| a10190 | |
| Venue | Willowmoore Park Main Oval, Benoni on 24th November 1996 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Easterns won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Natal won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Easterns 0; Natal 2 |
| Umpires | DF Becker, S Wadvalla |
| Player of the Match | NC Johnson, DJ Watson |
| Easterns innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| PV Simmons | b Bosch | 8 | 15 | 20 | 1 | - | 53.33 |
| MJ Mitchley | run out (Botha) | 39 | 65 | 75 | 5 | - | 60.00 |
| CR Norris | st Forde b Benkenstein | 87 | 105 | 145 | 3 | - | 82.86 |
| GP Cooke | b Pollock | 50 | 52 | 63 | 2 | 2 | 96.15 |
| GW Myburgh | not out | 27 | 27 | 32 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| *TA Marsh | not out | 3 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 60.00 |
| T Blake | did not bat | ||||||
| +GJ Rothman | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Lees | did not bat | ||||||
| AG Pollock | did not bat | ||||||
| JR Meyer | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 11 lb, 5 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 233 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Simmons), 2-86 (Mitchley), 3-182 (Cooke), 4-222 (Norris) | |||||||
| Natal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 9 | 1 | 40 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.44 |
| Bosch | 7 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 6.43 |
| Johnson | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.33 |
| Benkenstein | 6 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 5.00 |
| MacQueen | 8 | 0 | 46 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.75 |
| Botha | 9 | 1 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.56 |
| Natal innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| NC Johnson | not out | 119 | 124 | 170 | 9 | 3 | 95.97 |
| DJ Watson | c Lees b Marsh | 93 | 131 | 160 | 5 | 1 | 70.99 |
| SM Pollock | lbw b Meyer | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| PJR Steyn | c Blake b Marsh | 3 | 7 | 6 | - | - | 42.86 |
| *DM Benkenstein | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| ML Bruyns | did not bat | ||||||
| ELR Stewart | did not bat | ||||||
| +KA Forde | did not bat | ||||||
| AG Botha | did not bat | ||||||
| RB MacQueen | did not bat | ||||||
| T Bosch | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 b, 10 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 42.2 overs) | 234 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-222 (Watson), 2-222 (Pollock), 3-227 (Steyn) | |||||||
| Easterns bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Meyer | 9 | 1 | 52 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 5.78 |
| Simmons | 7.2 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.77 |
| Pollock | 7 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.86 |
| Marsh | 5 | 0 | 36 | 2 | - | - | 15.00 | 7.20 |
| Norris | 9 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |
| Lees | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.20 |