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South Africa earn crucial victory
ADELAIDE: South Africa recorded an emphatic 93-run
win over New Zealand in one of their (South
Africa) crucial VB Series day-night match at
Adelaide Oval on Sunday.
Hosts Australia take on Black Caps in a day-night
encounter in Melbourne on Tuesday (January 29).
Scores:
South Africa 253-5 in 50 overs (H H Gibbs 89, J N
Rhodes 55, M V Boucher 57; C L Cairns 2-69)
New Zealand 160 all out in 45.2 overs (S P Fleming
43; N Boje 4-31).
January 27, 2002 - 0755 GMT
Rhodes, Boucher take SA out of woods
From our correspondent
ADELAIDE: Herschelle Gibbs smashed a polished knock of 89 as South Africa reached 253-5 in their 188-minute batting in the 9th one-day international of VB Triangular series against New Zealand at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.
Gibbs's well-paced innings and his 65-run stand for the second wicket with Jacques Kallis (30) helped the tourists recover from 9-1 after electing to bat.
Gibbs struck seven fours in his 132-ball knock.
Jonty Rhodes was the other notable scorer from the tourists' side with a super innings of 55. He hit three fours and a six off 54 balls before being caught by New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming off Franklin. During the course of his innings he also reached the milestone of scoring more than 5000 runs (5024) in One-day Internationals.
He was also involved in an invaluable 86-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Mark Boucher who scored scored an unbeaten 57 punctuated with three fours and two sixes.
Chris Cairns chipped in with two wickets conceding 69 runs. Daniel Vettori, Franklin and last night's man of the match winner Shane Bond grabbed one wicket each by giving away 34, 39 and 47 runs respectively in the tourists' 50-over innings.
January
27, 2002 - 0345 GMT
South Africa elect to bat
ADELAIDE: After winning the toss and electing to bat, South Africa scored 74 runs for the loss of their opener Gary Kirsten and J Kallis in the 22nd over in the day-night 9th VB Series One-day International against New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday.
South Africa : HH Gibbs, G Kirsten, JH Kallis, ND McKenzie, JN Rhodes, JL Ontong, +MV Boucher, SM Pollock (captain), N Boje, M Ntini, AA Donald.
New Zealand : BB McCullum, NJ Astle, L Vincent, CD McMillan,SP Fleming (captain), CL Cairns, CZ Harris, +AC Parore, JEC Franklin, DL Vettori, SE Bond.
Umpires: DJ Harper and RL Parry
TV Umpire: SJ Davis
Match Referee: Hanumant Singh (Ind)
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