| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Slater | c Rhodes b Matthews | 20 | 78 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 35.71 | |
| MA Taylor | lbw b Donald | 1 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 | |
| DC Boon | c G Kirsten b Donald | 37 | 115 | 80 | 6 | 0 | 46.25 | |
| ME Waugh | c †Richardson b Donald | 43 | 141 | 101 | 5 | 0 | 42.57 | |
| AR Border* | c Rhodes b McMillan | 17 | 71 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 36.95 | |
| SR Waugh | c Wessels b Matthews | 64 | 229 | 150 | 9 | 0 | 42.66 | |
| IA Healy† | b Matthews | 55 | 122 | 104 | 8 | 0 | 52.88 | |
| PR Reiffel | lbw b de Villiers | 13 | 58 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 27.65 | |
| SK Warne | c Wessels b Matthews | 2 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| CJ McDermott | c Donald b de Villiers | 6 | 22 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| GD McGrath | not out | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 1, nb 9) | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 101.2 overs; 438 mins) | 269 | (2.65 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-7 (Taylor), 2-45 (Slater), 3-81 (Boon), 4-123 (Border), 5-123 (ME Waugh), 6-215 (Healy), 7-250 (Reiffel), 8-256 (Warne), 9-269 (SR Waugh), 10-269 (McDermott) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 18 | 1 | 71 | 3 | 3.94 | (8nb, 1w) | ||
| PS de Villiers | 24.2 | 5 | 55 | 2 | 2.26 | (1nb) | ||
| CR Matthews | 29 | 9 | 65 | 4 | 2.24 | |||
| BM McMillan | 19 | 5 | 56 | 1 | 2.94 | |||
| WJ Cronje | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1.60 | |||
| G Kirsten | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2.16 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Hudson | lbw b Reiffel | 65 | 174 | 133 | 11 | 0 | 48.87 | |
| G Kirsten | c †Healy b Reiffel | 41 | 216 | 161 | 3 | 0 | 25.46 | |
| WJ Cronje | c SR Waugh b Warne | 26 | 152 | 102 | 4 | 0 | 25.49 | |
| KC Wessels* | lbw b McDermott | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| PN Kirsten | lbw b SR Waugh | 49 | 288 | 197 | 4 | 0 | 24.87 | |
| JN Rhodes | lbw b Warne | 78 | 221 | 190 | 11 | 0 | 41.05 | |
| BM McMillan | c Slater b SR Waugh | 84 | 319 | 223 | 9 | 0 | 37.66 | |
| DJ Richardson† | c Reiffel b Warne | 59 | 255 | 205 | 7 | 0 | 28.78 | |
| CR Matthews | lbw b Warne | 1 | 24 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 5.55 | |
| PS de Villiers | lbw b SR Waugh | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AA Donald | not out | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 3, lb 10, nb 5) | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 205.2 overs; 832 mins) | 422 | (2.05 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-100 (Hudson), 2-117 (G Kirsten), 3-118 (Wessels), 4-155 (Cronje), 5-256 (PN Kirsten), 6-274 (Rhodes), 7-417 (Richardson), 8-422 (McMillan), 9-422 (Matthews), 10-422 (de Villiers) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 38 | 11 | 76 | 1 | 2.00 | (4nb) | ||
| PR Reiffel | 30 | 7 | 77 | 2 | 2.56 | |||
| GD McGrath | 41 | 11 | 78 | 0 | 1.90 | |||
| SK Warne | 55 | 20 | 92 | 4 | 1.67 | (1nb) | ||
| SR Waugh | 27.2 | 12 | 40 | 3 | 1.46 | |||
| ME Waugh | 11 | 3 | 38 | 0 | 3.45 | |||
| AR Border | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2.66 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Slater | lbw b Donald | 95 | 276 | 202 | 11 | 0 | 47.02 | |
| MA Taylor | lbw b de Villiers | 12 | 136 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 12.24 | |
| DC Boon | c PN Kirsten b Donald | 12 | 38 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 41.37 | |
| SK Warne | c McMillan b Donald | 12 | 42 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 38.70 | |
| ME Waugh | not out | 113 | 283 | 222 | 13 | 0 | 50.90 | |
| AR Border* | not out | 42 | 225 | 166 | 5 | 0 | 25.30 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 1, nb 4) | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 124 overs; 501 mins) | 297 | (2.39 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SR Waugh, IA Healy†, PR Reiffel, CJ McDermott, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-55 (Taylor), 2-81 (Boon), 3-109 (Warne), 4-157 (Slater) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 28 | 7 | 66 | 3 | 2.35 | (2nb) | ||
| PS de Villiers | 24 | 5 | 69 | 1 | 2.87 | (2nb) | ||
| BM McMillan | 22 | 6 | 53 | 0 | 2.40 | (1w) | ||
| CR Matthews | 28 | 12 | 56 | 0 | 2.00 | |||
| WJ Cronje | 18 | 5 | 40 | 0 | 2.22 | |||
| G Kirsten | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2.33 | |||
| JN Rhodes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss South Africa, who chose to field Series 3-match series drawn 1-1 |
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Player of the match
ME Waugh (Australia) Player of the series SR Waugh (Australia) |
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Umpires
Mahboob Shah (Pakistan) and CJ Mitchley TV umpire KE Liebenberg Match referee DB Carr (England) |
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Close of play 25 Mar day 1 - Australia 1st innings 241/6 (SR Waugh 50*, PR Reiffel 8*) 26 Mar day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 143/3 (WJ Cronje 16*, PN Kirsten 14*) 27 Mar day 3 - South Africa 1st innings 322/6 (BM McMillan 35*, DJ Richardson 16*) 28 Mar day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 89/2 (MJ Slater 56*, SK Warne 4*) 29 Mar day 5 - Australia 2nd innings 297/4 (124 ov) - end of match |
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