| a5878 | |
| Venue | Buffalo Park, East London on 19th November 1988 (55-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Border won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Eastern Province won by 8 wickets |
| Umpires | KE Liebenberg, RL Symcox |
| Batter of the Match | MW Rushmere |
| Bowler of the Match | BA Matthews |
| Fielder of the Match | DJ Richardson |
| Border innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BW Lones | c Pringle b Thomas | 5 | 11 | 14 | 1 | - | 45.45 |
| LM Phillips | c Shaw b Pringle | 48 | 110 | 138 | 6 | - | 43.64 |
| BM Osborne | c Richardson b Shaw | 16 | 37 | 32 | 2 | - | 43.24 |
| +EN Trotman | b Callaghan | 20 | 39 | 59 | 1 | - | 51.28 |
| NR Boonzaaier | c Richardson b McCurdy | 11 | 23 | 31 | - | - | 47.83 |
| AL Wilmot | b Matthews | 5 | 15 | 23 | - | - | 33.33 |
| *IL Howell | c Richardson b Pringle | 0 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DF Toppin | c Matthews b Pringle | 1 | 10 | 12 | - | - | 10.00 |
| AW Schoeman | c Richardson b Matthews | 4 | 5 | 12 | 1 | - | 80.00 |
| BC Fourie | not out | 36 | 45 | 62 | 3 | - | 80.00 |
| HC Lindenberg | not out | 22 | 38 | 52 | 1 | - | 57.89 |
| Extras | (8 lb, 5 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 225 minutes, 55 overs) | 181 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (Lones), 2-42 (Osborne), 3-88 (Trotman), 4-108 (Phillips), 5-108 (Boonzaaier), 6-108 (Howell), 7-115 (Toppin), 8-115 (Wilmot), 9-122 (Schoeman) | |||||||
| Eastern Province bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| McCurdy | 11 | 1 | 41 | 1 | 2 | - | 66.00 | 3.73 |
| Thomas | 11 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 2 | - | 66.00 | 3.82 |
| Shaw | 11 | 1 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 3.09 |
| Matthews | 11 | 3 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 1.91 |
| Callaghan | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 6.00 | 6.00 |
| Pringle | 10 | 2 | 29 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 2.90 |
| Eastern Province innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| PG Amm | c Boonzaaier b Schoeman | 36 | 75 | 75 | 5 | - | 48.00 |
| MW Rushmere | not out | 77 | 141 | 172 | 9 | - | 54.61 |
| *KC Wessels | c Howell b Schoeman | 49 | 84 | 88 | 4 | - | 58.33 |
| KS McEwan | not out | 9 | 9 | 7 | 2 | - | 100.00 |
| DJ Callaghan | did not bat | ||||||
| +DJ Richardson | did not bat | ||||||
| TG Shaw | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Thomas | did not bat | ||||||
| MW Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| BA Matthews | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ McCurdy | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 172 minutes, 50.5 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-67 (Amm), 2-171 (Wessels) | |||||||
| Border bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Fourie | 10 | 2 | 36 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.60 |
| Toppin | 9 | 2 | 17 | 0 | - | 2 | - | 1.89 |
| Lindenberg | 11 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.36 |
| Howell | 11 | 2 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.64 |
| Schoeman | 8.5 | 1 | 36 | 2 | - | - | 26.50 | 4.08 |
| Wilmot | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |