South Africa in Australia ODI Series - 1st ODI
South Africa won by 3 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SE Marsh | c †Boucher b M Morkel | 79 | 148 | 97 | 4 | 1 | 81.44 | |
| MEK Hussey | c †Boucher b Steyn | 6 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 54.54 | |
| RT Ponting* | c †Boucher b Botha | 46 | 71 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 85.18 | |
| MJ Clarke | c Amla b JA Morkel | 19 | 39 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| DJ Hussey | b JA Morkel | 52 | 63 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 104.00 | |
| CL White | b Botha | 21 | 31 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| BJ Haddin† | run out (JA Morkel) | 19 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 158.33 | |
| JR Hopes | c van Jaarsveld b M Morkel | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| NW Bracken | not out | 12 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 150.00 | |
| BW Hilfenhaus | not out | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 3, w 9) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 271 | (5.42 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SW Tait |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 10 | 2 | 49 | 1 | 4.90 | (2w) | ||
| JA Morkel | 9 | 0 | 58 | 2 | 6.44 | |||
| JH Kallis | 10 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| M Morkel | 10 | 0 | 68 | 2 | 6.80 | (2w) | ||
| J Botha | 10 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 5.00 | (1w) | ||
| JP Duminy | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 |
| South Africa innings (target: 272 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| HH Gibbs | b Hilfenhaus | 22 | 32 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 78.57 | |
| HM Amla | b Tait | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| JH Kallis | b Clarke | 41 | 70 | 49 | 4 | 0 | 83.67 | |
| JP Duminy | c White b Bracken | 71 | 131 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 76.34 | |
| ND McKenzie | c Ponting b Hilfenhaus | 63 | 105 | 80 | 6 | 0 | 78.75 | |
| MV Boucher† | b Tait | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| VB van Jaarsveld | run out (Ponting) | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| JA Morkel | not out | 40 | 38 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 222.22 | |
| J Botha* | not out | 12 | 33 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 10, w 8) | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 49.3 overs) | 272 | (5.49 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DW Steyn, M Morkel |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Amla, 1.2 ov), 2-36 (Gibbs, 7.4 ov), 3-90 (Kallis, 18.3 ov), 4-213 (Duminy, 40.6 ov), 5-215 (Boucher, 41.3 ov), 6-219 (van Jaarsveld, 42.5 ov), 7-221 (McKenzie, 43.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| NW Bracken | 10 | 2 | 49 | 1 | 4.90 | |||
| SW Tait | 10 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 4.30 | (3w) | ||
| BW Hilfenhaus | 9.3 | 1 | 55 | 2 | 5.78 | (3w) | ||
| JR Hopes | 10 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 5.10 | |||
| DJ Hussey | 5 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 7.00 | |||
| MJ Clarke | 5 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 5.80 | (2w) |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series South Africa led the 5-match series 1-0 |
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ODI debut
VB van Jaarsveld
(South Africa) Player of the match JA Morkel (South Africa) |
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Umpires
IJ Gould (England) and BNJ Oxenford TV umpire RJ Tucker Match referee RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire AP Ward |
| Match notes |
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