India Started poorly Against South Africa in 1999 C World Cup

In the 2nd match of the ICC cricket world cup, India was against South Africa, both teams were par at that time and it was looking like a cracker jack of a game. This game was played on County Ground, Brighton, England on 15th May, 1999.

India won the toss and opts to bat and that means South Africa will bowl first and South Africa will chase whatever India will post.

This is how the Indian team and 11 was looking like: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Ajit Agarkar, Venkatesh Prasad, Mohammad Azharuddin (c), Robin Singh, Javagal Srinath, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia (wk)

And South African team and 11 was looking like: Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky Boje, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock, Hansie Cronje (c), Allan Donald, Jonty Rhodes, Daryll Cullinan, Gary Kirsten, Lance Klusener

India started very handsomely and was at no loss of wickets till the 15 over’s of the game and Sachin tebdulkar And Saurav Gangluy were batting very well. But just 15 the 15 over’s India lost the wicket of S Tendulkar on the team score of only 67 runs in 15.3 over’s. Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid batted very well and put a total of 253 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and Rdravid contributed 54 runs in 75 balls with 5 4’s at the strike rate of 72 and Saurav Ganguly top scored with 92 runs in 142 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six at strike rate of 68 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa needs to get 254 runs in allotted 50 over’s.

S A started badly and lost both their openers at the team score of 22 runs in 6.5 over’s But they recovered well and with the major contribution of J Kallis who made 96 runs in 128 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 75 runs in 100 balls and won this game in 47.2 over’s and won the game by 4 wickets and with 16 balls still remaining.

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And J kallis was declared the Man of the match.