Hosts Africa won the final game of the 5-match ODI series between South Africa and Australia by 122 runs and managed to win the series 3-2. In the last ODI, the South African team, batting first, scored 315 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 50 overs based on Aiden Markram’s innings of 93 runs. After that, the Australian team was reduced to just 193 runs in pursuit of the target. Marco Jansen took a maximum of 5 wickets while bowling for South Africa.
The Australian team, chasing the target of 316 runs against South Africa, got off to a very poor start. The team lost the wickets of David Warner and Josh English for 34. From here, a 90-run partnership was seen between captain Mitchell Marsh and Marnus Labuschagne for the third wicket. When Australia received their third blow in the form of Marsh with the score at 124, the team continued to lose wickets at regular intervals. Marsh returned to the pavilion with a personal score of 71 runs.
Marnus Labuschagne also fell victim to Marco Jansen after scoring 44 runs. The Australian team’s innings was limited to 34.1 overs in this match. Six batsmen of the Kangaroo team failed to even reach the double-digit mark in this match. Marco Jansen made half the Australian team his victim by scoring 39 runs in his 8 overs. Spin bowler Keshav Maharaj also picked up four wickets and delivered 33 runs in 9.1 overs.
If we talk about the batting performance of the South African team in this match, Aiden Markram played an innings of 93 runs off 87 balls and David Miller played an innings of 63 runs off 65 balls to lead the team to a big score. An important partnership of 109 runs was also witnessed between the two for the fifth wicket.
Marco Jansen, who played for the African team in the lower order, also showed his strength with the bat and played an important innings of 47 runs in 23 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. Furthermore, Andile Phelukwayo also scored an unbeaten 39 runs in 19 balls. For Australia, Adam Zampa took three wickets and Sean Abbott took two wickets in this game.