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De Villiers disappointed at 'soft dismissals'

South Africa captain AB de Villiers has expressed his disappointment at the "soft dismissals" from his batsmen that let Australia back into the contest in the fourth match of the tri-series in St

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

DA Warner
DA Warner
109(120) 11x4 - 2x6
Control %90%
  • Productive Shot
  • cut shot
  • 30 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
5 5 13 14 24 8 13 27
F du Plessis
F du Plessis
63(76) 5x4 - 0x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 18 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
7 2 8 3 19 11 9 4

Best performances - Bowlers

MA Starc
MA Starc
O10
M0
R43
W3
Eco4.30
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
A Zampa
A Zampa
O10
M0
R52
W3
Eco5.20
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W

Match Details

Toss

Australia , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

13.00 start, First Session 13.00-16.30, Interval 16.30-17.15, Second Session 17.15-20.45

Match days

11 June 2016 - day/night match (50-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Australia 4, South Africa 0

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Deivarayan Muthu

8.58pm David Warner set it up with his first ODI century outside Australia, at Warner Park. Amla and the returning du Plessis led SA's chase with fluent half-centuries, before Hazlewood and Zampa triggered a collapse. Starc then burst through the opening and toyed with SA's notoriously long tail. From 210 for 3, they crashed to 252 all out.

Australia, though, had to suffer the anxiety of Warner leaving the field in the chase with a hurt index finger. The latest update is that he will be assessed over the next 24 hours.

Presentation:

AB de Villiers: We played good cricket for most of the day, but lost our way with the bat and cost us. I threw away a few runs in the field but it was a chaseable total. We just did not bat well enough. All the bowlers bowled well and it was the bat the cost us tonight. It is not too much we can do with such little time. A lot of our dismissals were soft tonight, including my own.

Steven Smith: I thought 290 was a pretty good total. I knew if we got stuck in, we could defend it. It is not easy when you have Mitchell Starc coming in and reversing the ball. Yeah, Zampa was good. He held his nerve and mixed it up. He has come a long way. Starc was quick, there wasn't much swing early on. Then he got reverse swing. Davey played beautifully and his partnership with Usman set us up. I was just taking my time and hit a few out of the middle, having not contributed in the first couple of games.

David Warner, Man of the Match: I think it's all about riding the form. Abbott was hard to get away. Me and Uzzie talked about getting stuck in. The way the skipper finished was fantastic for us. He's got such fantastic wrists. So far, we have been playing well. Sometimes, I have wasted many opportunities in ODIs, in New Zealand, and to be honest I thew a few runs out there today as well. The first ten overs are crucial.

Andy: "So SAF threw it away. Sigh."

That is all we have for you from this game. Thanks for tuning in. Goodbye and good night/good morning.

47.4
W
Hazlewood to Rabada, 1 run, OUT, Australia win! back of a length and angled in, helped down to deep fine leg. They aim for the second. There is a direct hit at the non-striker's end from wicketkeeper Wade after collecting the throw from Khawaja in the deep. Redemption for the missed stumping? Tahir's bat is in the air as the bails get dislodged. All over

Imran Tahir run out 6 (16m 9b 0x4 0x6) SR: 66.66

Dale: "Starc now only needs 5 wickets in his next 4 ODI's to break the record for fastest 100 ODI wickets."

Keshav: "SA really need to work on their chasing in ODIs."

47.3
1
Hazlewood to Imran Tahir, 1 run, back of a length and outside off, Tahir cuts to sweeper cover
47.2
1lb
Hazlewood to Rabada, 1 leg bye, short and shading towards the leg stump, takes the pad and wanders to square leg
47.1
1
Hazlewood to Imran Tahir, 1 run, full and drifting into the pads, glanced to fine leg

Starc has finished. Here is Hazlewood

END OF OVER:
47 | 5 Runs | SA: 248/9 (41 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 5.27, RRR: 13.66)

  • Imran Tahir4 (7b)
  • Kagiso Rabada2 (4b)
  • Adam Zampa10-0-52-3
  • Mitchell Starc10-0-43-3
46.6
1lb
Zampa to Imran Tahir, 1 leg bye, dangled up on the leg stump, sweeps and misses, rolls off the pad towards short fine leg
46.5
1
Zampa to Rabada, 1 run, shorter and slapped down the ground

South Africa 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st35HM AmlaQ de Kock
2nd105HM AmlaF du Plessis
3rd37AB de VilliersF du Plessis
4th33JP DuminyAB de Villiers
5th11JP DuminyF Behardien
6th15JP DuminyWD Parnell
7th1WD ParnellKJ Abbott
8th2AM PhangisoWD Parnell
9th1AM PhangisoK Rabada
10th12Imran TahirK Rabada