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Statistical Highlights 3rd match: South Africa v England at Cape Town, 26-1-2000 (d/n)

• This match was the 1549th in Limited over international (LOI) history.

• This match was South Africa's 180th and England's 303rd in LOIs.

• This match was the 20th meeting between the two sides.

• This was the 12th match to be played at this venue.

• Hansie Cronje who was playing in his 175th match has now appeared in 150 matches in a row for South Africa. He has now not missed a single LOI match from 4-9-1993 (v Sri Lanka at Colombo).

• The wicket of Cronje was Darren Gough's 115th of his career. He now equals the tally of Philip de Freitas to occupy the joint second position among English bowlers in LOIs. The English record of 145 wickets is currently held by Ian Botham.

• Graeme Hick during his innings of 25 became the first English batsman to reach 500 runs against South Africa. Playing in his 17th match and innings he now has 502 runs (avg 31.38)

• The three dismissals by Mark Boucher equals the maximum taken by a South African keeper against England.

• The one run victory was the 14th such win in LOIs. It was South Africa's second one run win LOIs. It had achieved a similar win against New Zealand at Hobart on 11-12-1997.

• It was England's narrowest win in terms of runs in LOIs. On four separate occasion it has lost by 2 runs in LOIs.

• Jacques Kallis was winning his 11th Man of the match award of his career in 80 matches.