India Beat South Africa in Great 4th ODI Match in 2000, Bilateral Series.

South Africa was scheduled to play 5 One Day International Matches in India in 2000.

It was a very interesting series as both these teams were playing some great cricket on that time. The 4th match of 5 One day international Series was played on Reliance Stadium, Vadodara on 17th March, 2000.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first and this means India will bowl first and will chase target set by South Africa later in the game. This game is so crucial as if India won this game it will won the series today and if South Africa won today then next game will be the decider of the series.

This is how South African team and 11 was looking like in this 4th One day International Match: Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky B, H Gibbs, Jacques K, Shaun Pollock, H Cronje (c), Gary Kirsten, Lance K, N Hayward, Derek Crookes, Henry Williams

And Indian team and 11 was looking like this in this 4th One day international match: Sachin T, Rahul D, Sourav G (c), Anil Kumble, Ajit A, Sunil Joshi, Mohammad Azharuddin, Robin Singh, Ajay Jadeja, T Kumaran, S Dighe (wk).

South Africa started very well and were able to score 282 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of only 5 wickets with the contributions of Jacques K who made 81 runs in 106 balls with 4 4’s and 2 sixes and Garry K who made 72 runs in 92 balls with 6 4’s and strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 283 runs in 50 over’s to win this game and series as well.

India started very well and was able to chase this target in 49.5 over’s with the contributions of Sachin T who top scored with 122 runs in 138 balls with 12 4’s and strike rate of 88 runs in 100 balls and Saurav G who made 87 runs in 64 balls with 12 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 104 runs in 100 balls.

Sachin T was the Man of the match for his Great Century.

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