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Australia vs South Africa Cricket Series 2008-09

Schedule

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)

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 Innings 288 for 6 (50.0 overs)

Australia Innings 249 all out (49.0 overs)

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
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)

Bowler O M R W Bracken 10.0 0 70 0 Hilfenhaus 10.0 0 43 2 Johnson 10.0 0 68 1 Hopes 9.0 1 44 3 Clarke 7.0 0 30 0 D Hussey 4.0 0 24 0

Fall of wicket   28 Gibbs 58 McKenzie 176 de Villiers 196 Amla 212 A Morkel 256 van Jaarsveld

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
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)

Bowler O M R W M Morkel 10.0 0 45 2 Tsotsobe 9.0 1 50 4 Parnell 10.0 0 52 1 Botha 10.0 0 38 1 A Morkel 6.0 0 37 0 Duminy 4.0 0 21 1

Fall of wicket   10 Marsh 35 Ponting 35 Clarke 53 Warner 122 D Hussey 174 M Hussey 218 Hopes 237 Johnson 244 Haddin 249 Bracken

Umpires: I J Gould, B N J Oxenford
Australia: Marsh, Warner, Ponting (C), Clarke, M Hussey, D Hussey, Haddin (W), Hopes, Johnson, Hilfenhaus, Bracken
South Africa: Gibbs, Amla, de Villiers (W), Duminy, McKenzie, van Jaarsveld, A Morkel, Botha (C), M Morkel, Parnell, Tsotsobe