da realsbet： South Africa’s cricketers put the controversy of the past 24 hours behindthem with a courageous 53-run win in the sixth one-day international at theQueen’s Park Oval, dismissing the home side for 137 after they themselveswere bundled out for 190
Marcus Prior12-May-2001South Africa’s cricketers put the controversy of the past 24 hours behindthem with a courageous 53-run win in the sixth one-day international at theQueen’s Park Oval, dismissing the home side for 137 after they themselveswere bundled out for 190.Fielding an 11 which included all five of the players implicated inthe drug scandal which hit the team on Friday, South Africa dug as deep asthey have had to all tour and simply ground the West Indies out of a gamethey must have thought was theirs.It was a memorable day for debutant Andre Nel, the youngster picking up3-20 and looking for all the world like he was born to the internationalstage. The only disappointment for Nel was that he was not on the field atthe end of the game after pulling up lame in his ninth over.The fall of the first wicket was a special moment for Nel, Ganga’s edgeto Justin Kemp at first slip providing the huge fast bowler with his firstinternational scalp. Ganga made 11 as he and Shivnarine Chanderpaulstruggled to score off Nel and Shaun Pollock’s controlled line on or aroundoff-stump.Chanderpaul then played a supporting role as Brian Lara (43) began totake control. Lara looked in superb touch, driving Roger Telemachus throughcover for four and the next over pulling Jacques Kallis to the midwicketfence for four more.He struck two further boundaries in the first over from Kemp, but as heand Chanderpaul faltered over a single, Jonty Rhodes provided a masterclassin ground fielding, swooping from backward point and throwing down thestumps at the non-striker’s end with Lara well short of his ground. It wasprobably the moment South Africa started to believe.Chanderpaul’s vigil was then ended by a brilliant piece of bowling fromleft-arm wrist spinner Paul Adams, the batsman misreading a googly as hecame down the wicket to present Mark Boucher with a rare stumping.Chanderpaul gone for 27 from 84 balls.Nel then produced a double blow. The first was a brilliant climbingleg-cutter which Carl Hooper (8) nicked to Boucher, the second a horriblelong-hop at which Ricardo Powell (0) swung wildly to give Boucher anothercatch. The West Indies 108-5 and requiring over six an over.When Marlon Samuels swung wildly at Roger Telemachus and was bowled for 29,South Africa knew they had the game won. Ridley Jacobs (7) had already swungKallis high to Adams at deep square leg, and after Dinanath Ramnarine (1)edged Kemp to Boucher, Telemachus struck again, bowling Kerry Jeremy for aduck.Pollock tore the ball from Telemachus as he went in search of the finalwicket, which he duly claimed, Corey Collymore adjudged leg-before for one.Earlier South Africa struggled their way to 190 all out as the WestIndies bowlers backed their captain’s decision to field first with a superbcollective effort on a pitch that offered generous assistance throughout,paceman Cameron Cuffy playing a star role.Opening the bowling, Cuffy worked through his ten overs in one spell,claiming the wickets of both openers and finishing with 2-26 as South Africastruggled to get out of the blocks in their customary explosive manner.Neil McKenzie, back in the South African side for the first time sincethe first game of the series in Jamaica, top-scored with 73 from 117 ballsand held the innings together after Cuffy bowled Herschelle Gibbs for oneand trapped Boeta Dippenaar leg-before for seven. He was fifth out as hetried to accelerate, brilliantly caught by ‘keeper Jacobs (who earlierdropped him on 23) off Colleymore. It was his second one-day half-centuryand he hit eight fours.After the first two wickets fell with just 31 on the board, McKenzieshared a crucial stand of 92 for the third wicket with Kemp. The youngall-rounder hit three fours and a six before he was harshly adjudgedleg-before to Hooper for 46, television replays clearly indicating thebatsman was struck outside the line of off-stump.Jacques Kallis (3) was bowled by a Hooper delivery which turned sharply and keptlow as it squeezed between bat and pad, McKenzie followed soon afterwardsand then Pollock was smartly gathered by Samuels off his own bowlingfor five to leave South Africa 157-6.Although Jonty Rhodes and Mark Boucher steadied things briefly with astand of 23 for the seventh wicket, Boucher (3) was bowled by Jeremy, theball takng the inside-edge before clipping leg stump. Telemachus (2) playedon to Jeremy in similar fashion and Adams (6) was bowled having a wild oldslog at Samuels.Rhodes (25) was last out in the final over, carving Colleymore straightto Lara at backward point.