Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
    R
    B
    M
    4s
    6s
    SR
    32.5 good diving catch! Marsh remains bogged down and doesn't use his feet much, looking to turn the ball to midwicket but closing the face too early and the leading edge is brilliantly taken by Gibbs, sliding in from extra cover and grasping it mere inches off the turf 166/3
    4.1 lovely delivery, pitching short of a length in line with the stumps and nipping off the upright seam, cramping and squaring up Warner, with no foot movement, and the half-hearted shot towards the on side draws a faint edge through to Boucher, and thus Warner fails on his ODI debut 17/1
    29.2 finally someone holds on, and its de Villiers who sashays across to his left to pouch the offering at deep backward square leg! Ponting swivels on an ambitious pull shot but gets underneath it and sends the ball down de Villiers' throat, the end of a charmed innings from Ponting 152/2
    39.1 in the air and taken by a diving backward point! Kallis gets another, rolling the fingers across a cutter which Michael scoops in the air to Gibbs, sliding and taking it to his right 190/4
    44.5 and he's gone, looking to get innovative! David Hussey backs away only to scoop a full and wide delivery off the toe end of the bat straight to Morkel at backward point 218/6
    40.3 White falls to a soft dismissal, just chipping straight to Botha at midwicket 197/5
    49.5 now thats something I haven't seen for a while! Ntini pitches full and straight, Haddin swings a straight drive back onto the stumps, the ball ricochets away and Harris set offs, Haddin has no chance and Ntini runs back and gleefully uproots a stump 249/8
    47.1 starts off with the sucker ball, full and wide and another scoop to backward point, where Morkel takes a good tumbling catch to his right, cupping it in front and then throwing it away as he hurts a finger 232/7
    49.6 and a wicket off the last ball, as Harris gets under the ball and scoops it off the toe end of the bat, up and over the infield and it settles in Duminy's palms at deep mid-off 249/9
    not out
    0
    0
    1
    0
    0
    -
    Extras
    16 (lb 8, w 8)
    TOTAL
    249/9 (50 Overs, RR: 4.98)
    Did not bat: BW Hilfenhaus
    Fall of wickets: 1-17 (David Warner, 4.1 ov), 2-152 (Ricky Ponting, 29.2 ov), 3-166 (Shaun Marsh, 32.5 ov), 4-190 (Michael Hussey, 39.1 ov), 5-197 (Cameron White, 40.3 ov), 6-218 (David Hussey, 44.5 ov), 7-232 (James Hopes, 47.1 ov), 8-249 (Brad Haddin, 49.5 ov), 9-249 (Ryan Harris, 49.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    DW Steyn1023623.60424030
    M Ntini903934.33324010
    JH Kallis1005725.70276000
    JA Morkel804605.75193010
    J Botha704005.71153020
    JP Duminy602313.83181000
  • BATSMEN
    R
    B
    M
    4s
    6s
    SR
    14.4 pulled out to the deep! Gibbs decides to take on a short cutter from Hopes, but takes the ball on the splice and picks out the man kept back precisely for this type of shot 52/2
    6.3 edged and taken at first slip! Amla flashes a tame drive at one pitched up and he gets a thick outside edge over the top of White's head, the extra bit of bounce undid him 15/1
    34.5 gone, and the man to get! Kallis chases a wide delivery and picks out David Hussey at backward point, who doesn't have to do much to pouch the aerial cut 145/3
    36.1 AB trips and he's gone! Hilfenhaus pitches on the stumps, AB shuffles and taps the ball just wide of midwicket and harries off down the track, he gets the first in good time but stumbles as he turns back for the second, still he continues sprinting and dives full stretch but a good flat throw from Harris comes back to Haddin in time, that was a terrific throw and well taken too 157/4
    46.5 so well bowled, and the frustration results in a run out! Bracken fires in yet another mesmeric yorker, which Duminy fails to pick, he sets out of his crease and pays the price as Haddin knocks down the stumps with an accurate throw 205/6
    41.1 first international wicket for Harris! A nothing shot from McKenzie, trying to run one down to third man from too close to the body he succeeds in chopping onto his stumps 172/5
    not out
    37
    32
    49
    2
    1
    115.62
    not out
    11
    5
    22
    2
    0
    220.00
    Extras
    10 (b 3, lb 2, w 5)
    TOTAL
    244/6 (50 Overs, RR: 4.88)
    Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Hashim Amla, 6.3 ov), 2-52 (Herschelle Gibbs, 14.4 ov), 3-145 (Jacques Kallis, 34.5 ov), 4-157 (AB de Villiers, 36.1 ov), 5-172 (Neil McKenzie, 41.1 ov), 6-205 (Jean-Paul Duminy, 46.5 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    BW Hilfenhaus1026026.00325120
    NW Bracken1003803.80322000
    RJ Harris1005415.40286000
    JR Hopes1004314.30251020
    DJ Hussey702804.00201000
    CL White301605.3350010

Match Details

Toss

South Africa , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

5-match series level 1-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

10.00 start, First Session 10.00-13.30 Interval 13.30-14.15, Second Session 14.15-17.45

Match days

18 January 2009 (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Match Notes

South Africa tour of Australia 2008-09 News

  • Remembering 2008

    As Mickey Arthur takes charge of Pakistan, he could do worse than look back at successful tours of England and Australia eight years ago, when he coached South Africa

  • From hopelessness to neverland

    South Africa's epochal series win in Australia had everything international sport should

  • Greatest Test series' of the modern era

    With five of the six matches decided on the last day, 14 centuries scored, five five-fors taken by the bowlers, and a great well of memories created by the two teams, the back-to-back Test series between Australia and South Africa made for two of

  • It takes two, baby

    Six of the highest 13 partnerships in Test cricket have come in the last six-odd years; the last three months alone have produced six remarkable stands

  • Hughes, McGain and North get call-ups

    The uncapped trio of Phillip Hughes, Bryce McGain and Marcus North have been added to an already green Australian line-up for the three-Test tour of South Africa

South Africa 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st15HH GibbsHM Amla
2nd37JH KallisHH Gibbs
3rd93JH KallisAB de Villiers
4th12JP DuminyAB de Villiers
5th15ND McKenzieJP Duminy
6th33MV BoucherJP Duminy
7th39MV BoucherJA Morkel