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Vaughan fires England to victory
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/07/10 10:57  Shanghai Daily

  Skipper Michael Vaughan finally hit form with a career-best 83 and shared a match-winning 100-run stand with allrounder Andrew Flintoff on Tuesday as England hammered South Africa by four wickets at Edgbaston.

  After James Anderson had taken 4-38 to restrict the tourists to 198 for nine, England scored 199 for six to win with 11 overs to spare to boost confidence before Saturday's showdown in the final at Lord's.

  Rikki Clarke, 37 runs, shared 64 runs with Vaughan, but the pair fell in quick succession just before the victory was clinched. A wide by Andrew Hall finished the match leaving Chris Read and Ashley Giles without scoring.

  The win wrested the psychological advantage before Saturday's tri-series final. It was also England's second win over the Proteas following the six-wicket win at The Oval. In between, South Africa won at Old Trafford by seven wickets.

  England clinically out-batted, out-bowled and out-fielded South Africa in front of a capacity crowd of 20,000.

  Vaughan led from the front with his first half century in 10 innings in a timely return to form and he crushed South Africa's hopes of taking control after England had slid to a 30 for three following a nervous start.

  The home side lost openers Marcus Trescothick and Vikram Solanki in the space of five balls at 11, and Anthony McGrath to Jacques Kallis' first ball.

  But Vaughan was back to his brilliant best and crowned his 33rd innings for England with 15 fours off 115 balls. The innings made up for his disappointing form this summer. He quickly passed the unbeaten 36 in the washout against Zimbabwe at Headingley which remained his highest score in nine innings.

  His trademark cover drives and the hook shots were played with abundance. The hooked four off fast bowler Makhaya Ntini to open scoring was the standout shot of the day.

  He fell leg before wicket to Andrew Hall with England five runs short of victory without playing a shot.

  Vaughan tried to keep a level head despite the superb innings. "Cricket is a funny game and the time in the middle does help," he said. "It's bound to do me a lot of good. I have been in pretty good touch for two weeks."

  Vaughan said the team showed great character to fight back but said South Africa will be hard to beat in the final on Saturday.

  "The way we beat them is the impressive part. Everyone knows Saturday is a brand new day. If we play 90 percent of the way we played today we got a good chance of winning.

  "South Africa are a very good team and we know they'll fight back. It will be another hard game."

  Smith said South Africa didn't play to its potential and wasn't simply good enough on the day. "We played badly," he said. "We didn't capitalize on our early start, and when we bowled we lacked a plan. We were superb until today, but lost the plot."




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