South Africa vs West Indies Cricket Series 2007-08
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West Indies will play 5 ODIs & 2 T20s, followed by 3 test matches during the South Africa tour starting December 16 2007.
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Cricket Matches Schedule
- Sun 16, December 2007: 1st T20 - South Africa vs West Indies at Port Elizabeth
- Wed 26 - Sun 30, December 2007: 1st Test - South Africa vs West Indies at Port Elizabeth
- Wed 2 - Sun 6, January 2008: 2nd Test - South Africa vs West Indies at Cape Town
- Thu 10 - Mon 14, January 2008: 3rd Test - South Africa vs West Indies at Durban
- Fri 18, January 2008: 2nd T20 - South Africa vs West Indies at Johannesburg
- Sun 20, January 2008: 1st ODI - South Africa vs West Indies at Centurion
- Fri 25, January 2008: 2nd ODI - South Africa vs West Indies at Cape Town
- Sun 27, January 2008: 3rd ODI - South Africa vs West Indies at Port Elizabeth
- Fri 01, February 2008: 4th ODI - South Africa vs West Indies at Durban
- Sun 03, February 2008: 5th ODI - South Africa vs West Indies at Johannesburg
South Africa vs West Indies Cricket Series 2008
South Africa vs West Indies 4th ODI at Durban
South Africa defeat West Indies in fourth ODI (4:0)
Fri 01, 2008
Retiring hometown hero Shaun Pollock fittingly hit the winning runs in his last international match at Kingsmead as South Africa cruised to a five-wicket victory over West Indies.
The 34-year-old all-rounder, playing his penultimate international before retiring, sent a full toss from Dwayne Bravo to the boundary to ease the hosts past their victory target to go 4-0 up in the five-match series. After winning the toss and opting to bat, Jerome Taylor smashed a quickfire 43 to help West Indies recover from a middle-order collapse and post 263 for nine.
Herschelle Gibbs led the Proteas' response with a blistering 77 from 86 balls while captain Graeme Smith hit an aggressive 50 before Pollock finished the job off.
Smith smashed his third half-century of the series - his 35th in ODIs - before being caught next ball by Shivnarine Chanderpaul at short mid-wicket off Darren Sammy with the total on 77. Jacques Kallis contributed just one before getting an outside edge to Sammy at point off the bowling of Fidel Edwards, and then Gibbs got an inside edge in Dwayne Bravo's first over and dragged onto his leg stump for 39. And Bravo made the next breakthrough when JP Duminy miscued and was caught by Taylor at mid-on for 44.
AB De Villiers passed 2000 ODI runs on his way to 77 before finding Bravo at mid-wicket off the bowling of Daren Powell. But Pollock and Mark Boucher saw the South Africans home with more than two overs to spare. Both finished 21 not out, with Pollock hitting a four off Bravo to conclude matters.
Earlier on Friday, the tourists had been 206 for nine before Taylor's late cameo - his career-best unbeaten 43 coming from just 21 balls - helped guide them to their highest total of the series.
SA vs WI, 4th ODI, Durban: South Africa 266-5 (47.5 overs) beat West Indies 263-9 (50 overs)
South Africa vs West Indies Cricket Series 2008
South Africa vs West Indies 4th ODI at Durban
Scores
West Indies won the toss and decided to bat
263 for 9 (50.0 overs)
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266 for 5 (47.5 overs)
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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Parchment | lbw | b Nel | 48 |
80 | 5 | 1 |
Chattergoon | c Boucher | b Pollock | 48 |
68 | 8 | 1 |
Chanderpaul | c Smith | b Botha | 28 |
41 | 2 | 0 |
Samuels | c Gibbs | b Nel | 4 |
6 | 0 | 0 |
Bravo | run out | 18 |
32 | 1 | 0 | |
Browne | c and b | M Morkel | 34 |
24 | 3 | 2 |
Sammy | c Boucher | b Ntini | 2 |
6 | 0 | 0 |
Lewis | b M Morkel | 15 |
8 | 1 | 0 | |
Taylor | not out | 43 |
21 | 5 | 2 | |
Powell | run out | 0 |
1 | 0 | 0 | |
Edwards | not out | 12 |
15 | 2 | 0 | |
Extras | 2nb 1w 8lb | 11 | ||||
Total | for 9 | 263 | (50.0 ovs) |
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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Smith | c Chanderpaul | b Sammy | 50 |
37 | 10 | 0 |
Gibbs | b Bravo | 39 |
52 | 3 | 2 | |
Kallis | c Sammy | b Edwards | 1 |
6 | 0 | 0 |
de Villiers | c Bravo | b Powell | 77 |
86 | 7 | 0 |
Duminy | c Taylor | b Bravo | 44 |
60 | 4 | 0 |
Pollock | not out | 21 |
24 | 2 | 0 | |
Boucher | not out | 21 |
23 | 3 | 0 | |
Extras | 1nb 6w 6lb | 13 | ||||
Total | for 5 | 266 | (47.5 ovs) |
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Umpires: D J Harper, I L Howell
South Africa: Gibbs, Smith, Kallis, de Villiers, Duminy, Boucher, Pollock, Botha, M Morkel, Nel, Ntini
West Indies: Parchment, Chattergoon, Browne, Samuels, Chanderpaul, Bravo, Sammy, Lewis, Taylor, Powell, Edwards
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Cricket series schedule
- Thu 26, Feb - Mon 2, March 2009: South Africa v Australia 1st Test at Johannesburg
- Fri 6 - Tue 10, March 2009: South Africa v Australia 2nd Test at Durban
- Thu 19 - Mon 23, March 2009: South Africa v Australia 3rd Test Cape Town
- Fri 27, March 2009(D/N): South Africa v Australia 1st T20 at Johannesburg
- Sun 29, March 2009(D/N): South Africa v Australia 2nd T20 at Centurion
- Fri 3, April 2009(D/N): South Africa v Australia 1st ODI Durban
- Sun 5, April 2009: South Africa v Australia 2nd ODI Centurion
- Thu 9, April 2009(D/N): South Africa v Australia 3rd ODI at Cape Town
- Mon 13, April 2009: South Africa v Australia 4th ODI at Port Elizabeth
- Fri 17, April 2009(D/N): South Africa v Australia 5th ODI at Johannesburg