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Blast from the past: Razzaq pummels SA bowlers to spearhead Pakistan win

Today in SA sport history: October 31

Pakistan's Abdul Razzaq won a final-over duel with SA's Albie Morkel. Pakistan needed 16 runs off the last over. Razzaq hit two sixes and a four to win the match.
Pakistan's Abdul Razzaq won a final-over duel with SA's Albie Morkel. Pakistan needed 16 runs off the last over. Razzaq hit two sixes and a four to win the match. (Marty Melville/Getty Images)

1998 — IBF junior-featherweight champion Vuyani Bungu scores a convincing points win over former IBF junior-bantamweight champion Danny Romero in Atlantic City. Bungu was the main undercard attraction to Naseem Hamed, his opponent 18 months later.

1999 — Dingaan Thobela, the former two-time world lightweight champion who later failed to make the welterweight limit, loses his bid for the marginal WBF middleweight belt, going down on points against Cornelius Carr of England in London.

2008 — Skipper Johan Botha takes 4/19 as the Proteas thrash Kenya by 159 runs in Bloemfontein to take a 1-0 lead in the two-ODI series. JP Duminy contributed 90 to SA’s total of 336/7 and then took 3/31.

2010 — Pakistan edge the Proteas by one wicket with one ball remaining in the second ODI in Abu Dhabi. Colin Ingram made 100 and Hashim Amla and JP Duminy scored half tons to push SA to 286/8. The contest culminated in a final-over duel between Abdul Razzaq and Albie Morkel, with the home side needing 16 runs. The Pakistan batsman struck two sixes and a four to win the match and take his personal tally to 109 not out. The win levelled the five-match series at 1-1.

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