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Rain curtails day8217;s play

CENTURION PARK, JANUARY 14: South Africa lost both their opening batsmen after being sent in to bat in damp conditions on the first day of...

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CENTURION PARK, JANUARY 14: South Africa lost both their opening batsmen after being sent in to bat in damp conditions on the first day of the fifth and final cricket Test against England at Centurion Park on Friday.

South Africa were 43 for two at tea. Play started three and a half hours late after rain and further rain stopped play after 76 minutes of action.Jacques Kallis 25 and Daryll Cullinan 8 were at the crease. Kallis hooked a six off Chris Silverwood and cut the next ball for four before rain stopped play in the same over.

South Africa, who lead the series 2-0, were without strike bowler Allan Donald and batsman Jonty Rhodes. Donald pulled out this morning with gout in his right big toe. He was replaced by Mornantau Hayward, who arrived three hours after the originally scheduled start after flying from Port Elizabeth where he was due to start a provincial game. Rhodes failed a fitness test on an injured hamstring on Thursday and was replaced by Pieter Strydom, 30, a new cap.

Conditions werehelpful to seam-bowling and Gary Kirsten 0 fell on the last ball of first over when he edged a full-pitched ball from Darren Gough to Chris Adams at second slip. Herschelle Gibbs scored the two runs he needed to post his 1,000th run in his 19th Test but scored only three before he gloved a lifting ball from Andrew Caddick to Adams.

 

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