Best performances - Batsmen
SE Marsh
79(97) 4x4 - 1x6
Control %84%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 31 runs
- 3x4 - 1x6
JP Duminy
71(93) 0x4 - 0x6
Control %85%
- Productive Shot
- leg glance
- 23 runs
- 0x4 - 0x6
16/01Result
1st ODI (D/N), South Africa tour of Australia at Melbourne, Jan 16 2009
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![Australia]( "Australia")
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![South Africa]( "South Africa")
272/7 (49.3/50 ov)
Player of the Match
16/01Result
1st ODI (D/N), South Africa tour of Australia at Melbourne, Jan 16 2009
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![Australia]( "Australia")
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![South Africa]( "South Africa")
272/7 (49.3/50 ov)
Player of the Match
Best performances - Bowlers
Partnerships
Australia - Innings
South Africa - Innings
Manhattan
Run rate graph
Worm
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
