India were at 71 for no loss by the seventh over when rain halted the play in a one-off Twenty20 international with India at the Wanderers Stadium on Friday. India required another 149 runs with 10 wickets in hand and 12.1 overs to be bowled. Gautam Gambhir 49 and Robin Uthappa 18 were at the crease at the time the games was stopped. Earlier, Jacques Kallis and Colin Ingram shared a rapid century partnership as South Africa posted a formidable total of 219 for four. Kallis made 61 off 42 balls and the left-handed Ingram raced to 78 off 50 deliveries after South Africa were sent in to bat.
The pair put on 119 of 80 balls for the second wicket. Indian captain MS Dhoni used eight bowlers but runs flowed as the batsmen took advantage of a good batting pitch, short boundaries and a fast outfield. Richard Levi gave the hosts a fast start, hitting four boundaries before being caught at slip for 19 off seven balls. The Kallis-Ingram stand enabled the later batsmen to go for their shots, with new cap Farhaan Behardien hitting an unbeaten 20 off 11 balls and Justin Ontong 22 off seven before Albie Morkel, coming in with only three balls remaining, hit Suresh Raina for two sixes and a four.
South Africa launches reforms after bonus scandal: The board of Cricket South Africa on Friday agreed to launch a series of reforms recommended by a ministerial panel that investigated a $600,000 bonus scandal. The board had already suspended chief executive Gerald Majola for one year, but on Friday it agreed to overhaul its governing structures to avoid a repeat of the saga that has damaged cricket’s image in South Africa. Acting CSA president Willie Basson said the board will “apply the recommendations from there in the best interest of Cricket South Africa with the influence and contribution of independent and outside members to enrich the process”. Basson said all CSA affiliates would be asked to provide input to a new steering committee, which would provide guidelines for a meeting later this year gathering the board, sponsors and other interested parties who will decide on how to reform South African cricket. “This is a matter of urgency. I would like this matter to be finished before our annual meeting in September,” Basson said after the board meeting. A government-initiated inquiry headed by retired judge Chris Nicholson in March recommended prosecutors open a case against Majola over a scandal that has dogged the national cricket body for several years. Companies have been reluctant to sponsor the national team and tournaments, and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula said last week that CSA needed fresh leadership to create “a new era of hope and clean governance”.
