Welcome to the highlights of Kenya vs South Africa - The 5th match of the 1996 KCA Centenary Tournament quadrangular One-Day International cricket tournament between Kenya and South Africa was played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi on October 03, 1996.
Match Overview:
Half-centuries from Gary Kirsten, Jonty Rhodes and Hansie Cronje before Pace bowlers Allan Donald's own record-breaking 6 for 23 and Brian McMillan's three-wickets helped to South Africa registered their historic first ODI win against Kenya by a record-breaking 202-runs and effectively booked their place in final in a epic, one-sided fifth match of a KCA Centenary Tournament.
Match Stats:
- South Africa's 202-run win was their largest victory by terms of runs in one-day international, previous biggest win by 169-runs against UAE at Rawalpindi in the World Cup in March and the joint third biggest win by any team in ODIs.
- Allan Donald became the first South African bowler to take a five-wicket haul against Kenya in ODI cricket history.
- Allan Donald's 6 for 23 was the best bowling figures by an South African bowler in one-day international, improving his own record of 5 for 29 against India at Kolkata in 1991.
- Allan Donald became the first South African bowler to take a 100 wickets in ODI cricket history.
- Allan Donald became the first South African bowler to claimed two five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket history.
- South Africa's 305 was their sixth highest score in one-day internationals.
In-Depth Match Highlights:
South Africa scored massive total of 305-8 in 50 overs with top scorer by Gary Kirsten struck 66 off 73-balls including 9-fours & a six.
Hansie Cronje hit a unbeaten 63 off 71-balls including 3-fours & a six, Jonty Rhodes cracked a 54 off 57-balls included 3-fours.
Fannie de Villiers blasted a unbeaten 20 off 11-balls including 3-fours with strike rate of 181.81, Andrew Hudson hit 27 off 38-balls included three-fours and Debutant Herschelle Gibbs - who scored 17 off 22-balls on his debut ODI match -contained a boundary.
Kenya best bowler by Aasif Karim captured two-wickets, Lameck Onyango, Maurice Odumbe and Thomas Odoyo each took one-wickets.
Kenya bundled out for 103 in 25.1 overs with top scorer by Dipak Chudasama cracked a 29 off 41-balls including 6-fours.
Maurice Odumbe hit 19 off 23-balls including 3-fours and Hitesh Modi scored 14 off 29-balls without a boundary.
South Africa best bowler by Allan Donald 6-23, Brian McMillan picked up 3-wickets for 17-runs in 4-overs and Derek Crookes took one-wicket.
Allan Donald named Player of the match for his pace bowling attack to claimed a career-best record-breaking 6-wickets for 23-runs in 9-overs with economy rate of 2.55.
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