Australia vs South Africa 13th Match at Sharjah, 23 Oct, 2021

Toss: AAustralia, who chose to bowl
South Africa 118/9 (20)
Australia 121/5 (19.4)
Australia won by 5 wickets
Man of the Match: Josh Hazlewood
  • Matthew Wade 15 * (10)
  • Marcus Stoinis 24 * (16)

Over 4.4 Kagiso Rabada bowls a good length delivery to Steven Smith, no run, gets forward and miscues the punch to cover

Over 4.5 Kagiso Rabada bowls a back of length delivery to Steven Smith, no run,  walks across and lets it go over his left shoulder

Over 4.6 Kagiso Rabada bowls a good length delivery to Steven Smith,3 runs, gets forward and tries to flick the ball back into play. Good effort and he's done well not to touch the rope when he made contact with the rope

Over 5.1: Single. Keshav Maharaj to Steven Smith,

Over 5.3: Single. Keshav Maharaj to Steven Smith,

Over 6.1 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith, 2 runs, gets forward and drives it through extra cover and picks up a couple of runs.

Over 6.2 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run, shuffles and tucks a leggie to square leg

Over 6.5 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run, gets inside the line and whips it off the back foot to deep mid-wicket. 

Over 7.1 Keshav Maharaj bowls it short of length to Steven Smith,1 run, gets back in the crease and cuts it to sweeper cover.

Over 7.4 Keshav Maharaj tossed up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run, himmies down, gets too close to the pitch of the ball and jams the drive to long-on

Over 7.5 Keshav Maharaj tossed up delivery to Mitchell Marsh, out Caught by van der Dussen!!  Marsh stays leg-side of the ball and plays an aerial flick. Picks out the man in the deep as he doesn't middle it. For a moment, it looked like van der Dussen over-ran, but he did well in the head to jump and takes it.

Over 8.2 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run,  leans forward to drive this leggie to long-off

Over 8.4 Tabraiz Shamsi bowls it short of length to Steven Smith, Boundary! Rocks back, waits and opens his bat-face to guide it fine of the man at short third man. 

Over 8.5 Tabraiz Shamsi bowls a quicker arm ball to Steven Smith, no run, gets forward and defended to cover

Over 8.6 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run, gets forward to drive this full ball. The ball trims the inside edge, eludes the leg-stump and rolls to short third man

Over 9.1 Dwaine Pretorius bowls it short of length to Steven Smith,1 run, gets back in the crease and punched to deep point

Over 9.4 Dwaine Pretorius bowls a good length delivery to Steven Smith, no run, gets forward and  chopped to point's right who makes a diving stop

Over 9.5 Dwaine Pretorius bowls a pitched up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run, gets forward and  drilled to long-on

Over 10.2 Keshav Maharaj tossed up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run,  camps deep inside his crease to punch this down to long-on

Over 11.2: Single. Dwaine Pretorius to Steven Smith,

Over 11.5: Single. Dwaine Pretorius to Steven Smith,

Over 11.6: Single. Dwaine Pretorius to Steven Smith,

Over 12.2: Single. Keshav Maharaj to Steven Smith,

Over 12.3: Single. Keshav Maharaj to Steven Smith,

Over 13.2 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to GJ Maxwell,1 run, gets forward and driven back down the ground in a hurry

Over 13.3 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith, no run, goes on to the back foot and nudge to short mid-wicket

Over 13.4 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith,1 run, gets forward and drives it down to long-off for one.

Over 13.6 Tabraiz Shamsi tossed up delivery to Steven Smith, no run,  backing-away slap to backward point

Over 14.2 Anrich Nortje bowls a good length delivery to Steven Smith, no run, gets forward and opening his bat face, and finding point

Over 14.3 Anrich Nortje bowls a good length delivery to Steven Smith, no run, missing his glance to get struck on the thigh pad in front of off. Yep, too high, clearly

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