SA vs AUS - The greatest cricket match in history
13 March 2006 South Africa, Sport
Update: The DVD is available from Kalahari.net!
Its a 3 DVD box set. The 1st DVD contains a highlights package of the entire series - Pro20 game and the 5 ODI’s. The other 2 DVD’s consist of the entire 5th ODI match, with ball by ball coverage. It is a real collectible that you will watch for years to come.
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438 - The Greatest One-Day Game SA Cricket
For those of you that got to watch South Africa take on the Aussies in the 5th and final one-day international at the Wanderers on Sunday, might not be able to comprehend what happened. The match had so many emotions in it that you felt that someone had died and you had won the lottery on the same day.
Depressing = watching Australia taking the South African bowlers to the cleaners for the highest one-day score ever, 434/4.
Utter exhilaration = Seeing South Africa come out and actually surpass that mammoth total to win the match and series, and take the record for the highest one-day score, 438/9
This series will go down in history as one of the most exciting series between these two countries and you could not have scripted a better one-day final, even if you tried. Records were broken on Sunday that will take years to beat, if not never.
The records that tumbled
Highest team total: 438 - beating Sri Lanka’s 398 against Kenya
Highest total runs of runs: 872
Most sixes in a ODI: 26 - previous record was 21
Most fours in a ODI: 87 - previous record was 79
Bowler conceding the most runs in a ODI: Mick Lewis bowled 10 overs for 113 runs.
Herschelle Gibbs scored 175 - the second highest score for South Africa, the highest South African score against Australia and the quickest century by a South African.
For those of you that might not understand the wonderful game of cricket, I will compare what happened yesterday to a game of soccer (football): The top two teams in the world, Brazil and Argentina play in a tournament final. The first half sees Brazil score 20 goals and leave Argentina stunned as they go into half-time 20-0 down. (As you can see, all records are smashed with that amount of goals). After half-time Argentina come out and in the final 30 seconds of the game take the score to 21-20, beating the world’s best team. That’s what South Africa did yesterday. They rewrote the history books.
Today, I don’t think I could be any prouder to be a South African. It was amazing.
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7 comments so far...
You might need to increase the numbers in your soccer example to 41-40: I think Australia beat Fiji (or one of the Pacific island nations) 33-0 once.
3:47 pm
BTW - let me know if the RSA broadcaster ever releases the game on DVD, or replays the game on the telly (you’ll have to get a video capture card and post it on BitTorrent for us!)
3:48 pm
Well DSTV released PVR (our answer to TIVO. well sort of…) a couple of months back, so someone has bound to have recorded it!
Woah 33-0! ok then… 40-41 the final score is….
4:02 pm
I read that you can get DVDs of historic games from cricinfo.com, havn’t checked it out though. Thats a great comparison Jason, great post.
12:45 pm
Wezzo, I just read that SA cricket are busy producing the series on DVD. Via News24.com
Thanks for the compliments and good luck for the SA bloggies tonight!
1:01 pm
For all of those looking for the DVD, well its now available from Kalahari.net!
SA vs Aus - 438 - The Greatest One-Day Game SA Cricket
Enjoy!
12:31 pm
greatest one day cricket match aus vs rsa
11:26 am
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