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SA-UAE opener at stake
RAWALPINDI. Feb 14: Spring rains battered Rawalpindi Wednesday cancelling South Africa's practice session and threatening Thursday's World Cup cricket match against the United Arab Emirates? reports AP.
Deprived of a possible final in the 1992 World Cup In Australia by the controversial "rain rule" invoked following an untimely shower in the
semifin.il against England. South, Africa, is hoping for better luck iQ this year's World Cup play.
However. Thursday’s match could end up being a non-starter as a heavy spring rain disrupted-workouts for both teams.
“We don't want a repeat of that again." said South African coach Bob Woolmer. "The riilea are different in this tournament."
The South Africans mindful of the UAE's ability t6 create a’tournament shat-.tering upset are not taking anything for granted.
"We have come here for the World Cup and.lt is a very, very serious tournament. Andwhe«berwsre
playing United Arab Eml-rates. Pakistan or Australia, it's exactly the same." said Woolmer.
This is the World Cup." he said, "you don't take anybody lightly.''
Woolmer wants his side to qualify with an uninterrupted five out of five, but said. "I think we should win at least two of our round-robin games."
Despitfe a lackluster warmup. South African skipper Hansie Cronje is pleased with the preparation.
"We have done everything
— arc equally hopeful. ’ 4
We had to fight hard to qualify." said skipper Sultan Zarwani. one of the two native-born players. The other is Saeed Al Zaffar while the rest of the squad was picked from expatriate workers from India. Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Just making it into the World Cup has been great for us. Now we are going to give it our best shot." he said.
TEAMS
SOUTH AFRICA: Hansie Cronje (captain). Andrew Hudson. Gary Kirsten. Daryll' Cullinan. Jonty Rhodes.
possible. The boys can't wait until the tournament proper starts." he said. They want to
Africans are
Inloved by their recent 6-1 success over England in the one-dayers.ajid hope they can carry their winning streak into the World Cup.
Paceman Fanie de Villiers with a sprained ankle sustained inr his first practice match is expected to miss at least the first two games.
The UAE s-quaiified by winning the 1994 ICC trophy
Ja< ques Kallis. Brian McMillan, Steve Palframen. Shaun Pollock. Pat Synicbx. Craig Matthews. Allan Donald. Paul AdamS.
UAE: Sultan Zarawani (captain). Vijay Mehra. Salim. Raza. Syed Saeed. Mazhar Hussain. Ishaq Mohammad. Shahjad Altaf. Shaukat Duk-anwala. Mylvaganam Ganesh. Imtiaz Abbasi. Johanne Samarasekera. Arshad Laiq. Mohammad Aslam. Saeed Al-Saffar.
Umpires: V K Ramaswamy of India and Steve Bucknor of West Indies. TV umpire: Anil Sarkar.
Match Referee: Rajnan MAdugalle (Sri Lanka).