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South Africa vs West Indies Cricket Series 2007-08

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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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

West Indies Innings

263 for 9 (50.0 overs)

South Africa Innings

266 for 5 (47.5 overs)

West Indies Innings - Close

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
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)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Pollock	10.0	3	38	1
Ntini	9.0	1	80	1
Nel	10.0	1	44	2
M Morkel	10.0	0	60	2
Botha	10.0	0	32	1
Kallis	1.0	0	1	0

Fall of wicket
97	Chattergoon
100	Parchment
108	Samuels
150	Bravo
155	Chanderpaul
167	Sammy
200	Browne
205	Lewis
206	Powell

South Africa Innings - Close

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
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)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Taylor	9.0	0	48	0
Powell	10.0	1	49	1
Sammy	10.0	0	58	1
Edwards	5.0	0	39	1
Bravo	8.5	0	31	2
Lewis	5.0	0	35	0

Fall of wicket
77	Smith
78	Kallis
119	Gibbs
218	Duminy
228	de Villiers

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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