Australia vs South Africa Cricket Series 2008-09
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Australia vs South Africa Cricket Series 2008-09
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Cricket Matches Schedule
- Sat 13 - Sun 14, Dec 2008: Western Australia v South Africans at Perth
- Wed 17 - Sun 21, Dec 2008: 1st Test - Australia v South Africa at Perth
- Fri 26 - Tue 30, Dec 2008: 2nd Test - Australia v South Africa at Melbourne
- Sat 3 - Wed 7, Jan 2009: 3rd Test - Australia v South Africa at Sydney
- Sun 11, Jan 2009 (D/N): 1st Twenty20 - Australia v South Africa Melbourne
- Tue 13, Jan 2009 (D/N): 2nd Twenty20 - Australia v South Africa at Brisbane
- Fri 16, Jan 2009 (D/N): 1st ODI - Australia v South Africa at Melbourne
- Sun 18, Jan 2009: 2nd ODI - Australia v South Africa at Hobart
- Fri 23, Jan 2009 (D/N): 3rd ODI - Australia v South Africa at Sydney
- Mon 26, Jan 2009 (D/N): 4th ODI - Australia v South Africa at Adelaide Oval
- Fri 30, Jan 2009 (D/N): 5th ODI - Australia v South Africa at Perth
Australia vs South Africa Cricket Series 2008-09
Fifth ODI at Perth
AUS v SA, 5th ODI, Perth: South Africa beat Australia by 39 runs (SA 4:1)
Jan 30, 2009
South Africa's near-perfect tour began with a Test win in Perth and fittingly it finished with a 4-1 one-day triumph at the same venue as Australia conceded the No 1 ranking to Johan Botha's men.
JP Duminy, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers, all of whom contributed to the Test successes, finished the trip strongly and the debutant Lonwabo Tsotsobe picked up four wickets to give the tourists one more happy story to recount on the flight home. South Africa had waited all series for the chance to bat first and when they did, they set the largest target of the five games thanks to Amla, De Villiers and Duminy.
Australia knew that chasing 289 was going to be tough and when they stumbled to 53 for four, Ricky Ponting might have been ready to update his assessment that Monday's loss in Adelaide was their worst performance of the summer. But in a reverse of Australia's trend throughout the series, the middle and lower orders outshone their colleagues at the top. Michael Hussey's 78 gave them the subtlest of sniffs and David Hussey and Brad Haddin made handy contributions but, like an Australian Tour de France cyclist, the uphill effort was simply too arduous.
Their requirement of 164 from 20 overs became 100 from 10 and, regardless of how clean Haddin could strike the ball, it was all too much.
Amla had promised so much throughout the tour but until his unbeaten 80 in Adelaide had struggled to build on his promising starts. His 97 was the closest thing to a century in this series and he did it in a typically calm manner, striking 52 singles and not bothering with a boundary for 26 overs as he and De Villiers picked off easy ones and twos through the middle overs.
There had been a couple of early cheers for Amla, who had guided Ben Hilfenhaus over third man for six, but once they fell to 58 for two he adopted the more conservative approach. His 118-run partnership with De Villiers, who was equally composed in his 60, set the platform for Duminy to go nuts in the final overs.
AUS v SA, 5th ODI, Perth: South Africa 288-6 (50.0 overs) beat Australia 249 (49.0 overs) by 39 runs
Australia vs South Africa Cricket Series 2008-09
Fifth ODI at Perth
Scorecard
South Africa won the toss and decided to bat
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288 for 6 (50.0 overs)
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249 all out (49.0 overs)
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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| Amla | c Haddin | b Hopes | 97 |
117 | 6 | 1 |
| Gibbs | c Hopes | b Hilfenhaus | 7 |
15 | 0 | 0 |
| McKenzie | c Haddin | b Hopes | 10 |
28 | 1 | 0 |
| de Villiers | c Warner | b Hopes | 60 |
71 | 4 | 0 |
| Duminy | not out | 60 |
42 | 3 | 3 | |
| A Morkel | b Johnson | 14 |
12 | 2 | 0 | |
| van Jaarsveld | c D Hussey | b Hilfenhaus | 5 |
8 | 0 | 0 |
| Botha | not out | 14 |
7 | 2 | 0 | |
| Extras | 12w 9lb | 21 | ||||
| Total | for 6 | 288 | (50.0 ovs) | |||
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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| Marsh | c Amla | b Tsotsobe | 5 |
11 | 1 | 0 |
| Warner | run out | 22 |
29 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ponting | c de Villiers | b Tsotsobe | 12 |
20 | 2 | 0 |
| Clarke | b M Morkel | 0 |
4 | 0 | 0 | |
| M Hussey | b Tsotsobe | 78 |
96 | 5 | 1 | |
| D Hussey | c Botha | b Duminy | 32 |
51 | 1 | 0 |
| Haddin | c Tsotsobe | b Parnell | 63 |
50 | 5 | 1 |
| Hopes | b Botha | 11 |
14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Johnson | c and b | Tsotsobe | 5 |
9 | 0 | 0 |
| Bracken | c sub | b M Morkel | 5 |
8 | 0 | 0 |
| Hilfenhaus | not out | 1 |
3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extras | 1nb 8w 1b 5lb | 15 | ||||
| Total | all out | 249 | (49.0 ovs) | |||
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Umpires: I J Gould, B N J Oxenford
Australia: Marsh, Warner, Ponting (Captain), Clarke, M Hussey, D Hussey, Haddin (Wicket Keeper), Hopes, Johnson, Hilfenhaus, Bracken
South Africa: Gibbs, Amla, de Villiers (Wicket Keeper), Duminy, McKenzie, van Jaarsveld, A Morkel, Botha (Captain), M Morkel, Parnell, Tsotsobe