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South Africa vs Australia Scorecard, 1st Test, Australia vs South Africa 2022/23
Result · Dec 17 2022, Sat - 05:50 AM (IST)
SOUTH AFRICA152, 99
AUSTRALIA218, 35/4
Australia won by 6 wickets
CRR:4.47
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | South Africa in Australia 2022/23 |
| Date: | Dec 17 2022, Sat - 05:50 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Australia |
| City: | Brisbane |
| Venue: | Brisbane Cricket Ground |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Australia Playing XI: | David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Dean Elgar (c), Sarel Erwee, Rassie van der Dussen, Temba Bavuma, Khaya Zondo, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi |
- South Africa have won five of their last seven men’s Tests (L2) against Australia including their last three straight; in fact, it’s South Africa’s longest winning streak against Australia since a span of five wins between February 1967 and March 1970.
- Australia have won eight of their last 12 men’s Tests (D3 L1) with their only loss in this span coming against Sri Lanka in July 2022 by an innings and 39 runs; Australia will be searching for three-straight Test wins for the first time since December 2021.
- Australia have lost only one of their last 33 men’s Test played at the Brisbane Cricket Ground (W25 D7); in fact, they are undefeated in their four Tests against South Africa at the venue (W2 D2).
- South Africa have won six of their nine men’s Tests in 2022, as many as they won throughout their 2018 campaign in which they played 10 games; in fact, the last time they won more than six games in a calendar year was in 2017 (W7 D2 L3).
- Australia’s bowling attack has an economy rate of 2.8 in men’s Tests in 2022; the best of any team in the format while South Africa (3.2) have the fifth best rate of any team.
- South Africa has a batting leave percentage of 19% in men’s Tests in 2022; the highest of any team in the format and seven percentage points higher than Australia (12%).
- Mitchell Starc (296) is four shy of becoming the seventh player to take 300 wickets in men’s Tests for Australia; though, the last time he took four or more wickets in a game Brisbane was against Pakistan in 2019 (7/125).
- Dean Elgar (4,971) needs 29 more runs to become just the eighth player to notch 5,000 Test runs for South Africa; Elgar has scored 30+ just twice in his last six innings (36, 1, 11, 12, 47, 26).
- Usman Khawaja (Australia) has scored 153 runs from pull shots in Tests in 2022, the third most of any player in the men’s format (Litton Das 162, Jonny Bairstow 154); Khawaja has scored those 153 runs from 69 pull shot attempts and has not been dismissed playing a pull shot this year.
- South African bowling duo Anrich Nortje and Kagiso Rabada have induced a false shot on 40% and 32% of their deliveries in men’s Tests in 2022; the best and second-best return respectively of any bowlers in the format (min. 2 games).