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Match Date : April 03, 2007
Venue : Providence Stadium, Guyana
Toss : South Africa won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : Siom Taufel (Aus) and Daryl Harper (Aus)
Match Result : South Africa won by 7 wickets (D/L Method)
Man of the Match : Jacques Kallis
Match Report : SA register seven-wicket win over Ireland
Ireland (35 Overs Maximum)
Jeremy Bray lbw b Pollock 0 (9)
William Porterfield c Kallis b Pollock 14 (33) 1 ‘4s’
Eoin Morgan c Prince b Hall 28 (50) 4 ‘4s’
Niall O’Brien (Wk) c Gibbs b Langeveldt 25 (37) 3 ‘4s’
Andrew White c Gibbs b Smith 30 (30) 5 ‘4s’
Andre Botha c de Villiers b Hall 14 (20)
Trent Johnston (C) not out 13 (14) 1 ‘4s’
Kyle McCallan c Boucher b Langeveldt 3 (6)
Paul Mooney c Boucher b Langeveldt 0 (1)
D Langford-Smith not out 17 (10) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Boyd Rankin
Extras : 8 (Wides : 4 No Balls: 0 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 3)
Total : 152/8 (Overs : 35.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-0 (Bray, 2.3 ovs), 2-31 (Porterfield, 12.3 ovs), 3-63 (Morgan, 19.5 ovs), 4-77 (O’Brien, 22.5 ovs), 5-116 (White, 28.6 ovs), 6-119 (Botha, 30.1 ovs), 7-124 (McCallan, 31.3 ovs), 8-124 (Mooney, 31.4 ovs)
South Africa Bowling
Pollock 7-2-17-2
Ntini 7-2-14-0 (2wd)
Langeveldt 7-0-41-3 (2wd)
Hall 7-0-37-2
Kemp 3-0-14-0
Kallis 3-0-20-0
Smith 1-0-5-1
South Africa (Target : 160 from 35 Overs (D/L Method)
AB de Villiers c Porterfield b Rankin 0 (3)
Graeme Smith (C) c&b Johnston 41 (45) 6 ‘4s’
Jacques Kallis not out 66 (86) 8 ‘4s’
Herschelle Gibbs c White b Rankin 6 (15) 1 ‘4s’
Ashwell Prince not out 47 (44) 3 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Mark Boucher (WK)
Justin Kemp
Shaun Pollock
Andrew Hall
Makhaya Ntini
Charl Langeveldt
Extras : 5 (Wides : 1 No Balls: 4 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 0)
Total : 165/3 (Overs : 31.3)
Fall of Wickets : 1-1 (de Villiers, 0.3 ovs), 2-71 (Smith, 12.1 ovs), 3-85 (Gibbs, 16.3 ovs)
Ireland Bowling
Rankin 7-1-26-2 1 1
Langford-Smith 5-0-31-0
Mooney 3.3-0-40-0 (3nb)
Johnston 3-0-15-1
Botha 6-0-18-0
McCallan 5-0-27-0
White 2-0-8-0