Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

MP Breetzke
88(78) 8x4 - 2x6
Control %81%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 25 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
1 4 27 10 16 4 11 15
JP Inglis
JP Inglis
87(74) 10x4 - 2x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 10 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
11 4 16 9 11 4 16 16

Best performances - Bowlers

L Ngidi
L Ngidi
O8.4
M1
R42
W5
Eco4.84
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
2W
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
A Zampa
A Zampa
O10
M0
R63
W3
Eco6.3
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W1W

Match Details

Toss

South Africa , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

South Africa led the 3-match series 2-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00, Interval 18.00-18.45, Second Session 18.45-22.15

Match days

22 August 2025 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Sudeep Poojar | Commentator: Andrew McGlashan

South Africa win by 84 runs and take a 2-0 series lead. Another excellent performance from the visitors, set up by their middle order then an terrific outing from the bowling attack. Ngidi now has 26 wickets at 16.96 against Australia. Questions mount over Australia's batting. That's four innings in a row at home where they've been bowled out under 200. And only once before have they been bowled out four times in a row at home in ODIs (thanks to Namooh for that one). Eyes will be on a few players in the final match on Sunday. Presentations shortly.

Lungi Nigdi is player of the match: "I definitely had to step up. We know [Kagiso] is the spearhead of our attack but when he went down I knew I'd have big shoes to fill. It's been a test character this tournament, the guys in the powerplay have put us under pressure every single over. So it was really nice to find some assistance tonight and make that count. We gave them a chance and they made it count...so was a little bit nervous but felt like there was a bit of assistance and cross-seam seemed to be two different paces so just trying to nail that down and break the game up which worked quite nicely."

Mitchell Marsh "Yeah, disappointing. Thought as a collective we pegged them back beautifully with the ball and on that wicket probably below par but as a batting unit just couldn't get the job done tonight. Thought they bowled exceptionally well, it swung early, and yeah they outplayed us."

Aiden Markram "It's a great feeling. Never an easy feat coming to Australia and wrapping up the series in two games so really good from the boys, sure they are pretty chuffed and pretty pumped up about it. [Ngidi] It's always nice when it goes from one to the next and you don't feel like you have to rely on one or two guys. Incredibly happy for Lungs, the way he pulled it off for us tonight, the sort of wicket where there was a bit more pace and bounce and thought our two quick boys really showed off.[Dropped catches] In my opinion there's still quite a bit for us still to do and work on, drops catches is one of those things that happens but it's really hard taking ten poles so taking 13 or 14 we are making life quite tough for ourselves. But got it done in the end. Still a bit of work to do before we become a really good team."

So that just about wraps things up for tonight. Firdose's report will be updated shortly to bring together the full story. We'll be back on Sunday for the final match of the series but for now, from Gnasher and Alex, it's goodbye.

37.4
W
Ngidi to Zampa, OUT, and that's it, five for Ngidi! Short of a length, Zampa looks to take it over the leg side, sends it high in the air and a simple catch at mid-on. Bosch with a collection of catches that won't go on his record

A Zampa c sub (C Bosch) b Ngidi 3 (9m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 75

37.3
3
Ngidi to Hazlewood, 3 runs, full and straight, gives himself room outside leg, drives it down the ground...Markram chases hard

Second slip comes to midwicket

37.2
0
Ngidi to Hazlewood, no run, round the wicket, follows him outside leg stump, defended
37.1
1
Ngidi to Zampa, 1 run, short outside off, carved high down to deep third off a big top edge

Can Ngidi finish it with five? Dinesh: "Somebody remind Australia WC 2027 is very far away. They don't need to start under performing 2 yrs from the trophy to lift it!!!"

END OF OVER:
37 | 2 Runs 1 Wkt | AUS: 189/9 (89 runs required from 13 overs, RR: 5.10, RRR: 6.84)

  • Adam Zampa2 (2b)
  • Senuran Muthusamy8-0-30-2
  • Lungi Ngidi8-1-38-4

Australia quickly sliding to another heavy defeat. South Africa have been excellent

36.6
W
Muthusamy to Ellis, OUT, gone this time! Charges down, swings across the line, simple stumping

NT Ellis st †Rickelton b Muthusamy 3 (8m 7b 0x4 0x6) SR: 42.85

36.5
0
Muthusamy to Ellis, no run, nearly cleaned up! Close to everything. Plays back, aims square, nearly edges it and is nearly bowled

Australia 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st6MR MarshTM Head
2nd1MR MarshM Labuschagne
3rd31MR MarshC Green
4th67JP InglisC Green
5th28AT CareyJP Inglis
6th42JP InglisAM Hardie
7th9JP InglisXC Bartlett
8th1NT EllisXC Bartlett
9th4A ZampaNT Ellis
10th4JR HazlewoodA Zampa