls), Extras 1
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 44 balls (Imran Nazir 43, Younis Khan 7, Ex 0)
- Imran Nazir: 50 off 32 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Drinks: Pakistan - 97/2 in 15.0 overs (Younis Khan 26, Mohammad Yousuf 11)
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- Pakistan: 100 runs in 15.5 overs (96 balls), Extras 3
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 60 balls (Younis Khan 29, Mohammad Yousuf 21, Ex 1)
- Younis Khan: 50 off 56 balls (6 x 4)
- Pakistan: 150 runs in 24.1 overs (147 balls), Extras 5
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 108 balls (Younis Khan 58, Mohammad Yousuf 37, Ex 5)
- Drinks: Pakistan - 190/2 in 32.0 overs (Younis Khan 83, Mohammad Yousuf 42)
- Pakistan: 200 runs in 32.5 overs (200 balls), Extras 8
- Mohammad Yousuf: 50 off 75 balls (4 x 4)
- Pakistan: 250 runs in 41.2 overs (252 balls), Extras 9
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 29 balls (Mohammad Yousuf 24, Shahid Afridi 27, Ex 1)
- Pakistan: 300 runs in 44.5 overs (273 balls), Extras 9
- Shahid Afridi: 50 off 20 balls (4 x 4, 4 x 6)
- 5th Wicket: 100 runs in 54 balls (Mohammad Yousuf 42, Shahid Afridi 60, Ex 1)
- Mohammad Yousuf: 100 off 110 balls (12 x 4)
- Pakistan: 350 runs in 49.5 overs (304 balls), Extras 10
- South Africa: 50 runs in 7.4 overs (46 balls), Extras 0
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Drinks: South Africa - 88/2 in 15.0 overs (JH Kallis 27, HH Gibbs 0)
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- South Africa: 100 runs in 16.5 overs (102 balls), Extras 3
- Ground Delay: South Africa - 113/4 in 19.4 overs (AG Prince 2, MV Boucher 0)
- South Africa: 150 runs in 26.5 overs (165 balls), Extras 8
- South Africa: 200 runs in 37.3 overs (232 balls), Extras 11
- One-day International Scorer : Gautham
- One-day International Commentators : Sriram Veera and Sajan Nair
Match Coverage
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