It may have been a dead rubber at the end of a long summer, but a resolute Australia scrapped hard in the field to secure a consolation win in Johannesburg and move up to No. 2 in the ODI rankings. Both innings followed a similar pattern: significant contributions from the top four before the middle [...]
South Africa 317 for 6 (Gibbs 110, de Villiers 84) beat Australia 256 (Haddin 78, Ponting 53, Clarke 50, Steyn 4-44, van der Merwe 3-46) by 61 runs
South Africa began the series as the world’s No. 1 ODI side and they will finish it in the same position after Herschelle Gibbs’ 21st one-day international century [...]
South Africa 289 for 6 (de Villiers 80, Kallis 70, Johnson 4-34) beat Australia 264 for 7 (Ferguson 63, Hopes 63*) by 25 runs
“We need to break the hoodoo,” was how Graeme Smith went into this match with both teams 1-1 in the five-game series. After losing every toss against Ricky Ponting over the summer, [...]
South Africa 132 for 3 (Smith 40) beat Australia 131 (Ferguson 50, Parnell 4-25, Steyn 4-27) by seven wickets
A brutal new-ball effort from Wayne Parnell and Dale Steyn set up a comprehensive seven-wicket win for South Africa that levelled the five-match series 1-1 in Centurion. The first game in Durban was described as a one-sided [...]
South Africa 156 for 5 (van der Merwe 48, Peterson 34, Harwood 2-21) beat Australia 139 for 8 (Hussey 27, Clarke 27, Botha 2-16) by 17 runs