Lasith Malinga sent shivers down the spines of the South Africans on March 28, 2007, in a Super Eight match of the 2007 World Cup when he took four wickets in a row towards the end of their innings.
South Africa were cruising towards what could have been a five-wicket win when Malinga started bowling the 45th over. Sri Lanka were all out for just 209 runs and South Africa were 200/5 at the start of that over with legendary all-rounders Jacques Kallis and Shaun Pollock in the middle. Kallis was on 85 off 108 balls while Pollock had taken his time getting his eye in, scoring seven runs off 19 balls.
Pollock hit a four of the second ball of the over and then took two of the fourth to reduce the deficit to four runs needed from 32 balls. This was when Malinga started weaving his magic on the match.
