Free State v Northerns - Last five overs

Trevor Chesterfield
3 October 1998




41 Northerns - 229/0

Cronje to Rindel: ball pushed into mid-off gap - 1 run

Cronje to Pienaar: off drive cut off by Dippenaar

Cronje to Pienaar: square cut stopped by Wilkinson

Cronje to Pienaar: attempted sweep stopped by Liebenberg

Cronje to Pienaar: push into covers stopped by Dippenaar

Cronje to Pienaar: drive to mid-on single

42 Northerns 231/0

Donald to Pienaar: hard drive through covers 4 runs

Donald to Pienaar: attempts to pull, ball hits pad outside off - leg bye

Donald to Rindel: miscue pull stopped by Liebenberg

Donald to Rindel: drive to covers stopped by Wilkinson

Donald to Rindel: attempts to cut, misses ball

Donald to Rindel: flat-batted on-drive - four runs

43 - Northerns 240/0

Cronje to Pienaar: pull to mid-wicket - Wilkinson dives to pull off a stunning catch; Northerns 240/1 Pienaar c Wilkinson b Cronje 114; batsmen have crossed and Rindel faces (new batsman Van Jaarsveld)

Cronje to Rindel: off drive well-stopped by Wilkinson

Cronje to Rindel: miscues pull stopped by Van Wyk

Cronje to Rindel: square cup well stopped by Liebenberg

Cronje to Rindel: on-drive stopped by Dippenaar

Cronje to Rindel: push to covers - batsmen run a single

44 - Northerns 242/1 14 runs needed off 12 balls

Donald to Rindel: ball turned to fine leg - two runs

Donald to Rindel: push past gully - single

Van Jaarsveld to face (Liebenberg/Donald/Cronje in consultation)

Donald to Van Jaarsveld: short lifting delivery, ball skids off edge of attempted cut for Wilkinson to take catch - Northerns 244 for 2 Van

Jaarsveld fails to score; new batsman Elworthy

Donald to Elworthy: bouncer - umpire Lambson signals 1st bouncer warning

Donald to Elworthy: attempt to off-drive fails to connect

Donald to Elworthy: ball driven square and eludes Cronje two runs

45 Northerns 246/2 - 10 runs needed off six balls

Cronje to Rindel: drive to covers a single

Cronje to Elworthy: ball down leg side, Van Wyk attempts stumping, ball called a wide

Cronje to Elworthy: ball pushed into covers - a single to Elworthy

Cronje to Rindel (crowd starts chanting): Rindel pulls - batsmen run 2

Cronje to Rindel( crowd chanting wildly): Rindel clips ball to square-leg runs a single - four runs needed off two balls (Cronje and Liebenberg consult and field placings altered to stop the ball being forced into the V) 252/2 Rindel 123/Elworthy 3

Cronje to Elworthy: ball drifts leg-side and into batsman's arc enabling him to pull cleanly over mid-wicket: it is lifted for six on to the east embankment into a disbelieving crowd as Elworthy and Rindel shake hands with Free State players while Cronje shakes his head at the audacity of the stroke

Northerns 258/2 (44.5 overs) Rindel 123 not out Elworthy nine not out


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