da doce： A tenacious and unrelenting effort in the field ensured South Africacapitalised on Jacques Kallis’ seventh limited overs century as they beat theWest Indies by 132 runs in the third one-day international on Saturday
Marcus Prior05-May-2001A tenacious and unrelenting effort in the field ensured South Africacapitalised on Jacques Kallis’ seventh limited overs century as they beat theWest Indies by 132 runs in the third one-day international on Saturday.South Africa nowtake a 2-1 lead into Sunday’s fourth match, at the same venue here inGrenada.The West Indies were dismissed for 155 in 39 overs as they fell woefullyshort of South Africa’s 287-4.From the moment captain Carl Hooper passed up the opportunity to batfirst on a flat pitch on winning the toss, it seemed the West Indies hadhanded the initiative to the tourists. South African openers Gary Kirstenand Herschelle Gibbs made a flying start, and the West Indians were alreadychasing the game.Their own batting effort could not have got off to a worse start asChris Gayle chipped Shaun Pollock straight to Kirsten at mid-on to beon his way for one.Pollock struck twice more in his opening spell, despite seeing RicardoPowell (15) heave a ball off middle stump and into the grandstand for anenormous six. Powell tried the same shot shortly afterwards and balloonedthe ball to Makhaya Ntini at mid-on and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (16)top-edged a pull and was well caught by Boeta Dippenaar inches inside theropes at fine-leg.Cameos from Brian Lara (31) and Hooper (29) followed, but the WestIndies needed more than walk-on parts from their main men. Lara misjudgedone from Ntini which castled his leg stump and then Hooper was run out incontroversial circumstances.Turning for a second, Hooper appeared at first to be well short of hisground as Mark Boucher broke the stumps – an opinion television umpireEvelyn Jones upheld. But replays showed the bail took an age to fall,rattling on top of the stumps before falling to ground. The law states thatthe wicket shall not be considered down if the bail is only partly ortemporarily dislodged. The debate was still running when the final wicketwas taken.The rest was a foregone conclusion. Marlon Samuels (20) was caught plumbin front by Lance Klusener, Ridley Jacobs (11) was run out by a brilliantpiece of fielding by Gibbs and Justin Ontong got his first wicketin international cricket when Wavell Hinds pulled him straight to long-off.Ontong made it two as Neil McGarrell (8) offered him a simple return catchand Ntini provided the final blow, bowling Mervyn Dillon (4).Earlier, Kallis picked up where he left off in Antigua, the runs comingin a steady flow as he worked the ball around in the middle overs beforelaunching a more serious assault towards the end. He brought up his hundredoff 105 balls with his second six, struck mightily over long-on off Samuels, who together with Gayle played the role of the West Indies’fifth bowler.Kallis’ first six which took him from 85 to 91 was less emphatic and wasalso his only real slice of luck in an otherwise chanceless innings. Anotherpowerful blow looked to be sailing over the ropes before Dillonplucked it out of the sky, but as the fielder tossed the ball infield toCameron Cuffy to complete the catch, television replays showed his footbrushing the ropes and six it was.The innings got off to a rollicking start, Herschelle Gibbs and GaryKirsten piling on 88 runs from the first 15 overs. Gibbs perished on 46from 44 balls, just as the field restrictions were set be lifted, althoughnot before he had straight driven both Dillon and Cuffy for straight sixes.Kirsten passed 50 for the first time since his century in the first Testbut was promptly run out by a direct hit from Gayle and Jonty Rhodes(47 from 51 balls) then added 90 for the fourth wicket with Kallis.Rhodes and Kallis showed all their one-day experience as they kept theruns flowing while the boundaries dried up. Only Hooper could stem thetide, taking 1-32 from ten exemplary overs. Rhodes somehow allowed a Hooperdelivery to squirm through his pads and dislodge a bail, but until Kallissmashed one back to Gayle to be caught and bowled for 107 in the 50th over,it was the only further West Indian success.