Benson & Hedges World Series - 1st match
South Africa won by 7 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 860 | 1993/94 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 9 December 1993 - day/night (50-over match)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor | b Cronje | 30 | 91 | 58 | 1 | 0 | 51.72 | |
| MJ Slater | c & b Symcox | 73 | 85 | 69 | 8 | 1 | 105.79 | |
| DC Boon | run out (Rhodes) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| ME Waugh | c Symcox b Cronje | 8 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| SR Waugh | run out (Rhodes) | 33 | 67 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 61.11 | |
| AR Border* | b Snell | 11 | 30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 52.38 | |
| IA Healy† | not out | 21 | 54 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 56.75 | |
| SK Warne | run out (Wessels) | 3 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| PR Reiffel | lbw b de Villiers | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CJ McDermott | c †Richardson b de Villiers | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| GD McGrath | b de Villiers | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 2) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 45.5 overs; 193 mins) | 189 | (4.12 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-105 (Slater), 2-106 (Boon), 3-106 (Taylor), 4-119 (ME Waugh), 5-151 (Border), 6-166 (SR Waugh), 7-180 (Warne), 8-181 (Reiffel), 9-189 (McDermott), 10-189 (McGrath) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 10 | 1 | 32 | 0 | 3.20 | |||
| PS de Villiers | 7.5 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 3.82 | |||
| RP Snell | 8 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 5.37 | (2w) | ||
| WJ Cronje | 10 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 4.20 | |||
| PL Symcox | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 |
| South Africa innings (target: 190 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Hudson | c Taylor b McDermott | 4 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| KC Wessels* | b McDermott | 70 | 158 | 118 | 4 | 0 | 59.32 | |
| WJ Cronje | not out | 91 | 181 | 147 | 5 | 0 | 61.90 | |
| DJ Cullinan | b Warne | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JN Rhodes | not out | 20 | 28 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 1, nb 2) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 48.4 overs) | 190 | (3.90 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DJ Callaghan, DJ Richardson†, RP Snell, PL Symcox, AA Donald, PS de Villiers |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Hudson), 2-144 (Wessels), 3-149 (Cullinan) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 10 | 1 | 31 | 2 | 3.10 | (1nb) | ||
| GD McGrath | 8.4 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 3.23 | |||
| PR Reiffel | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 4.75 | |||
| SR Waugh | 10 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 3.70 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| AR Border | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5.00 | |||
| SK Warne | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 4.30 | |||
| ME Waugh | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Points South Africa 2, Australia 0 |
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ODI debuts
GD McGrath and
MJ Slater
(Australia) Player of the match WJ Cronje (South Africa) |
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Umpires
TA Prue and WP Sheahan TV umpire LJ King Match referee S Venkataraghavan (India) |
| Match notes |
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