da betobet： BLOEMFONTEIN, Jan 19 – Kwazulu-Natal turned this game on its head and inthe process almost guaranteed themselves a place in the last for of theStandard Bank Cup with a 12-run win over Free State in Bloemfontein underthe Duckworth/Lewis method on
MWP19-Jan-2001BLOEMFONTEIN, Jan 19 – Kwazulu-Natal turned this game on its head and inthe process almost guaranteed themselves a place in the last for of theStandard Bank Cup with a 12-run win over Free State in Bloemfontein underthe Duckworth/Lewis method on Friday night.Controversy, contention and complication are never too far away when MrDuckworth and Mr Lewis are asked to bring their statistical minds to bear ona weather-affected match, but experience is proving that cricket hasdiscovered a system at least less objectionable than those that went before.Unless you were a Free State fan at Goodyear Park on Friday, that is.Several scratched heads must have been struggling to come to terms with atarget of 152 off 33 overs after Natal had managed just 124 for six andfaced four more deliveries when the rain brought an early close to theinnings and an early dinner.But whatever the vagaries of the Duckworth/Lewis method, Free Stateshould still have won this game. As it is they now know their time in thecompetition is running out. After reaching 102 for one with plenty of oversin hand, the game was theirs for the taking.The 23rd over proved the pivotal point of the game. Bowled by 26year-old paceman Jonathan Bastow, it yielded no less than four Free Statewickets, a position from which they never recovered. There was no hat-trick,but figures of 6-26 were comfortably a career-best for Bastow.