Australia in South Africa ODI Series - 5th ODI
South Africa won by 1 wicket (with 1 ball remaining)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c Hall b Telemachus | 55 | 68 | 44 | 9 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| SM Katich | c Telemachus b Ntini | 79 | 138 | 90 | 9 | 1 | 87.77 | |
| RT Ponting* | c Dippenaar b Telemachus | 164 | 154 | 105 | 13 | 9 | 156.19 | |
| MEK Hussey | c Ntini b Hall | 81 | 75 | 51 | 9 | 3 | 158.82 | |
| A Symonds | not out | 27 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 207.69 | |
| B Lee | not out | 9 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 128.57 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 5, nb 10) | 19 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 50 overs; 234 mins) | 434 | (8.68 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DR Martyn, MJ Clarke, NW Bracken, SR Clark, ML Lewis |
| Fall of wickets1-97 (Gilchrist, 15.2 ov), 2-216 (Katich, 30.3 ov), 3-374 (Hussey, 46.1 ov), 4-407 (Ponting, 47.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| M Ntini | 9 | 0 | 80 | 1 | 8.88 | (1w) | ||
| AJ Hall | 10 | 0 | 80 | 1 | 8.00 | (2nb) | ||
| JJ van der Wath | 10 | 0 | 76 | 0 | 7.60 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| R Telemachus | 10 | 1 | 87 | 2 | 8.70 | (7nb, 3w) | ||
| GC Smith | 4 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 7.25 | |||
| JH Kallis | 6 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 11.66 | |||
| JM Kemp | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 |
| South Africa innings (target: 435 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GC Smith* | c Hussey b Clarke | 90 | 100 | 55 | 13 | 2 | 163.63 | |
| HH Dippenaar | b Bracken | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| HH Gibbs | c Lee b Symonds | 175 | 142 | 111 | 21 | 7 | 157.65 | |
| AB de Villiers | c Clarke b Bracken | 14 | 43 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 70.00 | |
| JH Kallis | c & b Symonds | 20 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 95.23 | |
| MV Boucher† | not out | 50 | 79 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 116.27 | |
| JM Kemp | c Martyn b Bracken | 13 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 76.47 | |
| JJ van der Wath | c Ponting b Bracken | 35 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 194.44 | |
| R Telemachus | c Hussey b Bracken | 12 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| AJ Hall | c Clarke b Lee | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 175.00 | |
| M Ntini | not out | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 8, w 4, nb 4) | 20 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 49.5 overs; 228 mins) | 438 | (8.78 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 7.5 | 0 | 68 | 1 | 8.68 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| NW Bracken | 10 | 0 | 67 | 5 | 6.70 | |||
| SR Clark | 6 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 9.00 | |||
| ML Lewis | 10 | 0 | 113 | 0 | 11.30 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| A Symonds | 9 | 0 | 75 | 2 | 8.33 | |||
| MJ Clarke | 7 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 7.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series South Africa won the 5-match series 3-2 |
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Players of the match
HH Gibbs (South Africa) and RT Ponting (Australia) Player of the series SM Pollock (South Africa) |
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Umpires
Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and BG Jerling TV umpire KH Hurter Match referee BC Broad (England) |
| Match notes |
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Mar 12, 2006 Mark Boucher hits the winning runs © Getty Images |
Mar 12, 2006 Herschelle Gibbs lashes another boundary during his astonishing 175 © Getty Images |
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