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South Africa Edge Thrilling Third One-Dayer 14 Thursday 4th November, 2010 South Africa’s Hashim from his allotted overs, but they will be even more indebted to Amla, Amla celebrates after com- who was the only Proteas batsman Holder Inter loses at Spurs pleting a century, during able to negotiate a difficult, slow their third one day interna- surface in Dubai. tional cricket match against The right-handed opener bat- in Champions League Pakistan, in Dubai, UAE, ted from start to finish to score 119 off 126 balls and register the BY ROB HARRIS contesting their first Champions Tuesday Nov. 2, 2010. (AP fifth one-day century of what has LONDON (AP) - Inter Milan League campaign - held on to move Photo/Randi Sokoloff) been an extremely productive crashed to the first loss of its ahead of the Italian champions on year for the 27-year-old. Champions League defence at goal difference. JP Duminy (26), AB De Tottenham on Tuesday, Villiers (19), Albie Morkel (19) with the London club and Johan Botha (15) were the going top of Group A only other South African bats- men to make double figures, while after a convincing 3-1 vic- Akhtar - with 3-39 - was the pick of a tory. strong Pakistan bowling display, which While Rafael van der also saw Afridi and Hafeez collect two Vaart, Peter Crouch and wickets apiece. (BBC) Roman Pavlyuchenko provided the Spurs goals, Scoreboard it was Gareth Bale’s elec- trifying pace that was South Africa instrumental to creating H. Amla not out 119 them and helping the J. Kallis b Akhtar 0 home side overwhelm the C. Ingram c &b Akhtar 4 holders. AB de Villiers st Haider b Afridi 19 “(Bale) is now one of JP Duminy c Haider b Hafeez 26 our best players, every D. Miller b Hafeez 6 week he’s strong and A. Morkel c Hafeez b Afridi 19 everyone’s scared of J. Botha b Akhtar 15 him,” Van der Vaart said. M. Morkel c Alam b Riaz 2 “Tonight he’s up against J. Theron run out (Ajmal/Haider) 5 Maicon, one of the best South Africa edge defenders in the world, Extras: (nb 1, w 11, b 0, lb 1) 13 Total: (9 wkts, 50.0 overs) 228 and he’s killed him.” Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-15, 3-57, 4-116, 5- Inter had threatened a late comeback when Tottenham’s Gareth Bale moves the ball away from 126, 6-163, 7-201, 8-211, 9-228. Samuel Eto’o netted his Inter Milan during their Champions League group A Bowling: Akhtar 10-1-39-3 (1nb, 1w), seventh goal in four soccer match at Tottenham’s White Hart Lane thrilling third one-dayer Razzaq 5-1-19-0, Riaz 10-1-46-1 (2w), European matches in the Ajmal 6-0-36-0, Afridi 10-0-53-2 (3w), Stadium in London, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. 80th minute, but Spurs - (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi) outh Africa narrowly avoided a sec- Theron, and it was a feat that proved Hafeez 9-0-34-2 (1w). ond successive last-over defeat by beyond him. Pakistan SPakistan as they won a thrilling It was a finale few would have envis- I. Farhat run out (Theron/ de Villiers) 47 third one-day international in Dubai. aged halfway through the Pakistan M. Hafeez c Botha b Tsotsobe 4 Chasing a South African total of 228 - response, as some economical South Y. Khan c Botha b Morkel 0 built largely around Hashim Amla’s African bowling - most notably superb A. Shafiq run out (Miller) 43 S. Africa and SL have unbeaten 119 - Pakistan were initially sti- opening spells from Morne Morkel and S. Afridi c de Villiers b Morkel 7 fled but fought back superbly. Lonwabo Tsotsobe - prevented the innings Fawad Alam’s 59 looked to have swung gaining any momentum. F. Alam not out 59 chance to move ahead of the game in their favour later on. At the end of the 10th over, Pakistan A. Razzaq c de Villiers b Kallis 12 But Saeed Ajmal was bowled by the had lost both opener Mohammad Hafeez Z. Haider c Amla b M. Morkel 11 penultimate ball and Shoaib Akhtar could and his replacement Younis Khan and the W. Riaz c de Villiers b M. Morkel 21 second-ranked India not hit the four needed to win. total stood at just 23. S. Ajmal b Theron 2 Both South Africa and Sri Lanka if Australia wins the series 2-1. Two days ago in Abu Dhabi, a sensa- Hafeez’s opening partner Farhat (47) S. Akhtar not out 1 tional 109 in 72 balls from Abdul Razzaq and Asad Shafiq (43) were able to occupy have the chance to go ahead of sec- The challenge for South Africa is Extras: (nb 1, w 5, b 0, lb 13) 19 steered Pakistan to an unlikely one-wick- the crease, but provided little impetus to ond-ranked India in the Reliance tougher, particularly after a rejuve- Total: (9 wkts, 50.0 overs) 226 et victory in the second one-day interna- the innings and when the former was run Mobile ICC ODI Championship when nated Pakistan’s sensational one- Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-13, 3-98, 4-108, tional. out, Pakistan were 130 runs shy of the the Proteas face Pakistan in the wicket victory in the second ODI in It appeared as though the less likely South African total with 22 overs remain- 5-121, 6-148, 7-176, 8-209, 9-225. remaining two ODIs in Dubai and Sri Abu Dhabi on Sunday. source of Alam was about to do the same ing. Bowling: M. Morkel 10-1-47-4 (1w), Lanka goes head to head with top- The Proteas now need to win the for his side at the Dubai International The loss of one of their potential big- Tsotsobe 10-1-28-1 (2w), Kallis 7-0-30-1 ranked Australia this week. remaining three matches which will Cricket Stadium. hitting, lower-order match-winners, (1w), Theron 8-0-49-1 (1nb), Botha 10-0- The 25-year-old may have started slow- Shahid Afridi - caught behind off the Sri Lanka and South Africa are lift them to 119 ratings points. 42-0, Duminy 5-0-17-0 (1w). ly, but he accelerated in the third and bowling of Morkel - dealt a further signif- currently locked on 115 ratings points In sharp contrast, South Africa’s Toss: Pakistan final power play to put his side on the icant blow to Pakistan’s hopes. – two behind India. But all this can failure to win the series or the Series: South Africa lead the five-match brink of a victory that would put them 2-1 When Razzaq also fell - caught behind change depending how their respec- remaining matches of the series will ahead in the five-game series. off Jacques Kallis - with the run rate edg- series 2-1. tive series pan out. have dire consequences on its stand- However, needing 12 runs from the ing towards nine an over, the writing Player of the match: H. Amla (SA) If Sri Lanka wins its three-match ing on the ODI table. final over, Alam was prevented from hit- appeared to be on the wall, until the Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak), Rod Tucker ODI series against Australia, it is If Pakistan wins the series by 3-2, ting boundaries. efforts of Alam, ably assisted by Wahab (Aus) When he lost partner Ajmal it left last Riaz (21 off 11 balls). guaranteed second place in the cham- South Africa will drop below England TV Umpire: Zameer Haider (Pak) man Akhtar with the difficult task of hit- South Africa will be grateful to the pionship table while South Africa can on 111 ratings points while Graeme Match Referee: Andy Pycroft (Zim) ting a boundary off the bowling of Rusty bowling of Morkel, who finished with 4-47 only move ahead of India if it wins Smith’s side will fall as low as sixth if all the remaining three ODIs. Shahid Afridi’s men win all the three A 3-0 win for Sri Lanka will put it matches which will be played at on 121 ratings points – four behind Dubai International Stadium in Australia, which will drop to 125 rat- Dubai Sports City. ings points – while a 2-1 success for Pakistan’s success in the remain- Raif Jansz: An icon in badminton Kumar Sangakkara’s side will take it ing three ODIs will mean both sides to 118 ratings points. will be equalled on 107 ratings points (Former badminton Pam, a student of Methodist Raif won his first open title at pionships). In 1954 the On the other side of the coin, Sri but the home sides will be placed player Raif Jansz College, Kollupitiya. They the Cosmopolitan Sports Club Thomas Cup team comprised Lanka will drop behind England on higher when the ratings are calculat- were married in the 1960s. His open Championship held at of Mr. P. Sivalingam (captain), 112 ratings points if Ricky Ponting’s ed beyond the decimal point. passed away on Oct. 16, side makes a clean sweep of the 2010 in Melbourne, badminton achievements were Fernando Road, Wellawatta in Raif Jansz, Sam Schoorman, many but to state a few, he had 1952. He defeated A. R. L. R. P. Nadarajah, V. Narendran series while both the sides will retain (ICC Media Release) Australia.) the distinction of playing Wijesekara, the winner in and N. Sugunadeva. Raif was their pre-series rankings and ratings I have had the privilege of against the Malaysian nation- 1951.
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