| a12495 | |
| Venue | Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein on 3rd March 2000 (45-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Free State won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Eastern Province won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Free State 1 (Consolation 1); Eastern Province 4 |
| Umpires | CJ Mitchley, S Wadvalla |
| Player of the Match | KD Duckworth |
| Free State innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JF Venter | c Pringle b Kemp | 20 | 29 | 37 | 3 | - | 68.97 |
| AI Gait | b Pringle | 88 | 113 | 145 | 10 | - | 77.88 |
| WJ Smit | b Callaghan | 42 | 68 | 80 | 3 | - | 61.76 |
| MN van Wyk | lbw b Kemp | 40 | 31 | 33 | 6 | - | 129.03 |
| GFJ Liebenberg | b Kruger | 9 | 13 | 16 | - | - | 69.23 |
| JJ van der Wath | b Pringle | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| *+GL Brophy | b Kruger | 2 | 4 | 11 | - | - | 50.00 |
| HC Bakkes | not out | 11 | 10 | 12 | - | - | 110.00 |
| PV Mpitsang | not out | 4 | 5 | 9 | - | - | 80.00 |
| MJ Hoggard | did not bat | ||||||
| D Pretorius | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 4 nb, 5 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 175 minutes, 45 overs) | 229 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-49 (Venter), 2-147 (Smit), 3-199 (Gait), 4-205 (van Wyk), 5-205 (van der Wath), 6-214 (Liebenberg), 7-215 (Brophy) | |||||||
| Eastern Province bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pringle | 9 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 27.00 | 4.56 |
| Kemp | 9 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 2 | - | 27.00 | 5.44 |
| Kruger | 9 | 0 | 46 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 5.11 |
| Callaghan | 9 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 54.00 | 4.67 |
| Abrahams | 7 | 1 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.86 |
| Creed | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 |
| Eastern Province innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CC Bradfield | not out | 77 | 129 | 189 | 5 | - | 59.69 |
| KD Duckworth | c Liebenberg b Pretorius | 110 | 124 | 158 | 3 | - | 88.71 |
| MR Benfield | c van Wyk b Bakkes | 5 | 11 | 19 | - | - | 45.45 |
| DJ Callaghan | c Liebenberg b Bakkes | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | 150.00 |
| *MW Rushmere | not out | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 66.67 |
| +DW Murray | did not bat | ||||||
| JM Kemp | did not bat | ||||||
| MW Creed | did not bat | ||||||
| S Abrahams | did not bat | ||||||
| MW Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| GJP Kruger | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (18 lb, 3 nb, 9 w) | 30 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 189 minutes, 44.4 overs) | 230 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-197 (Duckworth), 2-219 (Benfield), 3-226 (Callaghan) | |||||||
| Free State bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hoggard | 8.4 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | 3.46 |
| Bakkes | 9 | 1 | 32 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 3.56 |
| Pretorius | 9 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 5.22 |
| Mpitsang | 9 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | 5.67 |
| Venter | 7 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.43 |
| van der Wath | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 7.00 |