The Hindu : 7-wkt. win for S. Africa

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Saturday, Jul 12, 2003

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7-wkt. win for S. Africa

By Ted Corbett

SOUTHAMPTON July 11. Zimbabwe, playing like a team which has been lucky to finish third in this NatWest tri-series, lost by seven wickets with 88 balls remaining but it was hardly a day South Africa will want to remember at the Rose Bowl, staging its first one-day international. It learnt that its left-arm slow bowler Nicky Boje, injured against England at Edgbaston, would be out of cricket for three months at least after an operation on his broken ankle that had to be pinned.

He is so badly hurt that he cannot even fly home for another week. The management has also agreed to the release of Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis on compassionate leave, hardly great preparation for the forthcoming Test series against England.

Pollock is concerned about his pregnant wife Tricia and Kallis about his father who is serious ill with cancer.

After Streak had helped his team reach 173 for eight, Douglas Hondo snatched the wickets of Herschelle Gibbs, seriously out of form ahead of the Lord's final, and Martin van Jaarsveld in his first two overs. But captain Graeme Smith and Jacques Rudolph put on 137 for the third wicket as the South Africans eased to victory.

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