South Africa v Australia (1186)

a10410 o1186	South Africa v Australia
	Australia in South Africa 1996/97 (1st ODI)
Venue	Buffalo Park, East London on 29th March 1997 (50-over match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	South Africa won the toss and decided to field
Result	South Africa won by 6 wickets
Umpires	CJ Mitchley, DL Orchard
Third umpire	WA Diedricks
Referee	R Subba Row
Scorers	R Postman (South Africa), MK Walsh (Australia)
Man of the Match	DJ Cullinan

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Australia innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s *MA Taylor c Rhodes b Pollock 7 24 29 1 - MJ Di Venuto c Cullinan b Kallis 23 14 16 1 - SG Law c Kallis b Symcox 50 68 92 6 - SR Waugh run out (Gibbs->Richardson) 50 61 85 4 - GS Blewett run out (Cronje) 14 23 29 - - MG Bevan not out 51 60 95 3 1 +AC Gilchrist run out (Rhodes) 1 2 10 - - SK Warne c Cullinan b Donald 4 5 6 - - PR Reiffel b Klusener 1 4 8 - - JN Gillespie c Cullinan b Klusener 0 1 1 - - AC Dale not out 15 38 42 - - Extras (1 lb, 6 w) 7 Total (9 wickets, innings closed, 211 minutes, 50 overs) 223 Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Di Venuto), 2-32 (Taylor), 3-129 (Law), 4-134 (Waugh), 5-163 (Blewett), 6-169 (Gilchrist), 7-176 (Warne), 8-178 (Reiffel), 9-178 (Gillespie) South Africa bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls Pollock 10 1 36 1 - - Kallis 8 0 42 1 2 - Donald 10 0 37 1 - - Klusener 6 1 29 2 4 - Symcox 10 0 53 1 - - Cronje 6 0 25 0 - - South Africa innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s AM Bacher c Warne b Reiffel 27 39 45 4 - HH Gibbs c Gilchrist b Dale 10 19 29 2 - JH Kallis st Gilchrist b Warne 63 76 120 4 - L Klusener b Warne 0 4 8 - - DJ Cullinan not out 85 116 136 9 - JN Rhodes not out 24 29 40 2 - *WJ Cronje did not bat SM Pollock did not bat +DJ Richardson did not bat PL Symcox did not bat AA Donald did not bat Extras (4 b, 7 lb, 2 nb, 5 w) 18 Total (4 wickets, 191 minutes, 47 overs) 227 Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Gibbs), 2-48 (Bacher), 3-50 (Klusener), 4-172 (Kallis) Australia bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls Reiffel 10 1 44 1 1 2 Dale 10 0 55 1 - - Warne 10 0 36 2 3 - Gillespie 7 0 36 0 - - Bevan 10 0 45 0 1 -

Notes
--> MJ Di Venuto made his debut in ODIs
--> MG Bevan passed 1500 runs in ODIs when he reached 31
--> MG Bevan passed 5000 runs in ListA Matches when he reached 37
--> AC Dale made his debut in ODIs
--> AM Bacher passed his previous highest ODIs score of 14
--> JH Kallis passed 500 runs in ODIs when he reached 37

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12th Men: DN Crookes (South Africa) and AJ Bichel (Australia)
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