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This is an archive article published on December 29, 1999

Caddick in seventh heaven

DURBAN, DEC 28: Career-best figures by Andrew Caddick forced South Africa to follow on for the first time in more than 30 years on the thi...

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DURBAN, DEC 28: Career-best figures by Andrew Caddick forced South Africa to follow on for the first time in more than 30 years on the third day of the third Test against South Africa at Kingsmead today.

Caddick took seven for 46 as South Africa crashed to 156 all out in reply to England’s 366 for nine declared. South Africa were 27 for no wicket in the second innings when bad light ended play 13.5 overs early.

Caddick ripped into the South African top order, dismissing Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis and Gary Kirsten within the space of 11 balls, all with the help of catches by wicketkeeper Alec Stewart.

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He took a further three wickets in five balls in a second spell which started when he had South African captain Hansie Cronje caught by Stewart for 28.

Then he ended a ninth wicket stand of 70 in 75 minutes between Shaun Pollock and Paul Adams which took South Africa to within 13 runs of avoiding the follow on. Pollock made a fluent 64 off 89 balls before being bowled by Caddick shortly after teabefore Darren Gough polished off South Africa by removing Adams.

The wicket of Kallis was the 100th in Tests for the 31-year-old New Zealand-born Caddick, whose best figures in 26 previous Tests were six for 65 against the West Indies at Port of Spain in 1993-94.

The tall fast bowler ran into trouble with umpire Dave Orchard, however, for running on the pitch. After an official warning he switched ends.

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South Africa had not been forced to follow on in their most recent 74 Tests, going back to a match against Australia at Cape Town in 1966-67 before the country was isolated from international sport because of apartheid. England ended a sequence of 16 matches in which they trailed on the first innings, while South Africa had led in 16 successive games, with first innings totals above 400 in their past seven matches.

Scoreboard
England (1st innings):
366-9 decl
South Africa (1st innings): G Kirsten c Stewart b Caddick 11, H Gibbs c Stewart b Caddick 2, J Kallis c Stewart b Caddick 0,D Cullinan b Gough 20, H Cronje c Stewart b Caddick 28, L Klusener c Maddy b Tufnell 15, S Pollock b Caddick 64, M Boucher b Caddick 0, A Donald c Atherton b Caddick 0, P Adams c Atherton b Gough 9, M Hayward not out 0; Extras: (b4, lb1, w1, nb1) 7. Total: (all out, 50.5 overs) 156
Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-11, 3-24, 4-57, 5-74, 6-84, 7-84, 8-84, 9-154Bowling: Gough 15.5-6-36-2, Caddick 16-5-46-7, Silverwood 6-1-38-0, Tufnell 10-1-24-1, Flintoff 3-0-7-0
South Africa (2nd innings): G Kirsten batting 3, H Gibbs batting 24;
Total: (for no loss, 6.1 overs) 27
Bowling: Caddick 3.1-1-10-0, Silverwood 3-0-17-0.

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