5th one Dayer

[Thiele]

Aus 1-130 after 21 overs

Haddin made 62

Ponting 1 no
Clarke 64 no

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Jonty Rhodes raised the bar for others to emulate and surpass and I think AB de Villiers may have done so with that.

Unbelievable, diving forward and throwing the stumps down while still in the air with about a stump and a bit to aim at.

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Third umpiring I think went to the other extreme there. Johnson hits the ball back to Duminy, he catches the ball, but straight away tells the umpire he is not sure.

3rd umpire is called and after about 4 replays on what looks to be a lineball decision he gives it out.

The other extreme of course is the multiple replays to determine a clear cut (on the 1st replay) decision.

[Interceptor]

After a top start we'll probably get bowled out in less than 50 overs after ANOTHER middle order collapse.

Spinners doing the damage yet again.

Despite winning the opening match, our one-day side is simply sub-par at present.

[Interceptor]

Not too bad in the end after M. Hussey and Hauritz held it together.

7/303 seems like a great score, but could have been a fair bit more.

SAf have the batting power to get it pretty comfortably, we'll see if the bowlers can rise to the challenge.

[Gozu]

Australia 7/303

Clarke 66 (60)
Haddin 62 (64)
M. Hussey 49* (55)
Ferguson 41 (33) (batting at four)
Ponting 40 (45)

Duminy 3/48
van der Merwe 2/44


South Africa 256

Gibbs 82 (101)
Kallis 64 (69)
de Villiers 38 (42)

Johnson 3/58 (8.5)
Hauritz 2/34 (9) (and a handy 24* (30) with the bat)
Bracken 2/54

Australia win by 47 runs and we now move up from #3 to #2 in the ODI rankings.

MOTM: Nathan Hauritz
MOTS: AB de Villiers

South Africa win the series 3-2.

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Hauritz just booked his place in the Ashes?