Australia in South Africa ODI Series - 1st ODI
South Africa won by 6 wickets (with 18 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1186 | 1996/97 season
- Played at Buffalo Park, East London
- 29 March 1997 (50-over match)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor* | c Rhodes b Pollock | 7 | 29 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 29.16 | |
| MJ Di Venuto | c Cullinan b Kallis | 23 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 164.28 | |
| SG Law | c Kallis b Symcox | 50 | 92 | 68 | 6 | 0 | 73.52 | |
| SR Waugh | run out (Gibbs/†Richardson) | 50 | 85 | 61 | 4 | 0 | 81.96 | |
| GS Blewett | run out (Cronje) | 14 | 29 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 60.86 | |
| MG Bevan | not out | 51 | 95 | 60 | 3 | 1 | 85.00 | |
| AC Gilchrist† | run out (Rhodes) | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SK Warne | c Cullinan b Donald | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| PR Reiffel | b Klusener | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| JN Gillespie | c Cullinan b Klusener | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AC Dale | not out | 15 | 42 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 39.47 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 6) | 7 | ||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs; 211 mins) | 223 | (4.46 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-26 (Di Venuto), 2-32 (Taylor), 3-129 (Law), 4-134 (Waugh), 5-163 (Blewett), 6-169 (Gilchrist), 7-176 (Warne), 8-178 (Reiffel), 9-178 (Gillespie) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SM Pollock | 10 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 3.60 | |||
| JH Kallis | 8 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 5.25 | (2w) | ||
| AA Donald | 10 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 3.70 | |||
| L Klusener | 6 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 4.83 | (4w) | ||
| PL Symcox | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 5.30 | |||
| WJ Cronje | 6 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 4.16 |
| South Africa innings (target: 224 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AM Bacher | c Warne b Reiffel | 27 | 45 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 69.23 | |
| HH Gibbs | c †Gilchrist b Dale | 10 | 29 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 52.63 | |
| JH Kallis | st †Gilchrist b Warne | 63 | 120 | 76 | 4 | 0 | 82.89 | |
| L Klusener | b Warne | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DJ Cullinan | not out | 85 | 136 | 116 | 9 | 0 | 73.27 | |
| JN Rhodes | not out | 24 | 40 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 82.75 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 7, w 5, nb 2) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 47 overs; 191 mins) | 227 | (4.82 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat WJ Cronje*, SM Pollock, DJ Richardson†, PL Symcox, AA Donald |
| Fall of wickets1-31 (Gibbs), 2-48 (Bacher), 3-50 (Klusener), 4-172 (Kallis) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| PR Reiffel | 10 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 4.40 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| AC Dale | 10 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 5.50 | |||
| SK Warne | 10 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 3.60 | (3w) | ||
| JN Gillespie | 7 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 5.14 | |||
| MG Bevan | 10 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 4.50 | (1w) |
| Match details |
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Toss South Africa, who chose to field Series South Africa led the 7-match series 1-0 |
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ODI debuts
AC Dale and
MJ Di Venuto
(Australia) Player of the match DJ Cullinan (South Africa) |
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Umpires
CJ Mitchley and DL Orchard TV umpire WA Diedricks Match referee R Subba Row (England) |
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