From: pieter@ford.ee.up.ac.za
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India 23 runs ahead after first innings
Date: 16 Nov 1992 00:11:36 -0600
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My modem gave up on Saterday, but back at work today, so it should go
better. 

SA will start their second innings today, after bad light stopped play
20 minutes before the end of playing time yesterday. 

India batted with determination yesterday and came out on top after
three days. The pitch played easier yesterday and started to spin.
Schultz injured himself, which left the SA bowling attack a bit thin. 
Amre's debut 100 was the highlight of the test thus far. The old guys
in SA made a bit of a mess fielding, the most blatant being when Cook
(3rd slip) did not dive for a looping edged ball from Amre (on 40
something). This would have turned the match around. But then Wessels
was given a life on 49 when he should have been run out in what the
press described as the Kumble fumble....

About the only results possible now are an India win or no-result. The
wicket won't last the 5 days and should start cracking today, so the
last two days could be full of surprises, but with the lack of
spinners in the SA attack, these surprises could be very one sided.

The test thus far:

Cook c Tendulkar b Kapil      0     Shastri lbw Pringle              14
  edge to 3rd slip                    played across, full pitched
Hudson b Kapil               14     Jadeja c McMillan b Schultz       3
  inside edge, driving                fended to 2nd slip
Wessels c Azhar b Kumble    118     Manjrekar lbw McMillan            0
  edge to slip, cutting               beaten, in-swinging yorker
Kirsten c More b Srinath     13     Tendulkar run out (Rhodes)       11
  top edge, cutting                   sent back, TV decision
Rhodes c Azhar b Kumble      41     Azhar run out (Donald)           36
  missed sweep, silly point           direct hit from mid-wicket
McMillan c Prabhakar b Shastr 3     Amre c Rhodes b McMillan        103
  hit full toss to square leg         full blooded cut to point
Richardson lbw Prabhakar     15     Kapil Dev c Richardson b McMillan 2
  in-ducker, hit on back pad          cutting a lifting ball
Henry c Tendulkar b Shastr    3     Prabhakar c McMillan b Donald    13
  playing forward, edge to slip       edge to 2nd slip, driving
Pringle lbw Kapil            33     More lbw Henry                    8
  ball straightened off seam          missed sweep, back pad
Schultz not out               0     Srinath not out                   1
Extras  (6lb, 7nb)           13     Extras(1b,9lb,3w,18nb)           31
                            254                                     277
Fall of wickets:                    Fall of wickets:
0(Cook),41(Hudson),101(Kirsten)     18(Jadeja),22(Manjrekar),38(Tendulkar),
183(Rhodes).194(McMillan),          38(Shastri),125(Azhar),127(Kapil),
206(Wessels),215(Henry),251(Pringle),146(Prabhakar),247(Amre),274(,277
253(Richarson),252(Donald)

Bowling: 
Kapil Dev 22-6-43-3                  Donald   29-6-69-1(1w,2nb)
Prabhakar 24.4-7-47-2(2nb)           Schultz  14.5-7-25-1(2w,4nb)
Srinath   18-3-69-1(5nb)             McMillan 37-18-52-3
Kumble    28-8-51-2                  Pringle  34-10-67-1(9nb)
Shastri   11-1-38-2                  Henry    19.1-3-56-2(3nb)