South Africa Enters into Finals of tri Series by beating India, 2000

India, South Africa and Pakistan were scheduled to play 7 One Day International Tri series Matches in UAE in 2000.

It was a very interesting series as these teams were playing some great cricket on that time. The 5thmatch of 7 One day international Tri Series was played on Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 27th March, 2000. Between South Africa and India

India won the toss and opts to bat first and this means South Africa will bowl first and will chase target set by India later in the game.

This is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 5th One day International Match: Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky Boje, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini, Shaun Pollock, Neil McKenzie, Hansie Cronje (c), Gary Kirsten, Lance Klusener, Steve Elworthy

And Indian team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th One day international match: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly (c), Anil Kumble, Ajit Agarkar, Sunil Joshi, Mohammad Azharuddin, Robin Singh, Javagal Srinath, Ajay Jadeja, Saba Karim (wk)

India started poorly and were 4 wickets down on 93 runs in 28 over’s in the form of Sachin T, Saurav G, M Azar and Ajay J. India kept losing wickets at regular intervals of time and were bowled out for only 164 runs in 48.5 over’s and only Sachin T top scored with 39 runs in 68 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 57 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was required to make only 165 runs in 50 over’s to win this game and enter into finals of this tri series.

South Africa Batted Superbly well and were able to chase this target in only 43 over’s at the loss of only 4 wickets and won the game by 6 wickets in hand and still 44 balls remaining to play in the game.

N Hayward was awarded Man of the Match for his great bowling and picking 4 wickets in 10 over’s by only conceding 31 runs. And it was his spell that made impact on the game.

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