South Africa skipper Kepler Wessels brought back Meyrick Pringle in his team for the 1992 World Cup game against the West Indies at Christchurch and the pacer repaid his captain's faith with a memorable performance for the Proteas.

Windies skipper Richie Richardson put the World Cup debutants in and Curtley Ambrose, Malcolm Marshall and Andy Cummins restricted them to 200 for 8. With none of their batsmen going beyond 23 save Peter Kirsten, who top-scored with 56, skipper Kepler Wessels wouldn't have been wrong in thinking that SA's first loss of the tournament was a big possibility. But Pringle broke the Windies's back with strikes that had Brian Lara, Richardson, Carl Hooper, Keith Arthurton waking back to the dressing room.