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South Africa vs Australia Scorecard, 2nd T20I, Australia vs South Africa 2025
Result · Aug 12 2025, Tue - 02:45 PM (IST)
SOUTH AFRICA218/7
AUSTRALIA165
South Africa won by 53 runs
CRR:9.34
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | South Africa in Australia 2025 |
| Date: | Aug 12 2025, Tue - 02:45 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Australia |
| City: | Darwin |
| Venue: | Marrara Stadium |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Australia Playing XI: | Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (c), Cameron Green, Tim David, Glenn Maxwell, Mitch Owen, Alex Carey (wk), Ben Dwarshuis, Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Aiden Markram (c), Ryan Rickelton (wk), Rassie van der Dussen, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Dewald Brevis, Tristan Stubbs, Corbin Bosch, Nqaba Peter, Kagiso Rabada, Kwena Maphaka, Lungi Ngidi |
- Australia have won their last six men’s T20Is against South Africa, the longest winning run by either team in the history of this fixture, despite winning the coin toss on the day in only two of those six matches; their last defeat against the Proteas in the format was a 12-run loss on 23 February 2020.
- Australia currently lead this multigame bilateral men’s T20I series against South Africa 1-0; a win in this match would seal their third consecutive series victory against all opponents (5-0 v West Indies in July 2025 and 3-0 v Pakistan in November 2024) – only from February 2019 to February 2020 (W4) have they recorded a longer winning run in such series.
- South Africa currently trail Australia in this multigame bilateral men’s T20I series 0-1; the last time the Proteas came back from a 0-1 deficit to win a series in the format was in July 2022 against England (2-1).
- Australia have won their last nine men’s T20Is; the last and only time they recorded a longer unbeaten run in the format was an 11-match span from February to May in 2010 (W10 T1).
- South Africa have recorded a batting false shot rate of 36% in men’s T20Is in 2025, the best of any Test-playing country this year; although, the Proteas’ batting dot ball rate (41%) is the third highest of any team ahead of only Zimbabwe (43.2%) and Pakistan (41.2%).
- Australia have taken exactly three wickets during the powerplay in each of their last three men’s T20I bowling innings, as many times as they had done so across their previous 15 innings in the format.
- Aiden Markram (27) is one away from surpassing Graeme Smith (27) for the outright second most appearances as captain of South Africa in men’s T20Is (Faf du Plessis – 37); he’s scored 500 runs as captain of the Proteas in the format without recording a 50+ score – only MS Dhoni (1,112 runs for India) and Clinton Rubagumya (788 runs for Rwanda) have scored more runs as captain without reaching a half-century in the format.
- Tim David (Australia) has scored 402 runs at an average of 80.4 across his last 12 T20 innings (x9 IPL & x3 T20I), including 83 against South Africa last time out; he will be aiming for 50+ scores in consecutive T20I innings for the first time for Australia and third overall (92* & 58 for Singapore in March 2020, 77 & 64* for Singapore from July to September in 2019).
- Nandre Burger (South Africa) has drawn a false shot on 60% of his 72 balls bowled in men’s T20Is in 2025, the second highest rate of any player (min. 30 balls bowled) from a Test playing country this year (Kyle Jamieson – 63% of 48 balls bowled for New Zealand).
- Josh Inglis (Australia) has made a strong connection on 36% of his 83 balls faced in men’s T20Is in 2025, the best rate of any player from a Test playing country this year (min. 10 balls faced); although, he’s finished on zero runs in three of his last four T20I innings in Australia (0*, 0, 27, 0).