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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