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Played at
Headingley, Leeds , on 6,7,8,9,10 August 1998 (5-day match)
Result England won by 23 runs
England 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR
MA Butcher b Pollock
116 319
252
18
0
46.03
MA Atherton c Kallis b Ntini
16 76
50
2
0
32.00
N Hussain c
9 68
45
1
0
20.00
AJ Stewart c Kallis b Donald
15 50
30
3
0
50.00
MR Ramprakash c
21 88
62
2
0
33.87
GA Hick c Rhodes b Ntini
2 38
21
0
0
9.52
A Flintoff c Liebenberg b Pollock
0 2
3
0
0
0.00
DG Cork not out
24 48
33
4
0
72.72
IDK Salisbury b Ntini
0 8
4
0
0
0.00
D Gough c McMillan b Ntini
2 16
7
0
0
28.57
ARC Fraser c Cullinan b Donald
4 19
7
0
0
57.14
Extras
(b 4, lb 5, w 2, nb 10)
21
Total
(all out; 83.3 overs)
230 (2.75 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-45 (Atherton, 17.4 ov) , 2-83 (Hussain, 33.6 ov) , 3-110 (Stewart, 45.5 ov) , 4-181 (Ramprakash, 67.4 ov) , 5-196 (Butcher, 74.3 ov) , 6-196 (Flintoff, 74.6 ov) , 7-198 (Hick, 75.3 ov) , 8-200 (Salisbury, 77.1 ov) , 9-213 (Gough, 79.4 ov) , 10-230 (Fraser, 83.3 ov)
South Africa 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR
G Kirsten lbw b Fraser
6 26
24
1
0
25.00
GFJ Liebenberg c Hick b Fraser
21 61
42
2
0
50.00
JH Kallis c Ramprakash b Cork
40 177
134
7
0
29.85
DJ Cullinan c
27 54
29
4
0
93.10
WJ Cronje lbw b Fraser
57 235
163
9
0
34.96
JN Rhodes c
32 37
39
4
0
82.05
BM McMillan c Salisbury b Cork
7 35
25
1
0
28.00
SM Pollock c Salisbury b Fraser
31 84
64
1
0
48.43
MV Boucher c Atherton b Gough
6 24
16
1
0
37.50
AA Donald lbw b Fraser
0 2
2
0
0
0.00
M Ntini not out
4 10
6
1
0
66.66
Extras
(lb 20, nb 1)
21
Total
(all out; 90.3 overs)
252 (2.78 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-17 (Kirsten, 7.1 ov) , 2-36 (Liebenberg, 15.4 ov) , 3-83 (Cullinan, 28.2 ov) , 4-120 (Kallis, 49.1 ov) , 5-163 (Rhodes, 58.6 ov) , 6-184 (McMillan, 67.5 ov) , 7-237 (Cronje, 85.2 ov) , 8-242 (Pollock, 87.4 ov) , 9-242 (Donald, 87.6 ov) , 10-252 (Boucher, 90.3 ov)
England 2nd innings R M B 4s 6s SR
MA Butcher c McMillan b Pollock
37 147
108
5
0
34.25
MA Atherton lbw b Donald
1 5
4
0
0
25.00
N Hussain c Cronje b Pollock
94 421
341
14
0
27.56
AJ Stewart c
35 103
68
7
0
51.47
MR Ramprakash lbw b Pollock
25 95
75
4
0
33.33
IDK Salisbury c
4 21
11
1
0
36.36
GA Hick c Kirsten b Donald
1 9
7
0
0
14.28
A Flintoff c
0 4
5
0
0
0.00
DG Cork c
10 57
36
2
0
27.77
D Gough c Cullinan b Donald
5 23
15
1
0
33.33
ARC Fraser not out
1 8
4
0
0
25.00
Extras
(b 14, lb 1, w 2, nb 10)
27
Total
(all out; 110.2 overs)
240 (2.17 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-2 (Atherton, 1.1 ov) , 2-81 (Butcher, 36.5 ov) , 3-143 (Stewart, 62.5 ov) , 4-200 (Ramprakash, 85.6 ov) , 5-206 (Salisbury, 91.2 ov) , 6-207 (Hick, 94.1 ov) , 7-207 (Flintoff, 94.6 ov) , 8-229 (Hussain, 105.3 ov) , 9-235 (Cork, 108.3 ov) , 10-240 (Gough, 110.2 ov)
South Africa 2nd innings (target: 219 runs)R M B 4s 6s SR
G Kirsten c Atherton b Gough
3 32
24
0
0
12.50
GFJ Liebenberg lbw b Gough
6 17
15
1
0
40.00
JH Kallis lbw b Fraser
3 18
15
0
0
20.00
DJ Cullinan lbw b Gough
0 29
13
0
0
0.00
WJ Cronje c
0 9
6
0
0
0.00
JN Rhodes c Flintoff b Gough
85 211
147
10
1
57.82
BM McMillan c
54 149
120
8
0
45.00
SM Pollock not out
28 106
74
1
0
37.83
MV Boucher lbw b Gough
4 21
8
0
0
50.00
AA Donald c
4 29
23
0
0
17.39
M Ntini lbw b Gough
0 8
8
0
0
0.00
Extras
(lb 6, nb 2)
8
Total
(all out; 75 overs)
195 (2.60 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-9 (Liebenberg, 4.4 ov) , 2-12 (Kirsten, 8.4 ov) , 3-12 (Kallis, 9.2 ov) , 4-12 (Cronje, 11.2 ov) , 5-27 (Cullinan, 14.3 ov) , 6-144 (McMillan, 50.6 ov) , 7-167 (Rhodes, 60.5 ov) , 8-175 (Boucher, 66.1 ov) , 9-194 (Donald, 73.1 ov) , 10-195 (Ntini, 74.6 ov)
Toss England, who chose to bat firstSeries England won the 5-match series 2-1
Player of the match
MA Butcher (England)Players of the series
MA Atherton (England) and AA Donald (South Africa)
Umpires
Javed Akhtar (Pakistan) and P Willey TV umpire
KE Palmer Match referee
AM Ebrahim (Zimbabwe)
Close of play 6 Aug day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 9/0 (G Kirsten 4* , GFJ Liebenberg 5* , 4 ov )7 Aug day 2 - England 2nd innings 2/0 (MA Butcher 0* , MA Atherton 1* , 1 ov )8 Aug day 3 - England 2nd innings 206/4 (N Hussain 83* , IDK Salisbury 4* , 91 ov )9 Aug day 4 - South Africa 2nd innings 185/8 (SM Pollock 24* , AA Donald 2* , 68 ov )10 Aug day 5 - South Africa 2nd innings 195 (75 ov ) - end of match
Match notes
Day 1:
Hansie Cronje breaks John Waite's test appearance record for South Africa.
Alan Donald sets a new South African record for most wickets in a series in England.
Mark Butcher scores his maiden test hundred.
Day 2:
England dropped 4 catches, 3 in 23 balls. Cronje and Rhodes were each dropped twice, the culprits being Ramprakash, Hussain, Hick and Stewart.
Fraser's 3rd successive five wicket innings.
Day 4:
Darren Gough gets his 100th test wicket
Man of the Match adjudicator was Paul Allott Date-stamped : 10 Aug1998 - 18:26
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