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Approved-By:  "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@CENTRAL.SUN.COM>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket.scores
Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:45:11 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 (4T5D - Cape Town, South Afria, Jan 6)

   South Africa defied a last-ditch Indian challenge on Wednesday to
draw the fourth Test here and win their first home series in 22 years.
The Indians, who needed a win to square the series after losing the
third Test, fought tooth and nail on the final day to force a result,
but their bold effort went in vain.

   India's gangling seamer Javagal Srinath claimed a career-best 4-33
as the home team, starting the day with an overall lead of 132,
struggled to put bat to ball in their second innings.  The South
Africans defended stoutly till 30 minutes after tea before declaring
at 130 for six to set the Indians a victory target of 215 in a minimum
of 21 overs.  India realised the futility of chasing 10 runs per over
early in their innings and were 29 for one in 14 overs when the
umpires called off play 30 minutes before the scheduled close.

   South Africa, clearly the better allround team during the 11-week
Indian tour, took the test series 1-0 after a thumping 5-2 victory in
the one-day competition.  The Indians fly home on Friday to take on
Graham Gooch's Englishmen in a three-month tour consisting of three
tests and six one-day internationals.  The South Africans, who
returned to international cricket last year after a 21-year
apartheid-induced ban, will play a triangular one-day series at home
against World Cup champions Pakistan and the West Indies next month.
Desperate to defend their lead, the South African batsmen downed their
shutters, crawling their way to 32 runs in the two-hour first session
and 39 in the second.

   Resuming at Tuesday's score of 48 for two, the home team lost
overnight batsmen Peter Kirsten and skipper Kepler Wessels at 61 to
give India an outside chance of forcing a result.  Kirsten became the
412nd victim of Kapil Dev - celebrating his 34th birthday - when he
slashed at a short ball straight to Sanjay Manjrekar at point after
making 13.  In the next over, Wessels top-edged an attempted hook off
Javagal Srinath for the bowler to take an easy return catch.  Debutant
Daryll Cullinan and Jonty Rhodes prevented any mishap till lunch which
was taken at 80 for four, a lead of 164.

   The 23-year-old Srinath, whose previous best was 3-59 against
Australia in his first test match at Brisbane last year, had a hand in
both dismissals in the afternoon session.  He held a diving catch at
mid-on to get rid off Rhodes for 16 and then forced Cullinan (28) to
edge an outswinger to wicket-keeper Kiran More to make South Africa
107 for six an hour before tea.  Allrounder Brian McMillan and Dave
Richardson defied the fired-up Indians till 30 minutes after tea to
score 11 and 10 respectively before South African captain Kepler
Wessels closed the innings.

   India lost an early wicket in their second knock when Manoj
Prabhakar (seven) was caught behind off seamer Craig Matthews at the
score of 21.  Ajay Jadeja (20 not out) and Sanjay Manjrekar (two not
out) played out time with 10 men around the bat. The match ended with
Jonty Rhodes bowling the final over.


   South Africa first innings:
   360-9 dec (J.N. Rhodes 86, B.M. McMillan 52, A.R. Kumble 3-101)

   India first innings:
   276 (M. Prabhakar 62, S.R. Tendulkar 73, C.R. Matthews 3-32)

   South Africa (second innings):

   A.C. Hudson c More b Srinath ............... 11
   K.C. Wessels c and b Srinath ............... 34
   W.J. Cronje c More b Srinath ................ 0
   P.N. Kirsten c Manjrekar b Kapil ........... 13
   D.J. Cullinan c More b Srinath ............. 28
   J.N. Rhodes c Srinath b Kumble ............. 16
   B.M. McMillan not out ...................... 11
   D.J. Richardson not out .................... 10
   Extras: (lb4, nb3) .......................... 7
   Total: (for six wickets dec) .............. 130

   Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-28, 3-61, 4-61, 5-95, 6-107

   Bowling: Kapil 17-4-29-0, Prabhakar 10-4-19-0, Srinath 27-10-33-4,
            Kumble 23-11-20-1, Raju 20-8-25-0

   India (second innings):

   A.D. Jadeja not out ........................ 20
   M. Prabhakar c Richardson b Matthews ........ 7
   S.V. Manjrekar not out ...................... 2
   Total: (for one wicket) .................... 29

   Fall of wicket: 1-21

   Bowling: Donald 4-0-7-0, Matthews 6-1-17-1, Cronje 3-3-0-0, Rhodes 1-0-5-0

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