The Mandela Trophy was a one-day International cricket tournament which took place from 2 December 1994 to 12 January 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 all make their maiden ODI hundreds.
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 6 5 1 0 10 2 6 4 2 0 8 3 6 2 3 1 5 4 6 0 5 1 1
Group matches
1st match
2nd match
3rd match
4th match
5th match
6th match
7th match
8th match
9th match
10th match
11th match
12th match
Final series
South Africa won the best of three final series against Pakistan 2-0.
1st Final
2nd Final
Statistical leaders
Most runs PlayerRunsAverageAamer Sohail 432 54.00Adam Parore 279 55.80Sanath Jayasuriya 269 44.83Arjuna Ranatunga 266 66.50Hansie Cronje 266 33.25Ijaz Ahmed 252 42.00Aravinda de Silva 237 39.50
Most wickets PlayerWicketsAverageWaqar Younis 21 17.47Eric Simons 14 17.78Aaqib Javed 11 26.45Chris Pringle 9 27.77Hansie Cronje 8 20.87Chaminda Vaas 8 25.75Fanie de Villiers 8 29.37
References
External links CricketArchive tournament page