South Africa and Australia battled each other in the 3rd and last 5-Day Test at Newlands, Cape Town, from 10:30 SA Time on Saturday 1 March to Wednesday 5 March.
South Africa and Australia were 1 / 1 in the series, after South Africa convincingly beat Australia in the 2nd Test at St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth.
The score cards was updated at regular intervals here on Rugby-Talk.
Australia took control of the match from the first ball of the test, declaring their innings twice, whilst South Africa fell cheaply in the first innings and almost batted for a day and a half in the second innings.
Australia knocked the last wicket over, that of Morne Morkel, with only 27 balls left in the Test.
Australia win by 245 runs and win the Test Series 2 / 1.
Australia:
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First Innings – 494 / 7 Declared (127.4 Overs)
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Second Innings – 303 / 5 Declared (58 Overs)
South Africa:
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First Innings – 287 All Out (82.5 Overs)
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Second Innings – 265 All Out (134.3 Overs)
Australia won by 245 runs
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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CJL Rogers | c Smith b Steyn | 25 | 57 | 41 | 4 | 0 | 60.97 |
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DA Warner | c †de Villiers b Duminy | 135 | 262 | 152 | 12 | 1 | 88.81 |
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AJ Doolan | c Steyn b Philander | 20 | 83 | 66 | 3 | 0 | 30.30 |
| MJ Clarke* | not out | 161 | 430 | 301 | 17 | 0 | 53.48 | |
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SPD Smith | b Elgar | 84 | 214 | 155 | 9 | 3 | 54.19 |
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SR Watson | c Amla b Duminy | 40 | 50 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 125.00 |
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BJ Haddin† | c Amla b Duminy | 13 | 33 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 61.90 |
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MG Johnson | c †de Villiers b Duminy | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| RJ Harris | not out | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| Extras | (w 6, nb 6) | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets dec; 127.4 overs; 572 mins) | 494 | (3.86 runs per over) | |||||
Did not batJL Pattinson, NM Lyon
Fall of wickets 1-65 (Rogers, 13.3 ov), 2-138 (Doolan, 31.3 ov), 3-217 (Warner, 57.4 ov), 4-401 (Smith, 107.5 ov), 5-456 (Watson, 118.4 ov), 6-489 (Haddin, 126.5 ov), 7-489 (Johnson, 126.6 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DW Steyn | 10.1 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 4.32 | |
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VD Philander | 26.4 | 2 | 116 | 1 | 4.35 | (1nb) |
| M Morkel | 23.5 | 2 | 94 | 0 | 3.94 | (4nb, 2w) | |
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JP Duminy | 17 | 0 | 73 | 4 | 4.29 | |
| KJ Abbott | 28 | 11 | 68 | 0 | 2.42 | (1nb) | |
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D Elgar | 22 | 0 | 99 | 1 | 4.50 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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GC Smith* | c †Haddin b Harris | 5 | 24 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 26.31 |
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AN Petersen | c †Haddin b Johnson | 53 | 106 | 62 | 8 | 0 | 85.48 |
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D Elgar | c †Haddin b Pattinson | 11 | 35 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 55.00 |
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HM Amla | b Harris | 38 | 76 | 52 | 6 | 0 | 73.07 |
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AB de Villiers† | c Clarke b Johnson | 14 | 69 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 37.83 |
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F du Plessis | c Warner b Johnson | 67 | 171 | 135 | 6 | 0 | 49.62 |
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JP Duminy | c †Haddin b Harris | 4 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| VD Philander | not out | 37 | 194 | 107 | 1 | 0 | 34.57 | |
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KJ Abbott | b Watson | 3 | 29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 12.00 |
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DW Steyn | c Watson b Johnson | 28 | 38 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 103.70 |
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M Morkel | c Watson b Pattinson | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 77.77 |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 3, w 6, nb 3) | 20 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 82.5 overs; 389 mins) | 287 | (3.46 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets 1-7 (Smith, 4.5 ov), 2-42 (Elgar, 11.4 ov), 3-95 (Petersen, 21.2 ov), 4-121 (Amla, 28.1 ov), 5-133 (de Villiers, 35.4 ov), 6-146 (Duminy, 38.6 ov), 7-241 (du Plessis, 67.2 ov), 8-249 (Abbott, 73.6 ov), 9-279 (Steyn, 81.3 ov), 10-287 (Morkel, 82.5 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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RJ Harris | 22 | 9 | 63 | 3 | 2.86 | (1nb) |
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MG Johnson | 19 | 5 | 42 | 4 | 2.21 | |
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JL Pattinson | 18.5 | 4 | 77 | 2 | 4.08 | (2nb, 2w) |
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SR Watson | 9 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 3.77 | |
| NM Lyon | 12 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 4.41 | ||
| SPD Smith | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.50 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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CJL Rogers | run out (Steyn) | 39 | 92 | 67 | 6 | 0 | 58.20 |
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DA Warner | c †de Villiers b Abbott | 145 | 243 | 156 | 13 | 4 | 92.94 |
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AJ Doolan | c Abbott b Morkel | 37 | 91 | 87 | 5 | 0 | 42.52 |
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SR Watson | c Duminy b Abbott | 25 | 31 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 147.05 |
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MJ Clarke* | c sub (Q de Kock) b Abbott | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| SPD Smith | not out | 36 | 29 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 180.00 | |
| BJ Haddin† | not out | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 3, lb 12, nb 3) | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets dec; 58 overs; 252 mins) | 303 | (5.22 runs per over) | |||||
Did not batMG Johnson, RJ Harris, JL Pattinson, NM Lyon
Fall of wickets 1-123 (Rogers, 20.2 ov), 2-188 (Doolan, 44.6 ov), 3-245 (Watson, 50.6 ov), 4-257 (Clarke, 52.2 ov), 5-290 (Warner, 56.3 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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M Morkel | 13 | 1 | 67 | 1 | 5.15 | (1nb) |
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KJ Abbott | 14 | 2 | 61 | 3 | 4.35 | |
| VD Philander | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 7.00 | (2nb) | |
| JP Duminy | 19 | 3 | 76 | 0 | 4.00 | ||
| DW Steyn | 3 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 8.00 | ||
| D Elgar | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 6.00 |
| South Africa 2nd innings (target: 511 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AN Petersen | lbw b Harris | 9 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 81.81 |
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GC Smith* | c Doolan b Johnson | 3 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
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D Elgar | b Johnson | 0 | 19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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HM Amla | lbw b Pattinson | 41 | 148 | 109 | 4 | 0 | 37.61 |
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AB de Villiers† | c †Haddin b Harris | 43 | 326 | 228 | 6 | 0 | 18.85 |
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KJ Abbott | b Pattinson | 7 | 114 | 89 | 1 | 0 | 7.86 |
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F du Plessis | lbw b Smith | 47 | 157 | 109 | 5 | 0 | 43.11 |
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JP Duminy | c Lyon b Johnson | 43 | 159 | 99 | 8 | 0 | 43.43 |
| VD Philander | not out | 51 | 155 | 105 | 6 | 1 | 48.57 | |
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DW Steyn | b Harris | 1 | 75 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 2.27 |
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M Morkel | b Harris | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 5, w 2, nb 5) | 20 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 134.3 overs; 611 mins) | 265 | (1.97 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets 1-12 (Petersen, 2.1 ov), 2-12 (Smith, 3.1 ov), 3-15 (Elgar, 5.6 ov), 4-68 (Amla, 36.4 ov), 5-95 (Abbott, 66.1 ov), 6-136 (de Villiers, 84.2 ov), 7-173 (du Plessis, 102.1 ov), 8-246 (Duminy, 119.1 ov), 9-265 (Steyn, 134.1 ov), 10-265 (Morkel, 134.3 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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RJ Harris | 24.3 | 15 | 32 | 4 | 1.30 | |
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MG Johnson | 34 | 11 | 92 | 3 | 2.70 | |
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JL Pattinson | 27 | 10 | 62 | 2 | 2.29 | (3nb, 2w) |
| NM Lyon | 22 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 0.45 | ||
| SR Watson | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0.66 | (1nb) | |
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SPD Smith | 13 | 3 | 43 | 1 | 3.30 | (1nb) |
| MJ Clarke | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1.40 |
Match details
Series – Australia won the 3-match series 2-1
TV umpire – RK Illingworth (England)
Match referee – RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire – AT Holdstock
- – day 1 – Australia 1st innings 331/3 (MJ Clarke 92*, SPD Smith 50*, 88 ov)
- – day 2 – Australia 1st innings 494/7d (MJ Clarke 161*, RJ Harris 4*, 127.4 ov)
- – day 3 – Australia 2nd innings 27/0 (CJL Rogers 1*, DA Warner 25*, 6 ov)
- – day 4 – South Africa 2nd innings 71/4 (AB de Villiers 16*, KJ Abbott 1*, 41 ov)
Macbull, all this talk of mutual respect is rubbish.
They hate each others guts, Davy Warner will not be braiing at Fafs joint tonight.
Eish, dis nie lekker om te sien hoe kry die Ozzmob lekker om die reeks te wen nie.
Weet nie watter plan ons gaan maak nie, maar dit is ‘n skande dat ons vir so lank nie die Aussies in ons eie backyard kan klop nie.
Wie gaan die helde wees wat dit verander ?
@ Ben:
Ek is bevrees ons gaan lank vat om te herbou, hopelik nie so lank as die Windies nie, hulle het nou nog nie reg gekom nie.
GBS, great site but if you don’t understand the local dialect your readership will be pretty narrow.
394 @ superBul:
Re-building is an attitude more than it is recovering from losing a Kallis and a Graeme Smith….
One could see the Australians were aggressive and all gee’ed up… they wanted to win and was prepared to do what was necessary to achieve the goal.
In Domingo I do not see a chap who can make that a habbit at the Proteas.
One can say whatever one wants about Biff Smith… about how grand his batting average was ect, ect… but the fact is he ALWAYS had a serious flaw early on in his batting innings, seemingly getting better only once he got “IN”, where he then stood tall and made big scores. However, how many times did he perish early, by edging it to slips or cutting it onto his stumps… a real fatal flaw.
I am not sad to see Biff depart… never got to like the chap, notwithstanding how he was revered by all and sundry.
To me his batting was flawed and his personality too congenial and soft-cockish!
What to do, who to pick… who to coach? Well I don’t have those answers.
395 @ NZINCHINA:
China… we have 11 Official Languages in SA… and I will not dictate to people that they may only comment in English.
South Africa is a “live and let live” country… or at least that is what we are aspiring to and what Rugby-Talk embodies.
Mostly though, when we converse in Afrikaans and someone who only understands English pitches up, we always swing over to English to accomodate (unless that person is out to get our goat with his comments).
My home Language is NOT ENGLISH, yet you will find that 95% of Articles on R-T aew in English, my 2nd Language.
When you address me and MOST here, we will accomodate and converse with you in English.
South Africa is unique in the world and we quite like that diversity… whilst still being proud of our respective herritages.
Bear with us when we speak Afrikaans, it is a reality of our society in South Africa.
@ NZINCHINA:
I take note and i will always try to talk with you. We are true Rugby and Cricket lovers and i love to practice my English. I am certainly not good with the language and in every sentence i have to correct quite a few words.
Glad to have you here.
Well done to the Aussies… They were the better team and outplayed the Proteas for at least 4 of the 5 days.
At least the Proteas fought till the end..so kudo’s for them for the effort… pity that they could not hold out for Biff in his last test.
Hard times ahead…there is no-one on the horizon to replace Kallis and Biff…
@ grootblousmile:
China’s not got much to say in any language.
@ robzim:
Indeed.
I see a slide down the rankings ahead.
Now to see whether Bafana Bafana can make up for this 🙂
400 @ gunther:
Hahaha…
402 @ robzim:
Flok, when are they playing and who will they be playing?
@ grootblousmile:
They are playing Brazil at the moment in Jhb in a friendly.
Brazil 1-0 after 30 minutes.
405 @ robzim:
Oh, OK.. shit it’s 2 / 0 now!
Did Brazil bring a strong side over?
@NZinC
你好嗎？RT 是一個很酷的網站，Keo 逗留井以來最
407 @ nortierd:
Yip, R-T is a cool site…. hehehe!
grootblousmile wrote:
Their strongest possible line up
It’s their last game before their WC squad gets picked. And the last chance they have against African opposition before the 1st round
@ grootblousmile:
Yes… its a full strenght team… they are using it as preparation for the World Cup.
The bloke who scored just now (Neymar) is for example one of the top players for Barcelona FC.
410 @ robzim:
I suppose then Bafana Bafana is lucky to be only 2 goals down at the moment.
409 @ nortierd:
我不是足球的忠實粉絲
grootblousmile wrote:
Full strength Spain or Germany who were really serious would probably be further ahead.
Kahuna, the better goalie not playing, but Brazil is more similar to the African sides than the more structured European sides, they are like the AB’s or NZ franchises, thrill the crowd with total fancy pants moves and dribbles etc., while ze Germans Tommy, more like a well oiled machine. Germany always my favorite WC team, ever since Beckenbauer.
Ha ha, Khune, not Kuana
Spell check thinks he is big in Hawaii
@ grootblousmile:
Brazil is ranked number 9 in the world and South Africa probably about 70th so there is a huge difference in quality.
It’s not always so straight forward though as the players in the top teams often just go through the motions when they play against lesser teams in friendlies due to the risks on injuries.
415 @ robzim:
Yeah, I agree, there is no way Brazil will be super-amped to beat Bafana Bafana… it’s like a practice match for them, holding the ball, hogging the ball and just getting their players to gel.
3 / Zip
Nee jinne mense, ek kan dit nie geniet om te kyk hoe die blinde skool se se ouens opgevoeter word deur die groot outjies nie.
Dis ook nie my sport nie… ek gaan maar eerder Dynamo Magician Impossible kyk
Oh well .. 5-0 to Brazil… and despite what the SA commentators are saying this is an ordinary Brazil team only playing at about 3/4’s pace.
SA’a soccer is rock bottom at moment… Ingesmund is probably on his way out… who is next??
419 @ robzim:
Ingesund is not the problem… SA soccer’s problems lie much deeper and it’s become ingrained now in the SA Soccer’s whole being.
In 1996 we were still Arfican Champs…. something like No 23 in the world…. now we’re sitting beyond No 70 (I heard we are at No 86 in world terms). The slip has been fast and exponential.
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