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Memories of India v South Africa in 1999 World Cup Match

Sarwar89

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It was 2nd Match of 1999 Memorable world cup in England, Brighton.

India actually played well in that game and was a pretty close game, Dada and Dravid's partnership gave India a competitive total of 250 in slightly cloudy conditions. Dada missed his century though.

That was the first match in which we saw Lance Klusener impact first with the ball (3 wickets) later on with batting, when he smashed Agarkar in death overs to clinch a win.

However Kallis was the one who was glue to South African innings, Proteas lost early wickets but they maintained Required Run Rate. Agarkar and Srinath went for plenty of runs. Ironically Kallis also missed a century, was run out on 96.

There were ugly scenes at the end of the match, some spectators ran towards Indian Captain Azharuddin and pushed him in anger.

New Zealand v Bangladesh was a boring complete one sided match in 1999 world cup, Geoff Allot tore apart Bangladesh top order and bowled them out for only 116.
 
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