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Australia vs South Africa Scorecard, Semi Final 2, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023
Result · Nov 16 2023, Thu - 02:00 PM (IST)
SOUTH AFRICA212
AUSTRALIA215/7
Australia won by 3 wickets
CRR:4.54
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | ODI World Cup |
| Date: | Nov 16 2023, Thu - 02:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Kolkata |
| Venue: | Eden Gardens |
| Toss: | South Africa won the toss and elected to bat. |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Aiden Markram, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Keshav Maharaj, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Gerald Coetzee, Tabraiz Shamsi |
| Australia Playing XI: | David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood |
- South Africa have won nine of their last 11 men’s ODIs against Australia including their last four in a row and a 134-run win when they met earlier at the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup; in fact, each of the last five games between Australia and South Africa has been won by the team batting first on the day.
- After winning only one of their first five games against Australia at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup (T1, L3), South Africa have now won two in a row against them at the tournament; however, they’ve never beaten them outside of the group stage, dramatically tying in the 1999 semi finals and losing in the 2007 semi finals.
- South Africa have won 15 of their 21 men’s ODIs in 2023 including their last two on the bounce; the last time they won more games in a single calendar year was in 2007 (W19, L10).
- South Africa are the only team to have reached the semi finals of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup multiple times but never progressed past the stage (T1 L3) while Australia have lost only one of their seven games at this stage (W6 T1).
- Australia have won their last seven men’s ODIs in succession which is their longest streak since a 10-game run from March to June in 2019; they have won the toss only twice across their last seven games in the format.
- South Africa have the highest batting average (45.1) and strike rate (176.5) at the death (last 10 overs) of any team at the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup; indeed, their average is more than twice as high as Australia (21.4).
- Rassie van Der Dussen (South Africa) has a batting strike rate of 60.7 from his 117 balls faced during the power play at the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, the second lowest rate of any player to have faced at least 70 balls during that period (Vikram Singh – 60.5 from 115 balls).
- Glenn Maxwell (Australia) has scored 46 runs via reverse sweeps in the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, the most of any player in the competition; though, South Africa duo Quinton De Kock (34) and Rassie Van Der Dussen (23) have hit the second a third most respectively.
- Tabraiz Shamsi (South Africa) is set to play his 50th ODI; he’s on an eight-game wicket taking streak and has taken 15 career wickets against Australia in the format, his second most against any team (16 against Sri Lanka).
- David Warner (Australia) has scored 1,491 runs at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and needs only nine more to become the fifth player to reach 1,500 runs scored at the tournament; he is also one run away from becoming the third player in tournament history to score 500+ runs in multiple editions (also Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar).