Greatest ODI
It can be easily termed as the greatest ODI cricket match ever both from statistical as well as performance point of view.
12th march 2006- Johannesburg, South Africa
The last match of a 2-2 hung 5-match series; it was an important decider for Australia and South Africa. Australia made 434 runs in 50 overs crossing the highest ever ODI runs by a team setting a target of 435 for South Africa to chase. The score card of Kangaroos read something like this: Ponting 164 runs in 105 balls, Gilchrist 55 runs in 44 balls, 79 runs in 90 balls and Hussey 81 runs in 51 balls.
I never expected SA to even get close to this target so I stopped following the match. After some time, I was surfing the channels and I was struck to see South Africa at around 293 runs in almost 28 overs only at the loss of 4 wickets. Gibbs was at crease.
He went on to make 175 runs in 111 balls. Boucher stayed till the end to make 50 runs and Wath made 35 runs in 18 balls. SA chased on to win the match only on the second last ball of the last over by hitting the boundary.
26 sixes hit in a ODI match- maximum till todate; costliest over in ODI: 113 runs in 10 overs by Lewis of Australia.
Man of the match was shared by Gibbs and Ponting and Ponting didn’t mix any words and made it clear that SA deserved to win.
WOW! That’s cricket.
12th march 2006- Johannesburg, South Africa
The last match of a 2-2 hung 5-match series; it was an important decider for Australia and South Africa. Australia made 434 runs in 50 overs crossing the highest ever ODI runs by a team setting a target of 435 for South Africa to chase. The score card of Kangaroos read something like this: Ponting 164 runs in 105 balls, Gilchrist 55 runs in 44 balls, 79 runs in 90 balls and Hussey 81 runs in 51 balls.
I never expected SA to even get close to this target so I stopped following the match. After some time, I was surfing the channels and I was struck to see South Africa at around 293 runs in almost 28 overs only at the loss of 4 wickets. Gibbs was at crease.
He went on to make 175 runs in 111 balls. Boucher stayed till the end to make 50 runs and Wath made 35 runs in 18 balls. SA chased on to win the match only on the second last ball of the last over by hitting the boundary.
26 sixes hit in a ODI match- maximum till todate; costliest over in ODI: 113 runs in 10 overs by Lewis of Australia.
Man of the match was shared by Gibbs and Ponting and Ponting didn’t mix any words and made it clear that SA deserved to win.
WOW! That’s cricket.
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