| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | b Pollock | 116 | 319 | 252 | 18 | 0 | 46.03 | |
| MA Atherton | c Kallis b Ntini | 16 | 76 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 32.00 | |
| N Hussain | c †Boucher b Pollock | 9 | 68 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c Kallis b Donald | 15 | 50 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| MR Ramprakash | c †Boucher b Donald | 21 | 88 | 62 | 2 | 0 | 33.87 | |
| GA Hick | c Rhodes b Ntini | 2 | 38 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 9.52 | |
| A Flintoff | c Liebenberg b Pollock | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DG Cork | not out | 24 | 48 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 72.72 | |
| IDK Salisbury | b Ntini | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| D Gough | c McMillan b Ntini | 2 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| ARC Fraser | c Cullinan b Donald | 4 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 5, w 2, nb 10) | 21 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 83.3 overs) | 230 | (2.75 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 20.3 | 6 | 44 | 3 | 2.14 | (1w) | ||
| SM Pollock | 24 | 8 | 51 | 3 | 2.12 | (7nb) | ||
| M Ntini | 21 | 5 | 72 | 4 | 3.42 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| JH Kallis | 9 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 3.33 | |||
| BM McMillan | 9 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 2.66 | (3nb) |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Kirsten | lbw b Fraser | 6 | 26 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| GFJ Liebenberg | c Hick b Fraser | 21 | 61 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| JH Kallis | c Ramprakash b Cork | 40 | 177 | 134 | 7 | 0 | 29.85 | |
| DJ Cullinan | c †Stewart b Gough | 27 | 54 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 93.10 | |
| WJ Cronje* | lbw b Fraser | 57 | 235 | 163 | 9 | 0 | 34.96 | |
| JN Rhodes | c †Stewart b Gough | 32 | 37 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 82.05 | |
| BM McMillan | c Salisbury b Cork | 7 | 35 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 28.00 | |
| SM Pollock | c Salisbury b Fraser | 31 | 84 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 48.43 | |
| MV Boucher† | c Atherton b Gough | 6 | 24 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| AA Donald | lbw b Fraser | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Ntini | not out | 4 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 20, nb 1) | 21 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 90.3 overs) | 252 | (2.78 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 24.3 | 7 | 58 | 3 | 2.36 | |||
| ARC Fraser | 25 | 9 | 42 | 5 | 1.68 | |||
| DG Cork | 21 | 3 | 72 | 2 | 3.42 | |||
| A Flintoff | 8 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 3.87 | |||
| IDK Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2.00 | |||
| MA Butcher | 9 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 2.55 | (1nb) |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | c McMillan b Pollock | 37 | 147 | 108 | 5 | 0 | 34.25 | |
| MA Atherton | lbw b Donald | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| N Hussain | c Cronje b Pollock | 94 | 421 | 341 | 14 | 0 | 27.56 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c †Boucher b Pollock | 35 | 103 | 68 | 7 | 0 | 51.47 | |
| MR Ramprakash | lbw b Pollock | 25 | 95 | 75 | 4 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| IDK Salisbury | c †Boucher b Pollock | 4 | 21 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| GA Hick | c Kirsten b Donald | 1 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| A Flintoff | c †Boucher b Donald | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DG Cork | c †Boucher b Donald | 10 | 57 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 27.77 | |
| D Gough | c Cullinan b Donald | 5 | 23 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| ARC Fraser | not out | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Extras | (b 14, lb 1, w 2, nb 10) | 27 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 110.2 overs) | 240 | (2.17 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SM Pollock | 35 | 14 | 53 | 5 | 1.51 | (2nb) | ||
| AA Donald | 29.2 | 9 | 71 | 5 | 2.42 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| BM McMillan | 11 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 2.00 | (3nb) | ||
| M Ntini | 15 | 4 | 43 | 0 | 2.86 | (5nb, 1w) | ||
| JH Kallis | 15 | 6 | 31 | 0 | 2.06 | (1w) | ||
| DJ Cullinan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 | (1nb) | ||
| WJ Cronje | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1.00 |
| South Africa 2nd innings (target: 219 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Kirsten | c Atherton b Gough | 3 | 32 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
| GFJ Liebenberg | lbw b Gough | 6 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| JH Kallis | lbw b Fraser | 3 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| DJ Cullinan | lbw b Gough | 0 | 29 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| WJ Cronje* | c †Stewart b Fraser | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JN Rhodes | c Flintoff b Gough | 85 | 211 | 147 | 10 | 1 | 57.82 | |
| BM McMillan | c †Stewart b Cork | 54 | 149 | 120 | 8 | 0 | 45.00 | |
| SM Pollock | not out | 28 | 106 | 74 | 1 | 0 | 37.83 | |
| MV Boucher† | lbw b Gough | 4 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| AA Donald | c †Stewart b Fraser | 4 | 29 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 17.39 | |
| M Ntini | lbw b Gough | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, nb 2) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 75 overs) | 195 | (2.60 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 23 | 6 | 42 | 6 | 1.82 | (1nb) | ||
| ARC Fraser | 23 | 8 | 50 | 3 | 2.17 | (2nb) | ||
| DG Cork | 17 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 2.94 | |||
| A Flintoff | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 3.25 | |||
| IDK Salisbury | 8 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 4.25 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series England won the 5-match series 2-1 |
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Player of the match
MA Butcher (England) Players of the series MA Atherton (England) and AA Donald (South Africa) |
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Umpires
Javed Akhtar (Pakistan) and P Willey TV umpire KE Palmer Match referee AM Ebrahim (Zimbabwe) |
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Close of play 6 Aug day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 9/0 (G Kirsten 4*, GFJ Liebenberg 5*, 4 ov) 7 Aug day 2 - England 2nd innings 2/0 (MA Butcher 0*, MA Atherton 1*, 1 ov) 8 Aug day 3 - England 2nd innings 206/4 (N Hussain 83*, IDK Salisbury 4*, 91 ov) 9 Aug day 4 - South Africa 2nd innings 185/8 (SM Pollock 24*, AA Donald 2*, 68 ov) 10 Aug day 5 - South Africa 2nd innings 195 (75 ov) - end of match |
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Aug 10, 1998 England win the fifth Test at Headingley against South Africa, 1998 © Getty Images |
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