- Test no. 1417 | 1998 season
- Played at Edgbaston, Birmingham
- 4,5,6,7,8 June 1998 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | c Kallis b Adams | 77 | 278 | 214 | 7 | 0 | 35.98 | |
| MA Atherton | c †Boucher b Donald | 103 | 366 | 279 | 12 | 0 | 36.91 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c Cullinan b Klusener | 49 | 188 | 128 | 5 | 0 | 38.28 | |
| N Hussain | lbw b Adams | 35 | 99 | 82 | 5 | 0 | 42.68 | |
| GP Thorpe | b Pollock | 10 | 37 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| MR Ramprakash | b Donald | 49 | 192 | 151 | 4 | 0 | 32.45 | |
| MA Ealham | b Adams | 5 | 57 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 12.82 | |
| DG Cork | c Pollock b Donald | 36 | 127 | 109 | 5 | 0 | 33.02 | |
| RDB Croft | c †Boucher b Donald | 19 | 32 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 90.47 | |
| D Gough | not out | 16 | 35 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 106.66 | |
| ARC Fraser | c Cronje b Pollock | 9 | 29 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 42.85 | |
| Extras | (b 18, lb 26, w 8, nb 2) | 54 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 181 overs) | 462 | (2.55 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-179 (Butcher, 69.6 ov), 2-249 (Atherton, 93.4 ov), 3-309 (Stewart, 116.3 ov), 4-309 (Hussain, 117.1 ov), 5-329 (Thorpe, 126.5 ov), 6-356 (Ealham, 141.5 ov), 7-411 (Ramprakash, 169.1 ov), 8-430 (Cork, 173.6 ov), 9-437 (Croft, 175.1 ov), 10-462 (Fraser, 180.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 35 | 9 | 95 | 4 | 2.71 | (2w) | ||
| SM Pollock | 42 | 12 | 92 | 2 | 2.19 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| L Klusener | 31 | 7 | 74 | 1 | 2.38 | (1nb) | ||
| WJ Cronje | 11 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 2.54 | (1w) | ||
| PR Adams | 42 | 10 | 83 | 3 | 1.97 | |||
| JH Kallis | 20 | 7 | 46 | 0 | 2.30 | (1w) |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Kirsten | c Butcher b Cork | 12 | 81 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 21.81 | |
| GFJ Liebenberg | c sub (BL Spendlove) b Cork | 3 | 23 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| JH Kallis | c †Stewart b Cork | 61 | 192 | 131 | 3 | 0 | 46.56 | |
| DJ Cullinan | b Fraser | 78 | 220 | 193 | 8 | 0 | 40.41 | |
| WJ Cronje* | c sub (BL Spendlove) b Cork | 1 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| JN Rhodes | c †Stewart b Fraser | 95 | 228 | 156 | 8 | 1 | 60.89 | |
| SM Pollock | c Croft b Fraser | 16 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 88.88 | |
| MV Boucher† | c †Stewart b Fraser | 0 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| L Klusener | c †Stewart b Ealham | 57 | 119 | 90 | 11 | 0 | 63.33 | |
| AA Donald | c & b Cork | 7 | 28 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 41.17 | |
| PR Adams | not out | 6 | 24 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 35.29 | |
| Extras | (lb 5, nb 2) | 7 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 117.3 overs) | 343 | (2.91 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-6 (Liebenberg, 5.4 ov), 2-38 (Kirsten, 18.5 ov), 3-119 (Kallis, 54.5 ov), 4-125 (Cronje, 56.5 ov), 5-191 (Cullinan, 74.4 ov), 6-211 (Pollock, 78.4 ov), 7-224 (Boucher, 82.3 ov), 8-328 (Rhodes, 110.6 ov), 9-328 (Klusener, 111.5 ov), 10-343 (Donald, 117.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| ARC Fraser | 34 | 6 | 103 | 4 | 3.02 | (1nb) | ||
| DG Cork | 32.3 | 7 | 93 | 5 | 2.86 | |||
| MA Ealham | 23 | 8 | 55 | 1 | 2.39 | |||
| RDB Croft | 27 | 3 | 85 | 0 | 3.14 | |||
| MA Butcher | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 | (1nb) |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | lbw b Pollock | 11 | 23 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 52.38 | |
| MA Atherton | b Klusener | 43 | 170 | 115 | 7 | 0 | 37.39 | |
| N Hussain | lbw b Donald | 0 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | b Donald | 28 | 67 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 82.35 | |
| GP Thorpe | b Klusener | 43 | 55 | 59 | 5 | 0 | 72.88 | |
| MR Ramprakash | c Kallis b Adams | 11 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 110.00 | |
| MA Ealham | c Pollock b Klusener | 7 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 58.33 | |
| DG Cork | st †Boucher b Adams | 2 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| RDB Croft | not out | 1 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
| Extras | (b 10, lb 6, w 8) | 24 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets dec; 45.1 overs) | 170 | (3.76 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat ARC Fraser, D Gough |
| Fall of wickets1-24 (Butcher, 5.4 ov), 2-31 (Hussain, 8.3 ov), 3-80 (Stewart, 22.1 ov), 4-148 (Thorpe, 38.1 ov), 5-153 (Atherton, 40.1 ov), 6-167 (Ramprakash, 41.5 ov), 7-167 (Ealham, 42.5 ov), 8-170 (Cork, 45.1 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 10 | 1 | 48 | 2 | 4.80 | (1w) | ||
| SM Pollock | 12 | 2 | 43 | 1 | 3.58 | (4w) | ||
| L Klusener | 11 | 4 | 27 | 3 | 2.45 | |||
| PR Adams | 12.1 | 3 | 36 | 2 | 2.95 |
| Match details |
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Toss South Africa, who chose to field Series 5-match series level 0-0 |
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Player of the match
MA Atherton (England) |
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Umpires
DR Shepherd and RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe) TV umpire JH Hampshire Match referee Javed Burki (Pakistan) |
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Close of play 4 Jun day 1 - England 1st innings 249/1 (MA Atherton 103*, AJ Stewart 28*, 92 ov) 5 Jun day 2 - England 1st innings 462 6 Jun day 3 - South Africa 1st innings 192/5 (JN Rhodes 36*, SM Pollock 0*, 75.2 ov) 7 Jun day 4 - England 2nd innings 170/8 (RDB Croft 1*, 45.1 ov) 8 Jun day 5 - no play |
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