Sunday witnessed the greatest ever one day match ever played between SA and Australia at the Wanderers,Johanessberg. After winning the toss Australia elected to bat first.They had a great start with wicket-keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist scoring a quickfire 55 of jus 44 balls before getting out to Roger Telemachus.Then captain Ricky Ponting continued his good form scoring a blitzkreig 164 in just 105 balls.A straight six from Symonds took his team total past 400 for the first time in the history of one day cricket beating Sri Lanka's 10 year record of 398/6 against Kenya in 19996 world cup.At the end of 50 overs Australia scored 434/4.South Africa started their reply with Greame Smith and Boeta Dippenaar.However they had a bad start losing Dippenaar to Bracken when the score was just 3.This brought in Herschelle Gibbs.Bpth Gibbs and Smith played extremely well with the captain scoring 90 of just 55 balls before getting out to Clarke.However Gibbs along with A.B.DeVillers steadied the South African innings by scoring a quickfire century of just 79 balls.The latter then got out when the score was 284.This started SA's slide losin 3 wickets for less than 60 runs.But a gritty innings from Mark Boucher saw the Proteas pull off a historic win scoring 50* off just 43 balls.
One of the greatest one day match.Isn't it????
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