Benson & Hedges World Cup - 28th match
England won by 3 wickets (with 1 ball remaining) (revised target)
- ODI no. 741 | 1991/92 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground (neutral venue)
- 12 March 1992 - day/night (50-over match)
| South Africa innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| KC Wessels* | c Smith b Hick | 85 | 170 | 126 | 6 | 0 | 67.46 | |
| AC Hudson | c & b Hick | 79 | 132 | 115 | 7 | 0 | 68.69 | |
| PN Kirsten | c Smith b DeFreitas | 11 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 91.66 | |
| JN Rhodes | run out (Illingworth/Hick/†Stewart) | 18 | 25 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 78.26 | |
| AP Kuiper | not out | 15 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| WJ Cronje | not out | 13 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 86.66 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 4, w 4, nb 3) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 50 overs) | 236 | (4.72 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat BM McMillan, DJ Richardson†, RP Snell, MW Pringle, AA Donald |
| Fall of wickets1-151 (Hudson), 2-170 (Kirsten), 3-201 (Wessels), 4-205 (Rhodes) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DR Pringle | 9 | 2 | 34 | 0 | 3.77 | (3nb, 2w) | ||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 10 | 1 | 41 | 1 | 4.10 | (1w) | ||
| IT Botham | 8 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 4.62 | |||
| GC Small | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7.00 | (1w) | ||
| RK Illingworth | 10 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 4.30 | |||
| DA Reeve | 2.4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5.62 | |||
| GA Hick | 8.2 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 5.28 |
| England innings (target: 226 runs from 41 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AJ Stewart*† | run out (Rhodes/Pringle) | 77 | 122 | 88 | 7 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| IT Botham | b McMillan | 22 | 54 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 73.33 | |
| RA Smith | c †Richardson b McMillan | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GA Hick | c †Richardson b Snell | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| NH Fairbrother | not out | 75 | 133 | 83 | 6 | 0 | 90.36 | |
| DA Reeve | c McMillan b Snell | 10 | 29 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| CC Lewis | run out (Rhodes/Donald) | 33 | 29 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 150.00 | |
| DR Pringle | c Kuiper b Snell | 1 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| PAJ DeFreitas | not out | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 1, nb 2) | 6 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 40.5 overs) | 226 | (5.53 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RK Illingworth, GC Small |
| Fall of wickets1-63 (Botham), 2-63 (Smith), 3-64 (Hick), 4-132 (Stewart), 5-166 (Reeve), 6-216 (Lewis), 7-225 (Pringle) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 9 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 4.77 | (1nb) | ||
| MW Pringle | 8 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 5.50 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| RP Snell | 7.5 | 0 | 42 | 3 | 5.36 | |||
| BM McMillan | 8 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 4.87 | |||
| AP Kuiper | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| WJ Cronje | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4.66 | |||
| PN Kirsten | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to field Points England 2, South Africa 0 |
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Player of the match
AJ Stewart (England) |
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Umpires
BL Aldridge (New Zealand) and DP Buultjens (Sri Lanka) |
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