Mandela Trophy

The Mandela Trophy was a One-Day International tournament which took place from December 2, 1994 to January 12, 1995. The tournament was hosted by South Africa, who were one of the four sides competing with the others being New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Each side played each other twice before the two with the most points took part in a best of three finals series. The finals were contested between Pakistan and South Africa with the hosts winning 2-0.

Man of the Series Aamer Sohail scored 432 runs while his teammate Waqar Younis was the tournament's leading wicket taker with 21 victims. The tournament saw Sanath Jayasuriya, Adam Parore, Dave Callaghan and Michael Rindel make their maiden ODI hundreds.

Contents

Squads

New Zealand Squad
Ken Rutherford (c)
Adam Parore (wk)
Martin Crowe
Richard de Groen
Simon Doull
Stephen Fleming
Lee Germon
Chris Harris
Blair Hartland
Dion Nash
Mark Priest
Chris Pringle
Murphy Su'a
Shane Thomson
Bryan Young
Pakistan Squad
Saleem Malik (c)
Rashid Latif (wk)
Aamer Sohail
Aaqib Javed
Akram Raza
Asif Mujtaba
Ata-ur-Rehman
Basit Ali
Ijaz Ahmed
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Kabir Khan
Manzoor Elahi
Moin Khan
Saeed Anwar
Waqar Younis
Saeed Anwar
South Africa Squad
Hansie Cronje (c)
Dave Richardson (wk)
Dave Callaghan
Daryll Cullinan
Fanie de Villiers
Allan Donald
Clive Eksteen
Andrew Hudson
Steven Jack
Gary Kirsten
Brian McMillan
Craig Matthews
Jonty Rhodes
Michael Rindel
Eric Simons
Richard Snell
Pat Symcox
Sri Lanka Squad
Arjuna Ranatunga (c)
Pubudu Dassanayake (wk)
Hashan Tillakaratne (wk)
Aravinda de Silva
Kumar Dharmasena
Asanka Gurusinha
Sanath Jayasuriya
Ruwan Kalpage
Roshan Mahanama
Muttiah Muralitharan
Ravindra Pushpakumara
Chaminda Vaas
Pramodya Wickramasinghe

Points table

Place Team Played Won Lost NR Points
1  Pakistan 6 5 1 0 10
2  South Africa 6 4 2 0 8
3  Sri Lanka 6 2 3 1 5
4  New Zealand 6 0 5 1 1

Statistical leaders

Most runs

Player Runs Average
Aamer Sohail 432 54.00
Adam Parore 279 55.80
Sanath Jayasuriya 269 44.83
Arjuna Ranatunga 266 66.50
Hansie Cronje 266 33.25
Ijaz Ahmed 252 42.00
Aravinda de Silva 237 39.50

Most wickets

Player Wickets Average
Waqar Younis 21 17.47
Eric Simons 14 17.78
Aaqib Javed 11 26.45
Chris Pringle 9 27.77
Hansie Cronje 8 20.87
Chaminda Vaas 8 25.75
Fanie de Villiers 8 29.37

References