& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Pietersen fireworks on

AFP/REUTERS, Centurion
Kevin Pietersen continued his run spree against South Africa and led an England batting recovery in the seventh and final one-day international at Centurion Park Sunday.
Pietersen hammered 116 off 110 balls, his third century of the series, to enable England to reach 240 all out. They had been floundering at 68 for six after being sent in on a slow pitch with uneven bounce.
The South African-born Pietersen was relatively subdued as he and Ashley Giles dug England out of trouble. It took him 72 balls to score his first 33 runs but he switched back into the bludgeoning mode which has characterised his performances in South Africa when he hit left-arm spinner Nicky Boje for two sixes over mid-wicket in three balls.
They were the first of six sixes for
Pietersen, who also hit 10 fours. It took him 80 deliveries to reach 50 but he only needed 28 more to notch his century.
Pietersen, 24, who was not originally included in England's squad but was called up after an impressive debut in Zimbabwe earlier in the season, finished the series with 456 runs in six innings at an average of 152.
He faced only 430 balls in a consistent sequence of cleanstriking, quick-scoring innings.
Giles made a career-best 41 as he helped Pietersen put on 104 off 114 balls for the seventh wicket, while Kabir Ali, who made a breezy 25, shared a 53-run stand off only 27 balls for the eighth wicket.
The hosts made early inroads into England's batting when Marcus Trescothick prodded the second ball of the match, from Shaun Pollock, to point before Makhaya Ntini bowled Michael Vaughan for one off the first ball of the second over.
Geraint Jones (14) and Andrew Strauss (15) put on 31 for the third wicket before they were both removed by Andre Nel.
Graeme Smith then caught Vikram Solanki (five) at short fine-leg from Boje and ran out Paul Collingwood (10) with a direct hit.
The hosts, however, failed to ram home their advantage with Pietersen and Giles, who hit five fours, launching their savage late onslaught.
South Africa, holding a 3-1 lead, clinched the series when the sixth match was rained out in Durban Friday.
They brought back Boje, with allrounder Andrew Hall moving up to open the batting in place of Adam Bacher, who was dropped.
Hall ended Pietersen's innings when the batsman swung across the line in the 48th over. Hall picked up two more wickets in the final over to
SEE PAGE 14 COL 6
FROM PAGE 13
finish with three for 52.
England opening bowler Darren Gough, his team's most consistent bowler in the series, could not play because of a virus and was replaced by fast bowler Steve Harmison.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the seventh and final one-day international between South Africa and England at Centurion on Sunday:
ENGLAND
Trescothick c Gibbs b Pollock 0
Jones c Kemp b Nel 14
Vaughan b Ntini 1
Strauss c Boucher b Nel 15
Pietersen b Hall 116
Solanki c Smith b Boje 5
Collingwood run out (Smith) 10
Giles b Ntini 41
Ali b Hall 25
Wharf not out 3
Harmison b Hall 0
Extras: (nb-3, w-7) 10
Total: (All out in 49.5 overs) 240 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-1, 3-32, 4-36, 5-54, 6-68, 7-172, 8-225, 9-240 Bowler O M R W
Pollock 10 1 36 1
Herschelle Gibbs, Ashwell Prince, Justin Kemp, Mark Boucher, Shaun Pollock, Nicky Boje, Makhaya Ntini, Andre Nel.
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (West Indies) and Brian Jerling (South Africa).
Ntini 9 2 47 2
Nel 10 1 60 2
Hall 9.5 1 52 3
Boje 10 0 34 1
Kallis 1 0 11 0
SOUTH AFRICA: Graeme Smith,
Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis,