- Test no. 1242 | 1993/94 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 26,27,28,29,30 December 1993 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor | b Symcox | 170 | 495 | 349 | 12 | 0 | 48.71 | |
| MJ Slater | c Kirsten b Donald | 32 | 104 | 89 | 1 | 0 | 35.95 | |
| SK Warne | lbw b de Villiers | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DC Boon | b Matthews | 25 | 114 | 79 | 2 | 0 | 31.64 | |
| ME Waugh | lbw b Matthews | 84 | 211 | 144 | 5 | 1 | 58.33 | |
| AR Border* | c †Richardson b Matthews | 2 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| DR Martyn | b Symcox | 8 | 23 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 47.05 | |
| IA Healy† | not out | 7 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 7, nb 5) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets dec; 115.5 overs; 495 mins) | 342 | (2.95 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat PR Reiffel, TBA May, CJ McDermott |
| Fall of wickets1-57 (Slater), 2-58 (Warne), 3-127 (Boon), 4-296 (Waugh), 5-300 (Border), 6-327 (Martyn), 7-342 (Taylor) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 30 | 4 | 108 | 1 | 3.60 | (3nb) | ||
| PS de Villiers | 32 | 6 | 83 | 1 | 2.59 | (2nb) | ||
| CR Matthews | 24 | 5 | 68 | 3 | 2.83 | |||
| WJ Cronje | 13 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 1.92 | |||
| PL Symcox | 16.5 | 3 | 49 | 2 | 2.91 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Hudson | retired hurt | 64 | 201 | 245 | 3 | 0 | 26.12 | |
| G Kirsten | c Taylor b Waugh | 16 | 59 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 17.97 | |
| WJ Cronje | c Boon b Warne | 71 | 141 | 168 | 5 | 0 | 42.26 | |
| DJ Cullinan | c Border b McDermott | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JN Rhodes | not out | 35 | 124 | 193 | 1 | 0 | 18.13 | |
| KC Wessels* | not out | 63 | 172 | 189 | 2 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, nb 7) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 115 overs; 349 mins) | 258 | (2.24 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DJ Richardson†, PL Symcox, CR Matthews, PS de Villiers, AA Donald |
| Fall of wickets1-49 (Kirsten), 1-152* (Hudson, retired not out), 2-157 (Cullinan), 3-157 (Cronje) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 23 | 5 | 60 | 1 | 2.60 | (6nb) | ||
| PR Reiffel | 21 | 4 | 55 | 0 | 2.61 | (1nb) | ||
| ME Waugh | 12 | 3 | 20 | 1 | 1.66 | |||
| TBA May | 28 | 7 | 58 | 0 | 2.07 | |||
| SK Warne | 31 | 8 | 63 | 1 | 2.03 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series 3-match series level 0-0 |
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Test debuts
PS de Villiers and
G Kirsten
(South Africa) Player of the match MA Taylor (Australia) |
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Umpires
DB Hair and TA Prue TV umpire LJ King Match referee JL Hendriks (West Indies) |
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Close of play 26 Dec day 1 - Australia 1st innings 71/2 (MA Taylor 30*, DC Boon 4*) 27 Dec day 2 - no play 28 Dec day 3 - Australia 1st innings 140/3 (MA Taylor 63*, ME Waugh 11*) 29 Dec day 4 - South Africa 1st innings 59/1 (AC Hudson 35*, WJ Cronje 3*) 30 Dec day 5 - South Africa 1st innings 258/3 (115 ov) - end of match |
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