Australia completely bamboozled the home team South Africa in the first match. Team Australia scored 226 runs with six wickets down. The captain of the team Mitchell Marsh scored 92 runs off 49 balls he faced. Tim David faced 28 deliveries and scored 64 runs. Lizaad Williams gave 44 runs in four overs and took three wickets.
Team Australia dismissed all South African batsmen in 115 runs. Reeza Hendricks scored 56 runs, Rassie van der Dussen contributed 21 runs, Marco Jansen added 20 runs to his team’s scorecard. Tanveer Sangha took four wickets, Marcus Stoinis took three wickets, Spencer Johnson took two wickets and the remaining one wicket was taken by Sean Abbott.
Australia vs South Africa 2nd T20I Highlights 2023, Friday 1-9-2023, Australia tour of South Africa 2023, Kingsmead, Durban.
Toss: Australia chose to field.
Australia team: 1 Matthew Short, 2 Travis Head, 3 Mitchell Marsh (c), 4 Josh Inglis (wk), 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Tim David, 7 Aaron Hardie, 8 Sean Abbott, 9 Nathan Ellis, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Jason Behrendorff
South Africa team: 1 Temba Bavuma, 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Rassie van der Dussen, 4 Aiden Markram (capt), 5 Dewald Brevis, 6 Tristan Stubbs (wk), 7 Bjorn Fortuin, 8 Gerald Coetzee, 9 Lungi Ngidi, 10 Lizaad Williams, 11 Tabraiz Shamsi
Head to Head In T20I’s: 23
Australia Won: 15
South Africa Won: 8
Australia T20I Rankings: 6th
South Africa T20I Rankings: 5th
Form guide
(last five completed T20I’s, most recent first)
Australia WWWWL
South Africa LLWLL
Match Timings: 4:00 PM GMT | 6:00 PM Local
Umpires – Allahudien Paleker, Stephen Harris
TV Umpire – Bongani Jele
Match Referee – Richie Richardson
Reserve Umpire – Lubabalo Gcuma
Match number – T20I no. 2228
