The Hindu : Most Cup appearances for Rhodes

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Friday, Feb 14, 2003

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Most Cup appearances for Rhodes

** Jonty Rhodes was appearing in his 24th Cup match, which is the most by a South African player. Hansie Cronje and Allan Donald have appeared in 23 Cup matches each.

** Mark Boucher's two catches takes his tally to 15 dismissals (includes all catches) which equals the tally of Dave Richardson (14 cts+1st) - the most by a South African keeper in the World Cup.

** Lance Klusener's 4-16 was the best bowling performance at this ground bettering teammate Makhaya Ntini's 4-33 against Australia on 27-3-2002.

** The unbeaten 142-run partnership between Herschelle Gibbs and Gary Kirsten was the best for any wicket at this ground bettering the 129-run stand put on between Boeta Dippenaar and Nicky Boje for the second wicket against the Kiwis on 20-10-2000.

** South Africa's 10-wicket win was the fourth such victory achieved in the WC. India had beaten East Africa at Leeds in 1975; while West Indies - on two occasions - achieved this margin of victory while defeating Zimbabwe (at Birmingham in 1983) and Pakistan (at Melbourne in 1992).

** Lance Klusener received his 19th man of the match award of his career in 151 matches. He now shares the South African record for the most man of the match awards with fellow teammate Jacques Kallis (in 170 matches).

** The award was also Klusener's fifth in the WC in just 11 matches. He joins West Indian Viv Richards, England's Graham Gooch & India's Sachin Tendulkar to become the players with maximum man of the match awards in the World Cup.

Mohandas Menon

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