September 26 Thursday 2002
India edge out South Africa to reach final 

COLOMBO: India reached the Champions Trophy final on Wednesday with a dramatic 10-run victory over South Africa. After India posted a total of 261 for nine from their 50 overs, South Africa were left stranded on 251 for six. Opener Herschelle Gibbs was forced to retire injured with 116 to his name. 

Jacques Kallis made 97 before being out in the final over as the South Africans fell just short. India will play Australia or Sri Lanka in the final on Sunday. 

* Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly won the toss and elected to bat in the day-night game. 
* Opener Virender Sehwag hit 59 from 58 balls for his seventh one-day fifty and Yuvraj Singh top-scored with a 72-ball 62 to help India reach 261 for nine wickets in 50 overs. 
* Key batsman Sachin Tendulkar was run out for 16, taking off for a non-existent single after pushing left-arm spinner Robin Peterson to point and failing to beat a sharp throw from top South Africa fielder Jonty Rhodes from covers. 
* Fast bowler Shaun Pollock, the South African skipper, took three wickets, including two off successive balls, in the 49th over to finish with 3-43 after conceding early runs. 
* South African openers Herschelle Gibbs and Smith started cautiously before Gibbs pulls Ashish Nehra and Smith steers fellow left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan for another. 
* Smith is out for four to a stunning one-handed catch by Yuvraj Singh leaping in the air at backward point after cutting a widish delivery from Khan. South Africa 14-1 after three overs. 
* Gibbs and Kallis shared a second-wicket partnership of 178 before Gibbs is forced to retire, suffering from cramp in the humid conditions. His 116 was his ninth one-day century. 
* Jonty Rhodes and Boeta Dippenaar fall quickly, both to off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, as the South Africans slip to 213 for four. Rhodes is out to another brilliant catch by Yuvraj. 
* Mark Boucher and Kallis add 34 for the fifth wicket before Boucher is caught by Yuvraj at short fine-leg for 10. 
* Needing 15 from the final over, Kallis top-edges a catch to wicketkeeper Rahul Dravid off Sehwag for 97 and Lance Klusener is caught by Mohammad Kaif in the deep off the final ball of the innings.