Watch the highlights of South Africa vs England 1st ODI - 1995-96 England tour of South Africa 7-match ODI series - The first One-Day International cricket match between South Africa and England played at the Newlands, Cape Town on January 09, 1996.
Match Overview:
Debutants Shaun Pollock's impressive debut unbeaten 66 with 4 for 34, Jacques Kallis' valuable debut 38 and Allan Donald's three-wickets helped to South Africa thrilling 6-run victory over England and take a 1-0 lead in a nail-biting second ODI.
Match Stats:
- Shaun Pollock became the first South African player to score fifty and take four wickets on debut match in One-day international history and overall the third player to achieved this feat in ODIs after Duncan Fletcher and Gary Crocker.
In-Depth Match Highlights:
South Africa scored 211-8 in 50 overs with top scorer by Debutant Shaun Pollock - who hit a run-a-ball unbeaten 66-runs on his debut ODI match.
Debutant Jacques Kallis - who scored 38 off 65-balls on his debut ODI match - including 3-fours, Hansie Cronje cracked a 24 off 44-balls without a boundary.
Daryll Cullinan cracked a 17 off 33-balls including 3-fours and Jonty Rhodes scored 16 off 33-balls without a boundary.
England best bowler by Craig White, Peter Martin, Dominic Cork each took 2-wickets and one for Dermot Reeve.
England bowled out for 205 in 49.5 overs with top scorer by Graham Thorpe cracked a 62 off 96-balls including two boundaries.
Mike Atherton struck 35 off 56-balls including 6-fours, Neil Fairbrother scored 28 off 40-balls included 2-fours.
Alec Stewart struck 23 off 40-balls including 2-fours and Graeme Hick hit 21 off 18-balls contained 3-fours with strike rate of 116.66.
South Africa best bowler by Debutant Shaun Pollock - who claimed a 4-wickets for 34-runs on his debut ODI match, Allan Donald picked up 3-wickets for 38-runs in 10-overs with economy rate of 3.80, Brian McMillan and Craig Matthews both took one-wickets.
Shaun Pollock named Player of the match for his debut all-round performance to claimed a 4-wickets for 34-runs in 9.5-overs with economy rate of 3.45 after scoring a run-a-ball unbeaten 66-runs including 6-fours.
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