Kallis century sets up crushing South African victory over West Indies in third ODI
A tenacious and unrelenting effort in the field ensured South Africa capitalised on Jacques Kallis' seventh limited overs century as they beat the West Indies by 132 runs in the third one-day international on Saturday
Marcus Prior
05-May-2001
A tenacious and unrelenting effort in the field ensured South Africa
capitalised on Jacques Kallis' seventh limited overs century as they beat the
West Indies by 132 runs in the third one-day international on Saturday.
South Africa now
take a 2-1 lead into Sunday's fourth match, at the same venue here in
Grenada.
The West Indies were dismissed for 155 in 39 overs as they fell woefully
short of South Africa's 287-4.
From the moment captain Carl Hooper passed up the opportunity to bat
first on a flat pitch on winning the toss, it seemed the West Indies had
handed the initiative to the tourists. South African openers Gary Kirsten
and Herschelle Gibbs made a flying start, and the West Indians were already
chasing the game.
Their own batting effort could not have got off to a worse start as
Chris Gayle chipped Shaun Pollock straight to Kirsten at mid-on to be
on his way for one.
Pollock struck twice more in his opening spell, despite seeing Ricardo
Powell (15) heave a ball off middle stump and into the grandstand for an
enormous six. Powell tried the same shot shortly afterwards and ballooned
the ball to Makhaya Ntini at mid-on and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (16)
top-edged a pull and was well caught by Boeta Dippenaar inches inside the
ropes at fine-leg.
Cameos from Brian Lara (31) and Hooper (29) followed, but the West
Indies needed more than walk-on parts from their main men. Lara misjudged
one from Ntini which castled his leg stump and then Hooper was run out in
controversial circumstances.
Turning for a second, Hooper appeared at first to be well short of his
ground as Mark Boucher broke the stumps - an opinion television umpire
Evelyn Jones upheld. But replays showed the bail took an age to fall,
rattling on top of the stumps before falling to ground. The law states that
the wicket shall not be considered down if the bail is only partly or
temporarily dislodged. The debate was still running when the final wicket
was taken.
The rest was a foregone conclusion. Marlon Samuels (20) was caught plumb
in front by Lance Klusener, Ridley Jacobs (11) was run out by a brilliant
piece of fielding by Gibbs and Justin Ontong got his first wicket
in international cricket when Wavell Hinds pulled him straight to long-off.
Ontong made it two as Neil McGarrell (8) offered him a simple return catch
and Ntini provided the final blow, bowling Mervyn Dillon (4).
Earlier, Kallis picked up where he left off in Antigua, the runs coming
in a steady flow as he worked the ball around in the middle overs before
launching a more serious assault towards the end. He brought up his hundred
off 105 balls with his second six, struck mightily over long-on off Samuels, who together with Gayle played the role of the West Indies'
fifth bowler.
Kallis' first six which took him from 85 to 91 was less emphatic and was
also his only real slice of luck in an otherwise chanceless innings. Another
powerful blow looked to be sailing over the ropes before Dillon
plucked it out of the sky, but as the fielder tossed the ball infield to
Cameron Cuffy to complete the catch, television replays showed his foot
brushing the ropes and six it was.
The innings got off to a rollicking start, Herschelle Gibbs and Gary
Kirsten piling on 88 runs from the first 15 overs. Gibbs perished on 46
from 44 balls, just as the field restrictions were set be lifted, although
not before he had straight driven both Dillon and Cuffy for straight sixes.
Kirsten passed 50 for the first time since his century in the first Test
but was promptly run out by a direct hit from Gayle and Jonty Rhodes
(47 from 51 balls) then added 90 for the fourth wicket with Kallis.
Rhodes and Kallis showed all their one-day experience as they kept the
runs flowing while the boundaries dried up. Only Hooper could stem the
tide, taking 1-32 from ten exemplary overs. Rhodes somehow allowed a Hooper
delivery to squirm through his pads and dislodge a bail, but until Kallis
smashed one back to Gayle to be caught and bowled for 107 in the 50th over,
it was the only further West Indian success.