In another case of dehydration, the victim was a home athlete, synchronised swimmer Suzana Ghazali Bujang, who fainted while training yesterday. She is however reportedly out of danger according to the team statement. Interestingly, the team manager, Patricia Ghazali Bujang, is also her mother. ``She was suffering from dehydration as she was not been consuming enough water,'' said the mother-cum-manager.

Suzana, who was warming up for her training by the pool side at eight in the morning, suddenly felt that her eyes began to roll backwards and shecollapsed without warning.

In a slightly unrelated glitch, the Australian netball team took an unexpected tour of the city, as the bus which was supposed to take them to the training ground took more than two hours to reach the destination. It had the organisers and the Australian journalists guessing as to why they failed to report for the training session. The reason: the bus driver lost his way and finally arrived more than one and a half hours late at the Juara Stadium at Bukit Kiara today. Today is the last day of warm-up sessions at the venue.

The South African cricketers have a way of landing into ridiculous situations. At the 1992 World Cup in Australia, when they were in with a winning chance against England, rain intervened in such a manner, that it left them with just one ball to play and something like 34 runs to score off it. This afternoon at the Aman Club, their bowlers did well enough to have minnows Northern Ireland at 89 for five in 38.1 overs, when rain paid its daily visit. Only thistime it came a little earlier than everyday.

It was about 25 minutes 12 when it started and when play resumed it was past four. The South Africans were informed that the match was now reduced to 38 overs a side and that they would now go in to bat. But their target, would be 131! Strange indeed for their rivals had scored only 89 in that many overs.

The South Africans managed to win despite the laughable situation as captain Shaun Pollock and Dale Benkenstein helped them post a four-wicket win in 31.4 overs in a group C cricket league match.

Pollock (30) and his Natal skipper Dale Benkenstein (44 not out) put on 58 runs for the sixth wicket before Pollock was out. South Africa at one time were five down for only 57 runs.

Brief scores

N Ireland: 89 for 5 in 38.1 overs lost to S Africa 131 for six in 31.4 overs. Match reduced to 38 overs and revised target for SA was 131 in 38 overs.

Kenya 144 for 8 in 50 overs lost to New Zealand 145 for 5 in 47.3 overs.