Kyle Abbott‚ Tabraiz Shamsi and Aaron Phangiso came off SA’s bench to heap more misery on Australia in the fourth one-day international at St George’s Park on Sunday.
The three bowlers‚ all playing their first match in a one-day series that SA clinched 3-0 at Kingsmead on Wednesday‚ took nine wickets between them as SA dismissed the visitors for 167.
And that represented a recovery‚ what with the Aussies having been reduced to 49/5 in 15 overs.
They were spared further embarrassment by a pair of half-centuries from Mitchell Marsh and Matthew Wade‚ and their partnership of 62 for the sixth wicket.
Fast bowler Abbott‚ who took 4/40‚ set the tone by cleanbowling openers Aaron Finch and David Warner in his first two overs with deliveries that jagged between bat and pad.
Dwaine Pretorius kept the pressure on when George Bailey played back to a ball that kept low and was trapped in front.
Then left-arm wrist spinner Shamsi‚ in the space of three deliveries‚ had the right-handed Steve Smith lbw with a ball that turned past the bat and repeated the dose to the left-handed Travis Head.
Australia’s fightback began with a confrontation between Shamsi and Wade‚ who appeared to try and run into the bowler as he completed a run.
Wade failed to make physical contact even though he trailed an elbow as he passed Shamsi — who took vociferous verbal exception‚ prompting umpires Adrian Holdstock and Nigel Llong to intervene to keep the peace.
Marsh and Wade took Australia into the 28th over‚ when Abbott returned to have Marsh caught behind for 50.
Shamsi completed his haul of 3/36 by trapping John Hastings in front‚ and left-arm spinner Phangiso claimed the first of his two wickets when he had Wade lbw for 52 with a delivery that hit the sweeping batsman in the midriff.
Phangiso owed some of the credit for his second wicket to Quinton de Kock‚ who was adamant that a ball from the slow left-armer had hit Scott Boland’s pad before it struck his bat and implored captain Faf du Plessis to review the decision of not out.
Du Plessis acquiesced and De Kock was proved correct.
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Proteas replacements heap misery on Aussies in fourth ODI
The three bowlers‚ all playing their first match in a one-day series that SA clinched 3-0 at Kingsmead on Wednesday‚ took nine wickets between them as SA dismissed the visitors for 167.
And that represented a recovery‚ what with the Aussies having been reduced to 49/5 in 15 overs.
They were spared further embarrassment by a pair of half-centuries from Mitchell Marsh and Matthew Wade‚ and their partnership of 62 for the sixth wicket.
Fast bowler Abbott‚ who took 4/40‚ set the tone by cleanbowling openers Aaron Finch and David Warner in his first two overs with deliveries that jagged between bat and pad.
Dwaine Pretorius kept the pressure on when George Bailey played back to a ball that kept low and was trapped in front.
Then left-arm wrist spinner Shamsi‚ in the space of three deliveries‚ had the right-handed Steve Smith lbw with a ball that turned past the bat and repeated the dose to the left-handed Travis Head.
Australia’s fightback began with a confrontation between Shamsi and Wade‚ who appeared to try and run into the bowler as he completed a run.
Wade failed to make physical contact even though he trailed an elbow as he passed Shamsi — who took vociferous verbal exception‚ prompting umpires Adrian Holdstock and Nigel Llong to intervene to keep the peace.
Marsh and Wade took Australia into the 28th over‚ when Abbott returned to have Marsh caught behind for 50.
Shamsi completed his haul of 3/36 by trapping John Hastings in front‚ and left-arm spinner Phangiso claimed the first of his two wickets when he had Wade lbw for 52 with a delivery that hit the sweeping batsman in the midriff.
Phangiso owed some of the credit for his second wicket to Quinton de Kock‚ who was adamant that a ball from the slow left-armer had hit Scott Boland’s pad before it struck his bat and implored captain Faf du Plessis to review the decision of not out.
Du Plessis acquiesced and De Kock was proved correct.
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