http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JP-Duminy-c1742 star of the show
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 have a great chance of making history as they look to chase down a target of 266 against South Africa in the 4th One-Day International. India lead the 5-match series 2-1 and now have the opportunity to win their
first ever ODI series on South African turf. JP Duminy was the star for South Africa as he guided them to a respectable total, while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Johan-Botha-c67173 played a supporting role. India’s unlikely star with the ball was Yuvraj Singh, who got 3 wickets.
The home team won the toss and selected to bat first; Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith finally got off to a decent start. The runs were not flowing at full throttle but the openers made sure that they did not give the Indians any early
wickets. The opening stand lasted till the 12th over and added 57 runs; Smith was the first one to. The left-hander was caught off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashish-Nehra-c46293 for 18 runs.
Next man in was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 has been struggling for runs recently
and failed to find his form. The 3rd wicket to fall for South Africa was that of Hashim Amla, who was run out while going for a quick single for a well-made 64 runs. De Villiers was dismissed for just 3 runs in the next over; he was caught behind
while trying to cut a close one from Yuvraj.
At 115 for 4, South Africa were looking for a partnership, and JP Duminy was joined by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Faf-du-Plessis-c1427. The two had put on a long partnership in the last game to build the South African innings. However, du Plessis was dismissed
early this time; the right-hander was run out for just the single run.
Johan Botha finally gave Duminy support. The two slowly started rebuilding the innings and added 70 runs for the 6th wicket. Botha was dismissed for 44 when he was stumped by Dhoni on Yuvraj’s bowling.
Left-handed Robin Peterson and Duminy started using big hits in the final powerplay, and took the score to a respectable position. Peterson scored 31 runs and was the 3rd man to get run out. Duminy remained unbeaten
at 71 runs as South Africa ended the innings at 265 for the loss of 7 wickets.
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