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Australia vs South Africa Scorecard, 3rd T20I, South Africa vs Australia 2020
Result · Feb 26 2020, Wed - 09:30 PM (IST)
AUSTRALIA193/5
SOUTH AFRICA96
Australia won by 97 runs
CRR:6.19
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Match Info
| Series: | Australia in South Africa 2020 |
| Date: | Feb 26 2020, Wed - 09:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | South Africa |
| City: | Cape Town |
| Venue: | Newlands |
| Toss: | South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Quinton de Kock (c) (wk), Rassie van der Dussen, Faf du Plessis, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Pite van Biljon, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi |
| Australia Playing XI: | Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Steven Smith, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa |
- The winner of this game will clinch the series; indeed, three of the previous four bilateral men's T20I series between South Africa and Australia have been won by the visiting team of the series, including a 2-1 win to Australia on their last T20I excursion to South Africa in March 2016.
- South Africa will be on the hunt for back-to-back wins against Australia in men's T20Is for the first time since March 2009 after clinching a 12-run win in the second game of this series.
- South Africa tied Sri Lanka after 20 overs in their last men's T20I at Newlands, going on to win via Super Over; prior to that game, they had won only two of their previous eight games at the venue (L6).
- Australia will be looking to clinch four consecutive multi-game bilateral men's T20I series wins after having been winless in their four such series prior (D2, L2).
- Australia have a batting average of 68 against spin in men's T20Is since the beginning of 2019, the highest of any Test-playing nation in that time and almost double that of South Africa (35.7).
- David Warner (Australia) has scored 400 runs in men's T20Is between Australia and South Africa, the most of any player; though, South Africa's Quinton de Kock has a batting average of 34.6 in such fixtures, the second highest of any player (min. 10 innings).
- Tabraiz Shamsi (South Africa) has only conceded one boundary (a six) across his 48 legal deliveries in this series, the best rate by any bowler (2.1%).
- Steven Smith (Australia) has a dot ball rate of just 24.1% this series, the lowest of any batsman to have faced at least six deliveries; in fact, Smith has finished each of his last three T20I innings with a dot ball rate of 25% or below.
- Kagiso Rabada (South Africa), Lungi Ngidi (South Africa) and Kane Richardson (Australia) have each bowled 14.3% of their total deliveries on a short length this series - the most of any players (min. 5 overs); however, Richardson (2) is the only player to have taken multiple wickets via short balls.
- Aaron Finch (Australia) is 66 runs away from becoming the ninth player in men's T20I history to score 2,000 runs and just the second Australian.