It was the 1,483rd One Day International Cricket match, and to this day, it might still remain the most memorable final over in the history of One Day International cricket.
At Edgbaston in Birmingham, South Africa were on 9/205, chasing Australia's 214, having survived Shane Warne's brilliant spell of 4/29, with the rampant Lance Klusener facing Damien Fleming.
49.1 - Fleming bowls a full ball around the wicket that Klusener smashes with a cover drive straight to the rope for 4.
5 off 5.
49.2 - Fleming bowls full again, Klusener smashes it so hard that Mark Waugh at long-off had no hope of stopping the boundary, and in the process of tying the scores Klusener moved to 31 off a mere 16 balls.
Scores tied with 4 balls remaining, Steve Waugh brings up his field to stop the single.
49.3 - Klusener miscues it to Darren Lehmann at mid-on and doesn't run, Lehmann notices that Allan Donald at the non-striker's end is backing up a mile out of his ground and has a shot at the stumps, missing by mere inches when Donald was dead to rights.
49.4 - Klusener once again miscues his shot, this time to Mark Waugh, but this time the striker decides to run a suicide single and win the match, but Donald at the other end was watching the ball and didn't notice Klusener take off, so Waugh threw the ball to Fleming, who rolled it along the ground to Adam Gilchrist, running out Donald (Who dropped his bat) for a Diamond Duck to end the match in a tie, sending Australia through to the World Cup Final on Net Run Rate.
Shaun Pollock once told a great story about attending the 1999 Durban July race meeting a few weeks after the match, during which he received a memorable line from a patron:
"At the race, someone came up and asked me which horse I was going to bet on. I am not a betting man, but this is one of the country's more traditional events, and I usually have a small wager."
"I really wasn't sure which horse I was going to put my money on, so I told the man that I didn't know yet. He offered me some advice:
"Whatever you do, don't bet on number 10. He doesn't run."
Completing the joke, the horse with saddlecloth 10 in that year's Durban July race was El Picha.
El Picha won the race.
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