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Approved-By:  "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@CENTRAL.SUN.COM>
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:46:04 MST
Reply-To:     "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
From:         "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
Subject:      India vs South Africa (4T1D - Cape Town, South Africa, Jan 2)

   Jonty Rhodes and debutant Daryll Cullinan defied the Indian attack
to help South Africa recover from a dismal start to their fourth and
final Test on Saturday.  Coming together with South Africa down to
78-4 after electing to bat first, the pair added 99 for the fifth
wicket to put the home team on 189 for five by stumps on the first
day.

   The 25-year-old Cullinan showed no signs of nerves as he stroked an
impressive 46 before being caught at mid-on off Venkatapathy Raju 30
minutes before stumps.  The flamboyant Rhodes remained unbeaten on 61
with seven boundaries, his second Test half-century. Keeping him
company was local hero Brian McMillan on four.  The Indians, who need
to win the match to level the series 1-1, marred an otherwise
impressive display in the field by letting both Rhodes and Cullinan
off the hook.  Cullinan was missed at silly point by Indian skipper
Mohammad Azharuddin off Raju when he was on 14.

   Rhodes saw an uppish on-drive against Kumble pass just beyond reach
of a diving Raju at mid-wicket shortly before tea.  Rhodes, then on
seven, also escaped being run out by a fumbling Kiran More when he had
moved to 35.  India, pilloried by critics back home for a dismal
performance on the African tour so far, applied early pressure on a
Newlands wicket that is already aiding turn.  Seamer Manoj Prabhakar
uprooted Wessels' centre stump in his first over, just as he had done
in the third Test in Port Elizabeth earlier this week.

   It was the third time in the series that a South African wicket had
fallen for nought, following Kapil Dev's first-ball dismissal of Jimmy
Cook in the first Test in Durban.  The early fall of of the in-form
Wessels stopped the South African batsmen in their tracks.  The first
run came off the 32nd delivery of the match and only 19 had been
scored at the end of the first hour.

   Left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju, who came on in the 10th over,
bowled five maidens on a trot before conceding his first run off the
fifth ball of his sixth over.  But it was seamer Javagal Srinath at
the other end who struck the second blow by holding a sharp return
catch to remove Hudson and make South Africa 28-2.  Peter Kirsten, 11
at lunch, added two more when he edged Kapil Dev's outswinger to
wicket-keeper Kiran More to make South Africa 57 for three.  It was
the 33-year-old Kapil's 411th test wicket which puts him just 20
behind Richard Hadlee's world record of 431.

   Hansie Cronje, century-maker in the third test in Port Elizabeth,
batted for three hours to make 33 before offering an easy bat-pad off
leg spinner Anil Kumble.  Earlier, India left out left-handed opener
Woorkeri Raman due to an eye injury to give the off-form Sanjay
Manjrekar another chance to strike form.  South Africa omitted seamers
Meyrick Pringle and Brett Schultz to go in the test with just four
specialist bowlers.

South Africa (first innings):

   A.C. Hudson c and b Srinath .............. 19
   K.C. Wessels b Prabhakar .................. 0
   W.J. Cronje c Manjrekar b Kumble ......... 33
   P.N. Kirsten c More b Kapil .............. 13
   D.J. Cullinan c Prabhakar b Raju ......... 46
   J.N. Rhodes not out ...................... 61
   B.M. McMillan not out ..................... 4
   Extras: (lb13) ........................... 13

   Total: (for five wickets) ............... 189

   Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-28, 3-57, 4-78, 5-177

   Bowling: Kapil 17-6-26-1, Prabhakar 11-3-23-1, Raju 30-9-58-1,
            Srinath 12-4-25-1, Kumble 23-6-44-1

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