South Africa VS Australia Match ball by ball Commentary
LIVE
SA280/6
—AUS
Australia elected to field
ICC ODI Team's Ranking
| RANK | COUNTRY | POINTS | RATING |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 4122 | 115 |
| 2 | New Zealand | 3809 | 109 |
| 3 | South Africa | 3547 | 104 |
| 4 | Pakistan | 3693 | 103 |
| 5 | Australia | 3568 | 102 |
| 6 | Sri Lanka | 4050 | 96 |
| 7 | Afghanistan | 2926 | 94 |
| 8 | England | 3384 | 91 |
| 9 | Bangladesh | 3304 | 81 |
| 10 | West Indies | 2924 | 79 |
| 11 | Zimbabwe | 1315 | 63 |
| 12 | Ireland | 878 | 49 |
| 13 | Netherlands | 1446 | 45 |
| 14 | Scotland | 1260 | 45 |
| 15 | USA | 1228 | 41 |
| 16 | Namibia | 940 | 34 |
| 17 | Nepal | 1108 | 30 |
| 18 | Oman | 625 | 22 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 427 | 14 |
| 20 | Canada | 307 | 12 |
Nip-backer on a good length, Marco waits back and taps it to point.
FOUR! WHAT A SHOT! Hammers it on a length, outside off, Jansen frees his arms by throwing his bat at it and crunches it through the cover-point gap for a cracking boundary.
Back of a lenght, on top of off, Jansen defends it with soft hands.
Pitched full on the stumps, Jansen works it to long on for a single.
Pushed through, full and sliding down leg. Jansen leans forward and leaves.
Dropped short and on off, Rickelton rocks back and hits it through mid off for a single.
Around off and a wee bit short, Rickelton covers the stumps and punches it to the bowler.
Stump-to-stump with the length dragged a bit, Ryan knocks it to the bowler off the back foot.
Gives it a good rip, full on the stumps, Ryan pushes it back to Lyon.
DRINKS BREAK! It's been a really engrossing first hour or so in this final session of the day. Australia picked up a couple of quick wickets, but since then, Marco Jansen and Ryan Rickelton have settled things down for South Africa. Both batters have cashed in whenever an opportunity has presented itself and kept the scoreboard ticking over. Simon Harmer is still to come for South Africa, and he showed what he can do with the bat in Gqeberha, so Australia still have work to do. That said, things look a lot better for them now than they did at the end of the first session. The floodlights are on at Newlands, and with cloud cover around, it remains to be seen how much more play we get today.