07/06Result
3rd Match (D/N), West Indies Tri-Nation Series at Providence, Jun 7 2016
South Africa won by 47 runs
Player of the Match
Farhaan Behardien
Farhaan BehardienSouth Africa
07/06Result
3rd Match (D/N), West Indies Tri-Nation Series at Providence, Jun 7 2016
South Africa won by 47 runs
Player of the Match
Farhaan Behardien
Farhaan BehardienSouth Africa

8.10pm South Africa, playing with three specialist spinners for the first time since 2011 in ODIs, secured their first points in the tri-series with a resounding win. After slumping to 112 for 6, Behardien stroked a mature half-century to boost his side to 189. Parnell then set up the defence by pinning Warner lbw in his first over. Rabada got the ball to swing before the spin trio - Tahir, Phangiso and debutant Shamsi - twisted Australia into knots. Finch played a lone hand, sweeping his way to 72. Barring Finch, Lyon and No.11 Hazlewood were the only Australian batsman to reach double-figures. The umpiring blunders will perhaps be a talking point from this match. The umpires had set a high bar for lbw decisions off deliveries straightening down the line of the stumps from around the wicket in the previous game. Nonetheless, SA get the result they would have been desperate for.

Farhaan Behardien is the Man of the Match: "A dogged performance was needed today, we trained quite nicely yesterday. So tough out there, took a lot of mental energy. Mentally, you got to have thick skin. Very tough in the beginning, lucky enough to bat till the end. The message from the dressing room was to bat till the 47-48th over no matter what the situation, the run-rate was."

Steven Smith: "We didn't adapt well enough with the bat today. Behardien played a good innings, got them to 180 which was par. We got to be better, we have to play better on wickets like these. We got to keep improving throughout the tournament, a couple of tough games ahead of us.

AB de Villiers: "Very satisfying. We love winning games, I thought we had a fantastic game. 100 overs is a long time, a lot of ups and downs. We used the momentum to our advantage. We started well with the two seamers, not the kind of wicket where the seamers were having the time of their lives. I don't see a lot of batters picking Shamsi. The ball got a little wet, and I thought they are only 40 runs out. Happy to finish things off fantastically."

34.2
W
Phangiso to Lyon, OUT, straight and given! South Africa secure a bonus-point win. Flat on middle and leg, Lyon misses his sweep this time and ump Illingworth signals the end of this game

NM Lyon lbw b Phangiso 30 (51m 31b 4x4 0x6) SR: 96.77

34.1
4
Phangiso to Lyon, FOUR, slogged away for four. Tossed up outside off, Lyon gets low and swats it into the gap at midwicket. Found a gap nicely

Phangiso

END OF OVER:
34 | 7 Runs | AUS: 138/9 (52 runs required from 16 overs, RR: 4.05, RRR: 3.25)

  • Josh Hazlewood11 (11b)
  • Nathan Lyon26 (29b)
  • Kagiso Rabada7-1-13-3
  • Imran Tahir8-0-39-2
33.6
0
Rabada to Hazlewood, no run, full on off, Hazlewood backs out of the line, like a tail-ender, but defends comfortably

Darsh: "The tail enders should've openned"

33.5
1
Rabada to Lyon, 1 run, back of a length delivery on leg, turned to square leg
33.4
2
Rabada to Lyon, 2 runs, punched behind point for a couple. Easily played.
33.3
0
Rabada to Lyon, no run, fullish on off, mis-timed to midwicket

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Economical Hazlewood

2005

Last time an Australian opening bowler had a better economy than Hazlewood's (2.00) in this match, bowling all 10 overs - McGrath 2/18 vs Pak, SCG, Jan 2005.

Behardien's show

0

No. of boundaries hit by SA batsmen apart from Farhan Behardien in the last 36.4 overs of the innings (220 balls). Behardien hit 4 fours and a six.

Bowlers in control

53

Runs conceded by Aus bowlers in the second set of 20 overs, 21st to 40th. In the first 20 overs, they had conceded 90 runs,

Some resistance

65+

Balls played by the pair of Behardien and Phangiso for the 7th wicket, which is more than the last 3 wickets combined.

Another collapse on cards?

3

No. of wickets SA lost in the last 7 overs - 19th to 25th. They scored just 23 runs in those 7 overs including a maiden over bowled by Coulter-Nile.

Different ABD

0

No. of boundaries hit by AB de Villiers in the 2 innings of this series facing 87 balls. He scored 31 (49) vs WI and 22 (38) vs Aus today but with nil boundaries.

Run outs vs Aus

3

No. of times Amla has been run out against Aus in ODIs, most against any team. WI is the only other team against which he has been run out more than once.

Aus v SA in WI

2

No. of ODIs between Australia and South Africa in West Indies, before this Tri-Series - both in World Cup 2007. Aus won both those matches.