South Africa win rain-ruined fourth one-dayer

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – South  Africa levelled the one-day series at 2-2 by beating India by 48  runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method after bad weather ruined the  fourth match today.
India, chasing 266 for victory, were 142 for six when rain  ended play in the 33rd over. The fifth and final game in  Centurion will be played on Sunday.
Earlier, JP Duminy rescued South Africa from a middle-order  collapse to take them to 265 for seven at St George’s Park.
Duminy’s unbeaten 71 allowed the home team to recover from  118 for five after electing to bat first.
The left-hander had two able lower-order partners in Johan  Botha (44) and Robin Peterson (31), sharing partnerships of 70  and 54 respectively for the sixth and seventh wickets.
Hashim Amla (64) set the early pace as he became the fastest  batsman to score 2,000 runs in one-dayers. He needed just 40  innings to break the previous record of 45 shared by Pakistan’s  Zaheer Abbas and England’s Kevin Pietersen.
Spinner Yuvraj Singh took three for 34 while Virat Kohli  featured in two run-outs and claimed a superb catch at slip to  remove Morne van Wyk for 15.
Paceman Lonwabo Tsotsobe then removed India openers Rohit  Sharma (1) and Parthiv Patel (11) in his first spell to put  South Africa on top.
Yuvraj also fell to spinner Botha for 12 as the visitors  slumped to 49 for three.
Kohli, though, smashed 87 not out in 92 balls to keep India  in the game.
He hit two sixes and seven fours but the regular flow of  wickets at the other end meant he would have had a lot of work  to do to carry his team to victory if rain had not intervened.