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RESULT • 3rd ODI • Potchefstroom

SA-W

233/8

ENG-W

(19/23 ov, T:152) 153/4

ENG Women won by 6 wickets (with 24 balls remaining) (DLS method)

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RESULT • 1st T20I • Harare

AFG

144/6

ZIM

(20 ov, T:145) 145/6

Zimbabwe won by 4 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)

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New Zealand vs South Africa, 1st Test at Auckland,, Feb 27 1999 - Full Scorecard

RESULT

1st Test, Auckland, February 27 - March 03, 1999, South Africa tour of New Zealand

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South Africa

621/5d

New Zealand

(fo) 352 & 244/3

Match drawn

Player Of The Match

Daryll Cullinan

, SA

275*

South Africa 1st Innings

New Zealand 1st Innings

New Zealand 2nd Innings (Following on)

Match Flow

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South Africa 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Gary Kirsten	c Astle b Allott	128	282	361	15	0	45.39
Herschelle Gibbs	b Vettori	34	64	97	4	0	53.12
Jacques Kallis	lbw b Doull	7	29	35	1	0	24.13
Daryll Cullinan	not out	275	490	658	27	2	56.12
Hansie Cronje (c)	c Allott b Harris	30	83	108	4	0	36.14
Jonty Rhodes	c Twose b Harris	63	135	165	9	0	46.66
Shaun Pollock	not out	69	120	155	9	1	57.50
Extras	(b 6, lb 7, nb 2)	15
Total	200.1 Ov (RR: 3.10)	621/5d
Did not bat: Lance Klusener, Mark Boucher †, Allan Donald, Paul Adams
Fall of wickets: 1-76 (Herschelle Gibbs, 23.4 ov), 2-97 (Jacques Kallis, 32.4 ov), 3-280 (Gary Kirsten, 91.6 ov), 4-354 (Hansie Cronje, 119.6 ov), 5-495 (Jonty Rhodes, 165.4 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	NB
Simon Doull	33	7	90	1	2.72	-	-	-	0
Geoff Allott	38	5	153	1	4.02	-	-	-	1
Dion Nash	28	2	97	0	3.46	-	-	-	1
Daniel Vettori	42	8	120	1	2.85	-	-	-	0
Chris Harris	45	10	94	2	2.08	-	-	-	0
Craig McMillan	5.1	0	24	0	4.64	-	-	-	0
Nathan Astle	9	1	30	0	3.33	-	-	-	0

New Zealand 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Roger Twose	c †Boucher b Donald	31	83	120	4	1	37.34
Matt Horne	b Adams	93	225	314	13	0	41.33
Nathan Astle	c †Boucher b Donald	41	82	107	6	2	50.00
Craig McMillan	c †Boucher b Cronje	25	69	80	4	0	36.23
Chris Harris	not out	68	235	348	6	0	28.93
Adam Parore †	b Pollock	9	54	68	1	0	16.66
Matthew Bell	b Klusener	6	43	53	1	0	13.95
Dion Nash (c)	c †Boucher b Klusener	1	2	7	0	0	50.00
Daniel Vettori	c Cronje b Adams	32	74	70	4	0	43.24
Simon Doull	c Gibbs b Adams	17	26	39	2	1	65.38
Geoff Allott	c Pollock b Kallis	0	77	101	0	0	0.00
Extras	(lb 21, nb 6, w 2)	29
Total	160.4 Ov (RR: 2.19)	352
Fall of wickets: 1-80 (Roger Twose, 28.3 ov), 2-170 (Nathan Astle, 56.3 ov), 3-210 (Craig McMillan, 74.6 ov), 4-210 (Matt Horne, 75.5 ov), 5-224 (Adam Parore, 91.5 ov), 6-242 (Matthew Bell, 103.6 ov), 7-251 (Dion Nash, 105.1 ov), 8-294 (Daniel Vettori, 123.2 ov), 9-320 (Simon Doull, 133.2 ov), 10-352 (Geoff Allott, 160.4 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Allan Donald	27	16	40	2	1.48	-	-	-	0	0
Shaun Pollock	28	11	51	1	1.82	-	-	-	0	3
Lance Klusener	27	8	60	2	2.22	-	-	-	1	0
Paul Adams	46	18	103	3	2.23	-	-	-	1	0
Jacques Kallis	21.4	10	44	1	2.03	-	-	-	0	3
Daryll Cullinan	2	1	8	0	4.00	-	-	-	0	0
Hansie Cronje	9	2	25	1	2.77	-	-	-	0	0

New Zealand 2nd Innings (Following on)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Matt Horne	b Adams	60	121	168	11	0	49.58
Matthew Bell	c Donald b Pollock	6	25	35	1	0	24.00
Roger Twose	c Cullinan b Klusener	65	185	239	6	4	35.13
Nathan Astle	not out	69	130	172	12	1	53.07
Craig McMillan	not out	22	48	65	4	0	45.83
Extras	(b 13, lb 2, nb 5, w 2)	22
Total	84 Ov (RR: 2.90)	244/3
Did not bat: Chris Harris, Adam Parore †, Dion Nash (c), Daniel Vettori, Simon Doull, Geoff Allott
Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Matthew Bell, 7.6 ov), 2-104 (Matt Horne, 39.5 ov), 3-193 (Roger Twose, 67.1 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Jacques Kallis	13	0	61	0	4.69	-	-	-	2	0
Shaun Pollock	13	5	21	1	1.61	-	-	-	0	5
Allan Donald	9	2	20	0	2.22	-	-	-	0	0
Lance Klusener	13	6	26	1	2.00	-	-	-	0	0
Paul Adams	30	11	96	1	3.20	-	-	-	0	0
Hansie Cronje	6	4	5	0	0.83	-	-	-	0	0

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Close of Play

Sat, 27 Feb - day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 245/2 (Gary Kirsten 109*, Daryll Cullinan 85*, 80 ov)

Sun, 28 Feb - day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 562/5 (Daryll Cullinan 246*, Shaun Pollock 39*, 186 ov)

Mon, 01 Mar - day 3 - New Zealand 1st innings 205/2 (Matt Horne 92*, Craig McMillan 21*, 74 ov)

Tue, 02 Mar - day 4 - New Zealand 2nd innings 4/0 (Matt Horne 4*, Matthew Bell 0*, 1 ov)

Wed, 03 Mar - day 5 - New Zealand 2nd innings 244/3 (84 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 1

Lunch: South Africa 71/0 (Kirsten 35*, Gibbs 33*; 21.1 overs)
Tea: South Africa 135/2 (Kirsten 62*, Cullinan 24*; 45 overs)
South Africa 1st innings: 50 off 95 balls, 69 minutes; 100 off 223 balls, 144 minutes; 150 off 294 balls, 191 minutes. 200 off 391 balls, 247 minutes.
G Kirsten: 50 off 108 balls, 138 minutes, 4x4. 100 off 214 balls, 266 minutes, 10x4, 9th Test 100. He equals the most number of individual Test centuries scored for South Africa with AD Nourse.
DJ Cullinan: 50 off 79 balls, 94 minutes, 8x4.
G Kirsten and HH Gibbs 1st wicket partnership: 50 off 95 balls, 69 minutes.
G Kirsten and DJ Cullinan 3rd wicket partnership: 50 off 94 balls, 54 minutes, 100 off 190 balls, 112 minutes.
Rain delayed play at 12:00pm. Lunch taken 30 minutes early.
Rain delayed play at 1:27pm for 56 minutes.
Rain delayed play at 2:58pm for 6 minutes. Tea delayed until 3:40 due to rain. Stumps extended to 6:30pm.
Rain delayed play at 5:55pm for 14 minutes.

Day 2

Lunch: South Africa 352/3 (Cullinan 142*, Cronje 30*; 117 overs)
Tea: South Africa 416/4 (Cullinan 171*, Rhodes 35*; 152 overs)
South Africa 1st innings: 250 off 492 balls, 316 minutes; 300 off 598 balls, 395 minutes; 350 off 694 balls, 455 minutes; 400 off 827 balls, 534 minutes; 450 off 954 balls, 605 minutes; 500 off 999 balls, 640 minutes; 550 off 1094 balls, 711 minutes.
DJ Cullinan: 100 off 176 balls, 217 minutes, 13x4, 1x6, 7th Test 100. 150 off 271 balls, 358 minutes, 18x4, 1x6; 200 off 384 balls, 474 minutes, 22x4, 1x6.
JN Rhodes: 50 off 121 balls, 74 minutes, 7x4, 12th Test 50.
G Kirsten and DJ Cullinan 3rd wicket partnership: 150 off 289 balls, 177 minutes. 183 off 356 balls, 227 minutes. It is a record 3rd wicket partnership in Tests for South Africa against New Zealand (previous best: 112 between DJ McGlew and RA McLean at Johannesburg in 1961-62).
DJ Cullinan and WJ Cronje 4th wicket partnership: 50 off 89 balls, 62 minutes.
DJ Cullinan and JN Rhodes 5th wicket partnership: 50 off 128 balls, 74 minutes; 100 off 238 balls, 137 minutes. 141 is a record 5th wicket partnership in Tests for South Africa against New Zealand (previous best: 130 between WR Endean and JE Cheetham at Auckland in 1952-53).
DJ Cullinan and SM Pollock 6th wicket partnership: 50 off 101 balls, 72 minutes.
Due to 51 minutes play lost on day one, play began 30 minutes early at 10:00am and was extended 30 minutes to 6:00pm.
Attendance: 4006.

Day 3

Lunch: New Zealand 40/0 (Twose 14*, Horne 23*; 12 overs)
Tea: New Zealand 106/1 (Horne 60*, Astle 5*; 44 overs)
South Africa 1st innings: 600 off 1165 balls, 766 minutes. 621/5 dec is the highest innings total in Tests for South Africa against New Zealand (previous best: 524/8 dec at Wellington in 1952-53). It is their 2nd highest ever innings total in Tests (best: 622/9 dec v Australia at Durban in 1969-70). It is the highest innings total in Tests at Eden Park, Auckland (previous best: 616/5 dec by Pakistan v New Zealand in 1988-89). It is the 2nd highest innings total in Tests against New Zealand (best: 660/5 dec by West Indies at Wellington in 1994-95). It is the 3rd highest Test, and 11th highest first-class innings total scored in New Zealand.
DJ Cullinan: 250 off 449 balls, 611 minutes, 26x4, 2x6. 275* off 491 balls, 659 minutes, 27x4, 2x6. It is his best Test innings (previous best: 168 v West Indies at Cape Town in 1998-99). It is the best individual innings in Tests for South Africa against New Zealand (previous best: 255* by DJ McGlew at Wellington in 1952-53). It is the 10th double century in Tests scored by a South African, and he is the 8th South African to do so. It is the best individual innings in Tests for South Africa (previous best: 274 by RG Pollock v Australia at Durban in 1969-70). It is the longest individual innings by a South African in Tests (in terms of minutes), and the longest individual first-class innings at Eden Park, Auckland. It is the 5th Test double century at the ground, and 2nd highest individual Test innings there (best: 336* by WR Hammond for England v New Zealand in 1932-33) and 3rd highest individual first-class innings there (best: Hammond above, 284 by WM Woodfull for Australia v New Zealand in 1927-28 [prior to New Zealand gaining Test status], also: 275 by B Sutcliffe for Otago v Auckland in 1950-51).
SM Pollock: 50 off 94 balls, 113 minutes, 6x4, 1x6, 6th Test 50.
DJ Cullinan and SM Pollock 6th wicket partnership: 100 off 163 balls, 125 minutes. 126* is a record 6th wicket partnership in Tests for South Africa against New Zealand (previous best: 83 between KC Bland and ARA Lindsay at Auckland in 1963-64).
New Zealand 1st innings: 50 off 107 balls, 74 minutes; 100 off 261 balls, 173 minutes; 150 off 315 balls, 205 minutes; 200 off 431 balls, 295 minutes.
MJ Horne: 50 off 117 balls, 151 minutes, 7x4, 4th Test 50.
RG Twose and MJ Horne 1st wicket partnership: 50 off 107 balls, 74 minutes.
MJ Horne and NJ Astle 2nd wicket partnership: 50 off 106 balls, 62 minutes. 90 is a record 2nd wicket partnership in Tests for New Zealand against South Africa (previous best: 72 between DJ Murray and SP Fleming at Johannesburg in 1994-95).
To make up for lost time due to rain on day one, play started 6 minutes early at 10:24am.

Match Details

Eden Park, Auckland
Toss	New Zealand, elected to field first
Series	South Africa tour of New Zealand
Season	1998/99
Player Of The Match	Daryll Cullinan
Series result	3-match series level 0-0
Match number	Test no. 1446
Match days	day (5-day match)
Umpires	Daryl Harper Doug Cowie
TV Umpire	Christopher King
Match Referee	Alan Smith

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New Zealand Innings

Player Name		R	B
MJ Horne	bowled	60	121
MD Bell	caught	6	25
RG Twose	caught	65	185
NJ Astle	not out	69	130
CD McMillan	not out	22	48
Extras	(b 13, lb 2, nb 5, w 2)
Total	244(3 wkts; 84 ovs)

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
JH Kallis	13	0	61	0	4.69
SM Pollock	13	5	21	1	1.61 (5 nb)
AA Donald	9	2	20	0	2.22
L Klusener	13	6	26	1	2
PR Adams	30	11	96	1	3.2
WJ Cronje	6	4	5	0	0.83

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	15	Matt Horne	Matthew Bell
2nd	89	Roger Twose	Matt Horne
3rd	89	Roger Twose	Nathan Astle
4th	51	Nathan Astle	Craig McMillan

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