West Indies level series

Chanderpaul made 150 and Hooper 108 as West Indies piled up 292 for nine after being sent in to bat. Despite the high scoring, South African fast bowler Shaun Pollock took a career-best six for 35.

South Africa were quickly reduced to 18 for three. Despite half-centuries by Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher, the home side were never on target to repeat the sensational run chase which enabled them to win the rain-shortened first limited overs game in Johannesburg Friday.

It was the first major win for the West Indies on their tour of South Africa after they lost all five Test matches and the first limited overs international.

Records tumbled as Chanderpaul and Hooper enabled their side to recover from a disastrous start in which two wickets fell in the first over.

Their fourth wicket partnership of 226 was an all-time best for any wicket for the West Indies, while Chanderpaul notched the highest score made against South Africa in limited overs international cricket.

The run riot seemed unlikely when Philo Wallace and Nixon McLean were both dismissed in Pollock's first over. Wallace sliced the first ball of the match to third man, while McLean, sent in as a pinch hitter, also went first ball when he mistimed a drive to mid-on.

Chanderpaul was in superb touch from the first ball he faced and dominated a third wicket stand of 41 with Brian Lara before he and Hooper thrashed the bowling on an easy-paced pitch.

Chanderpaul raced to his fifty off 42 balls and reached 100 after facing 103 deliveries. He was bowled by Pollock after making 150 off 136 balls with 20 fours. He did not five a chance although he was caught at third man off a no-ball by Pollock when he had made 33.

Hooper lived more dangerously and gave a return chance to Klusener when he had 17. He scored his 108 off 119 balls with eight fours and three sixes.

Pollock claimed three wickets in his first spell and anothert three in the closing overs as West Indies collapsed after Hooper had been caught by Pollock on the long-on boundary in the 47th over.

Guyana teammates Chanderpaul and Hooper surpassed one of the proudest West Indian records when they beat the fourth wicket record of 149 between Clive Lloyd and Rohan Kanhai which provided the foundation for West Indies' triumph against Australia in the 1975 World Cup final at Lord's.

They then beat the West Indian record for any wicket when they went past the 221 by Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards for the second wicket against India in Jamshedphur in 1983/84.

Chanderpaul's score bettered the 122 by fellow West Indian Phil Simmons, the previous best against South Africa, in Kingston in 1991/92.