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Best performances - Batsmen

MP Breetzke
112(106) 14x4 - 2x6
Control %85%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 25 runs
  • 2x4 - 2x6
9 1 10 26 17 12 13 24
M Jansen
M Jansen
75(59) 7x4 - 4x6
Control %71%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 15 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
0 3 2 9 12 11 20 18

Best performances - Bowlers

KA Maharaj
KA Maharaj
O9.2
M2
R20
W4
Eco2.14
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
3W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
NT Ellis
NT Ellis
O10
M0
R57
W3
Eco5.7
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W

Scorer: Sudeep Poojar | Commentator: Alex Malcolm

South Africa lead the series 1-0. The two teams head to Johannesburg on Sunday for the second ODI. Hope you can join us then.

6.04pm Presentation

South Africa captain Temba Bavuma: "Very satisfied. All round it was a good fight from the batters and the bowlers. Looking at how both innings started, both of them we were under pressure but we managed to get ourselves to a competitive total with the bat and similarly with the bowling as well. We stuck in. The way Matthew Breetzke played, the positions and intensity was something to commend. The way Marco Jansen played as well was great. Helps to have a guy like Keshav in terms of experience with the ball. The spinners did an incredible job."

Australia captain Mitchell Marsh: "Pretty disappointing. South Africa outplayed us. I think they got 100 runs off the last 10 overs. We fell well short tonight. We pushed to try and get a couple of extra wickets and it didn't work out and I thought Marco Jansen played really well. We had our opportunities with the bat. I sound like a broken record but we weren't able to form partnerships. We knew Maharaj and Fortuin were going to be keys for us in terms of how we played them and unfortunately we weren't able to execute. It's a good opportunity to learn from this."

Player of the match is Matthew Breetzke: "It was really tricky early on with those first two wickets going down and against a world class bowling attack we had to dig deep. It took a lot out of me mentally but just grateful that I got through and got that ton and we won the game. That chat was just to play nice and straight. When you looked too square you saw a few leading edges."

5.54pm South Africa win by 67 runs. Extraordinary turnaround. Australia were 129 for 1 after 16 overs and lost 9 for 101 to lose easily. Keshav Maharaj and Bjorn Fortuin did most of the damage. Maharaj took 4 for 20 from 9.2 overs. Fortuin finished with two wickets as did Bosch. The catching from Jansen and Breetzke was also outstanding after those two set up the game with an outstanding partnership. Some soul searching to do for Australia ahead of game two.

Gnasher notes that since the 2023 World Cup Australia's collective batting average of 21.57 against left-arm spin is the worst of all 20 nations playing ODI cricket in that time.

Bhav: "Why on earth were the Australian batsman trying to hit everything out of the park when singles down the ground were enough "

41.2
W
Maharaj to Zampa, OUT, top edged slog sweep finishes in the hands of Breetzke! Another outstanding catch running in from deep midwicket. Zampa tries to mow it over midwicket and the top edge flies high just outside the circle and he charges in to take an excellent tumbling catch

A Zampa c Breetzke b Maharaj 7 (12m 15b 1x4 0x6) SR: 46.66

41.1
0
Maharaj to Zampa, no run, 84kph, darted into off, he's back to defend

END OF OVER:
41 | 6 Runs 1 Wkt | AUS: 230/9 (68 runs required from 54 balls, RR: 5.60, RRR: 7.55)

  • Adam Zampa7 (13b)
  • Corbin Bosch9-0-67-2
  • Keshav Maharaj9-2-20-3
40.6
W
Bosch to Ellis, OUT, chopped on! Short outside off, Ellis tries to mow through midwicket, gets a thick inside edge and it crashes into middle and off. No heroics from Ellis today with the bat

NT Ellis b Bosch 4 (19m 10b 0x4 0x6) SR: 40

Johann: "If SA wins (never a dead cert!) Maharaj should be MoM. If not for him, Aus could have chased 400."

40.5
1
Bosch to Zampa, 1 run, short on off, 129kph, he pulls to deep backward square
40.4
4
Bosch to Zampa, FOUR, lofted over mid-off! Back of a length wide of off, Zampa frees the arms and flat bats it high over mid-off
40.3
0
Bosch to Zampa, no run, full on off, 135kph, he drives to mid-off

Australia 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st90MR MarshTM Head
2nd39TM HeadCPL Connolly
3rd5JP InglisCPL Connolly
4th22MT RenshawCPL Connolly
5th20MT RenshawC Green
6th12MT RenshawJ Edwards
7th27MA StarcMT Renshaw
8th6MA StarcNT Ellis
9th9A ZampaNT Ellis
10th0JR HazlewoodA Zampa