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Rowdy crowd spoils Azhar's day
PIETERMARITZB URO. So uth Afri-c-a. Dec 5: Mo ha mmad Azharud-din's return to form was marred
by unruly crowd scenes at the end of India s six-wicket vlc-
>ry over South African President's XI on Friday, reports Reuter.
The day-night match ended with both teams fleeing for the dressing rooms after home captain Peter Rawson, by prior arrangement with umpires and batsmerf, deliberately bowled four byes which his wicketkeeper made no attempt to prevent
The ball before had been stopped Just short of the boundary with the crowd already engulfing the pitch.
When the playing area was finally cleared, Rawson called in his boundary fielders and bowled wide of the stumps before Joining his team, batsmen Azharuddln and Pravcen Amre and the umpires in a frantic dash for the main stand.
Thejndtan skipper finished on 69 not out his best score of the tour.
The capacity 12,000 crowd had made increasingly regular pitch invasions throughout the match with many spectators clearly affected by alcohol.
Scuffles had broken out on . the grassy banks around the boundary and after the match er spectators were blood
Ai> ambulance came on to the outfield after the game to take off a spectator who, according to a witness, had been felled by a beer can.
In the closing stages, out numbered security staff were Joined by a contingent of well armed soldiers but they, too. were powerless to prevent the final pitch invasion.
In a city with a large Indian community it was Inevitable that some of the Incidents had racial undertones. The parading by some spectators of an African National Congress banner at the interval provoked hostile comments and a few missiles.
With pitch invasions a regular feature of every match so far — this was the first day/nfght game — the security issue will have to be addressed before the seven-match one-day series between India and South Africa opens In Cape Town on Monday.
Azharuddin's 69, of 95 balls, was his first score past 36 in 10 Innings in South Africa.
He helped the touring team to 199 for four and victor^ with 15 balls to spare.,
Cary Kirsten, younger
brother of Test player Peter Kirsten, batted for all but 17 balls of the President s XTs Innings of 196 for eight. He made 100 from 135 deliveries.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard in the day/nlght (50 overs-a-side) tour match between India and the South