| a10929 | |
| Venue | Kingsmead, Durban on 6th January 1998 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Free State won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Free State won by 40 runs |
| Points | Natal 0; Free State 2 |
| Umpires | DF Becker, CJ Mitchley |
| Player of the Match | N Boje |
| Free State innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JF Venter | st Forde b MacQueen | 2 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 40.00 |
| *+GFJ Liebenberg | c and b Watson | 69 | 92 | 144 | 6 | - | 75.00 |
| CF Craven | c Botha b Gilder | 5 | 9 | 13 | 1 | - | 55.56 |
| LJ Wilkinson | st Forde b Botha | 39 | 54 | 65 | 3 | 1 | 72.22 |
| HH Dippenaar | c Botha b Watson | 45 | 50 | 42 | 6 | - | 90.00 |
| N Boje | not out | 42 | 36 | 45 | 1 | - | 116.67 |
| WJ Smit | c Stewart b Johnson | 23 | 18 | 18 | 2 | - | 127.78 |
| HC Bakkes | not out | 14 | 10 | 11 | - | 1 | 140.00 |
| JA Beukes | did not bat | ||||||
| H Botha | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ Vorster | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 1 nb, 10 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 256 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Venter), 2-20 (Craven), 3-95 (Wilkinson), 4-164 (Dippenaar), 5-184 (Liebenberg), 6-233 (Smit) | |||||||
| Natal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gilder | 9 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 54.00 | 5.78 |
| MacQueen | 9 | 0 | 36 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.00 |
| Johnson | 9 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 54.00 | 5.67 |
| Wingfield | 8 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.50 |
| Botha | 7 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 2 | - | 42.00 | 7.57 |
| Watson | 3 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 2 | - | 9.00 | 7.33 |
| Natal innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| NC Johnson | c Smit b Bakkes | 19 | 22 | 25 | 3 | - | 86.36 |
| +KA Forde | b Vorster | 16 | 10 | 18 | 3 | - | 160.00 |
| DJ Watson | b Boje | 40 | 61 | 88 | 4 | - | 65.57 |
| ML Bruyns | lbw b Craven | 20 | 17 | 24 | 4 | - | 117.65 |
| AC Hudson | c Liebenberg b Boje | 23 | 34 | 48 | 3 | - | 67.65 |
| *DM Benkenstein | c Bakkes b Venter | 10 | 22 | 20 | 1 | - | 45.45 |
| ELR Stewart | c Smit b Venter | 3 | 9 | 10 | - | - | 33.33 |
| WR Wingfield | c Craven b Bakkes | 39 | 48 | 57 | 2 | 2 | 81.25 |
| AG Botha | c Boje b Vorster | 23 | 35 | 43 | 1 | - | 65.71 |
| RB MacQueen | c Boje b Vorster | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GM Gilder | not out | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Extras | (8 b, 6 lb, 8 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 43.3 overs) | 216 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37 (Forde), 2-37 (Johnson), 3-71 (Bruyns), 4-128 (Hudson), 5-137 (Watson), 6-147 (Stewart), 7-151 (Benkenstein), 8-206 (Botha), 9-207 (MacQueen), 10-216 (Wingfield) | |||||||
| Free State bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vorster | 7 | 0 | 42 | 3 | 2 | - | 14.00 | 6.00 |
| Bakkes | 6.3 | 1 | 40 | 2 | 1 | - | 19.50 | 6.15 |
| Botha | 5 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.20 |
| Craven | 6 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 1 | - | 36.00 | 3.83 |
| Boje | 9 | 1 | 26 | 2 | 1 | - | 27.00 | 2.89 |
| Venter | 9 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 2 | - | 27.00 | 3.44 |
| Smit | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.00 |