BENSON & HEDGES
CRICKET WORLD CUP 1992
SOUTH AFRICA vs WEST INDIES
17th Match
Lancaster Park, Christchurch (New Zealand)
5 - March, 1992
SOUTH AFRICA - 200/8 (50 overs)
Peter Kirsten 56 (91)
Malcolm Marshall 2/26 (10 overs)
WEST INDIES - 136 (38.4 overs)
Gus Logie 61 (69)
Meyrick Pringle 4/11 (8 overs)
South Africa won by 64 runs
PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Meyrick Pringle (SA)
March 5, 1992. West Indies and South Africa locked horns for the first time in international cricket in a World Cup.
West Indies went in with four fast bowlers, and Richie Richardson had no doubt in putting the South Africans in on a hard, green surface. Bowling with immaculate precision and extracting steep bounce from the surface, an ageing Malcolm Marshall and a young Curtly Ambrose stifled the hapless South Africans.
Kepler Wessels went first, perhaps out of frustration: he tried to whip Marshall to the leg, but the ball hurried on to him, and looped to Desmond Haynes at point. The stranglehold continued, and Andrew Hudson and Peter Kirsten crawled to 29 for 1 after 12 overs.
Brian Lara caught Hudson brilliantly at point off Anderson Cummins, while Mark Rushmere was caught in two minds and was stumped off Carl Hooper. South Africa fought back with the dangerous Adrian Kuiper lofted one over the square-leg fence and Kirsten, batting with a runner, brought up his fifty, but Ambrose brought the progress to a halt, bowling Kuiper with a low full-toss.
Then Marshall produced a peach that took off from a length, and little David Williams flew to pouch one to send Kirsten back for 56, and at 127 for 5 in the 36th over the South African innings seemed to be headed nowhere. Jonty Rhodes, Brian McMillan, and Dave Richardson played cameos, taking South Africa to 200 for 8.
Lara opened up with two gorgeous shots — a cover-drive and a square-cut, both of them ran to the fence. Then he tried one square-cut too many, and unfortunately picked out Rhodes at point; Richardson was LBW to one that jagged in; and both Hooper and Keith Arthurton were caught in the slips. Pringle had hit West Indies hard, taking out four key men in 11 balls. The score read 19 for 4 when Gus Logie walked out.
Desmond Haynes had watched the carnage at the other. He knew time was still on their side, and decided to drop anchor, letting Logie take charge. Logie launched a furious counterattack, helping West Indies reach fifty when they received another major blow: Haynes, who had already been hit on the forefinger and was batting with a splint, was hit again by Richard Snell and had to retire hurt.
Logie, refusing to give up, pulled Kuiper for six and four. Marshall hit a four, but Snell had his revenge, having Marshall caught at point and Williams caught-behind. Haynes, about to leave for the hospital to get an X-ray done, walked out again at this stage: the score read 70 for 6.
The diminutive Logie hit four fours in a single over from Kuiper. He raced to his fifty from 56 balls, and had started to look ominous, but Kuiper had the last laugh with a double-blow: he had Haynes caught-behind; when Logie went for a big one the same over, he was caught by Pringle for a 69-ball 61 (42 of which came in boundaries).
Ambrose hit two boundaries, but the West Indies chase had run out steam. Donald came back to clean up things, and West Indies, bowled out for 136 in 38.4 overs, slumped to a 64-run defeat. Pringle, with excellent figures of 8-4-11-4, was named Man of the Match.
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