Benson & Hedges World Cup - 25th match
South Africa won by 7 wickets (with 29 balls remaining)
| Zimbabwe innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| WR James | lbw b Pringle | 5 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 41.66 | |
| A Flower† | c †Richardson b Cronje | 19 | 71 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 43.18 | |
| AJ Pycroft | c Wessels b McMillan | 19 | 63 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 40.42 | |
| DL Houghton* | c Cronje b Kirsten | 15 | 75 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 28.30 | |
| AC Waller | c Cronje b Kirsten | 15 | 28 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 53.57 | |
| AH Omarshah | c Wessels b Kirsten | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| EA Brandes | c †Richardson b McMillan | 20 | 49 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 71.42 | |
| MG Burmester | c Kuiper b Cronje | 1 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 | |
| AJ Traicos | not out | 16 | 49 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| MP Jarvis | c & b McMillan | 17 | 28 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 80.95 | |
| KG Duers | b Donald | 5 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 11, w 13, nb 4) | 28 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 48.3 overs) | 163 | (3.36 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 9.3 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 2.63 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| MW Pringle | 9 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 2.77 | (3nb, 6w) | ||
| RP Snell | 10 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 2.40 | |||
| BM McMillan | 10 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 3.00 | (6w) | ||
| WJ Cronje | 5 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 3.40 | |||
| PN Kirsten | 5 | 0 | 31 | 3 | 6.20 |
| South Africa innings (target: 164 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| KC Wessels* | b Omarshah | 70 | 148 | 137 | 6 | 0 | 51.09 | |
| AC Hudson | b Jarvis | 13 | 26 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 59.09 | |
| PN Kirsten | not out | 62 | 138 | 103 | 3 | 0 | 60.19 | |
| AP Kuiper | c Burmester b Brandes | 7 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 77.77 | |
| JN Rhodes | not out | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 2, nb 3) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets; 45.1 overs) | 164 | (3.63 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat WJ Cronje, BM McMillan, DJ Richardson†, RP Snell, MW Pringle, AA Donald |
| Fall of wickets1-27 (Hudson), 2-139 (Wessels), 3-152 (Kuiper) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| EA Brandes | 9.1 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.36 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| MP Jarvis | 9 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 2.55 | (2nb) | ||
| MG Burmester | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 4.00 | (1w) | ||
| AH Omarshah | 8 | 2 | 32 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| KG Duers | 8 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 2.37 | |||
| AJ Traicos | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 4.33 |
| Match details |
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Toss South Africa, who chose to field Points South Africa 2, Zimbabwe 0 |
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Player of the match
PN Kirsten (South Africa) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and DR Shepherd (England) |
| Match notes |
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