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Australia vs South Africa 5th ODI Highlights Perth

Watch cricket highlights from the Perth 5th and final ODI – SA vs Australia played on January 30, 2009.

Scoreline: SA: 288. Hashim Amla 97, JP Duminy 60 (42), AB de Villiers 60. Aus fall short: 249 all out. Brad Haddin 63, Mike Hussey 78.
South Africa win the series 4-1.

Watching South Africa set a target was quite interesting. For the initial part of their total, South Africa rebuilt through Amla and de Villiers, with both pulling out innovative strokes. Hashim Amla played a couple of Tendulkaresque shots (the over the slips shot he’d pulled out years back vs Alan Donald in South Africa) the patent to which has been handed down unsurprisingly to Virender Sehwag (the over the slip shot). Amla eventually fell short of a century – 97, while Duminy did what he did in the T20 games (Albie Morkel having been dismissed early).

You’d have to say that Australia appeared demoralized by the late Duminy assault – 98 runs came off the final 10 overs.

The Aussie chase never really kicked off, though when Ponting produced a couple of breathtaking drives, it appeared on. The Hussey brothers appeared to take the task of rebuilding the innings a bit to diligently and the result was a very late attempted chase through Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin.

Tsotsobe who had a few embarrassing moments with the bat on debut during the 1st T20 had a splendid game, having come in place of his idol Makhaya Ntini.

For the ranking-inclined, this win by South Africa has catapulted them to the No 1 position in ODI cricket. But they’d probably be happier at having pulled off another win despite the absence of Steyn, Kallis, Boucher and Ntini.

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5th ODI: Australia v South Africa at Perth, Jan 30 2009, Live Cricket Streaming

This is the final odi of this CB Series. Dead rubber match where South Africa already won the series. Kallis is rested in this match and Lonwabo Tsotsobe from South africai s playing. Wayne Parnell, 19, is making his ODI debut. South Africa have won the toss and chosen to bat.

South Africa: 1 Herschelle Gibbs, 2 Hashim Amla, 3 AB de Villiers (wk), 4 JP Duminy, 5 Neil McKenzie, 6 Vaughn van Jaarsveld, 7 Albie Morkel, 8 Morne Morkel, 9 Johan Botha (capt), 10 Wayne Parnell, 11 Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

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SA vs Australia 4th Adelaide One Day from the CB Series 2009.

Cricket Highlights: SA vs Australia 4th Adelaide One Day from the CB Series 2009.

Fore-play: Australia 222 all out (48 overs). Ricky Ponting 63. SA: 223 (38.1 overs). AB de Villiers 82, Hashim Amla 80. Herschelle Gibbs – a blistering 38.

So SA have wrapped up the series with a game in hand. While Ponting (albeit at least one reprieve) was skimming along beautifully, Australia had the game in relative control but it was all South Africa after that.

When Australia toured India recently, I kept waiting for those famous Gilchrist type lower order counter-attacking innings from Shane Watson and Cameron White, which never happened. Now that all of us have slowly understood that what Gilchrist and Symonds (to a certain extent) did isn’t easy to do, maybe Brad Haddin needs to as well.

Herschelle Gibbs looked different on the field today after his fantastic knock in the 3rd Sydney ODI – more secure and happy that he’s back to contributing to the team and game. And that carried on when he came out to bat, while tearing into Mitchell Johnson – the two have been at each other over the last couple of games with Gibbs straddling Johnson on both occasions.

With the foundation of the run-chase set, De Villiers and Amla did the wrapping and parceling with ease.

Pre-Play: Injury news for both sides – Nathan Bracken replaced by Hilfenhaus, Cameron White comes in for Nathan Hauritz (no injury required for that change).

Boucher misses today after a Tait yorker squished his toe – De Villiers will handle that aspect, while Morne Morkel fills the vacant spot.

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Australia vs South Africa, 4th ODI, Live Cricket

Don’t know what’s wrong with Aussie team but they look like just any other team and it’s not so easy to digest their performances after watching them dominating both ODI and Test cricket for more than a decade.

Australia currently trail the series 1-2 and need to win this match to stay alive in the series but looking at Australia performances in 1st three ODI’s, it will not be an easy task. South Africa may not get better chance again to win series against Australia in Australia and I think they should capitalize with two matches to go and only win required to seal the series.

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3rd ODI: Australia v South Africa at Sydney, Jan 23 2009, Highlights

Watch Cricket Highlights: Australia vs South Africa, 3rd One Day match played at the SCG – Sydney on January 23, 2009.

Scoreline: Australia 269. David Warner 69 (60). Botha 10-32-3. Albie Morkel eases the SA chase – 40 (22). Semi-Vintage Herschelle Gibbs 64 (52). Kallis 60. (got to 10000 runs in ODIs today). Nathan Bracken 9-29-1. 46.3 overs eventually was all it took SA.

With Dave Warner at it again, Australia raced to around 150 in 25 overs and then messed it up. Though Botha (in particular) and Duminy bowled well, it was more like Aus let them do so. In fact, many of the dismissals were pretty lame.

Even while fielding, Australia let slip several key moments that could well have won them the game – Gibbs and Amla dropped in the 1st Tait over, and Shaun Tait himself later dropping Albie Morkel with around 50 runs to get. Albie who was denied a chance to produce his magic in the 2nd ODI through poor rotation of strike, basically pulled this one off for SA after Gibbs had eaten into Tait and Mitchell Johnson.

Nathan Hauritz – there are some cricketers who come on the scene and you look at their face and just know they’re not going to do anything other than annoy you. David Hussey has looked a superior bowler whenever he has bowled and Hussey didn’t even bowl today. Just wish we could see Nathan bowling at Sehwag.

Prematch: It will be cool to see Mitchell Johnson back in action. Shaun Tait will also play tomorrow. The ones grumbling in a corner are Ryan Harris and Hilfenhaus.

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Australia vs South Africa 2nd ODI Highlights Hobart

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Watch cricket highlights from the 2nd ODI at Hobart – SA vs Australia – CB Series 2009. Australia won to tie the series 1-1.

Australia set a target of 250 but the South African chase was strange right from the outset – Gibbs pottered around and then got out trying to force the pace of the game. It was almost like the South Africans were thinking too much about the batting powerplay and Albie Morkel. Even with 60 to get off 36 balls, they could have pulled it off if Morkel had got more of the strike. Boucher despite late hits probably was as culpable as the batsmen before him who really couldnt get any boundaries away. Nathan Bracken was brilliant yet again and was the possibly difference between the two sides.

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