South Africa’s playing eleven missed the likes of Kallis, Ntini and most of the players were youngsters with less experience. Despite the changes, South Africa lost to Australia badly. Australia made a complete sweep of the Twenty 20 series by winning 2-0.

Cricket360 comments that Twenty 20 creates immense opportunity to new players like Warner to show their skills while experienced veterans like Hayden are sitting in the bench and to add to this controversy, Hayden, the great Australian opener had announced his retirement. Twenty 20 has brought in a lot of changes in the cricketing world.

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first and was aiming to post a big cricket score. The opening pair of Gibbs and Amla showed positive signs in the first 5 overs and scored 35 runs, when Gibbs was dismissed by hopes. Soon Amla also fell for 26 runs in the 7th over when the cricket score was 40 runs. Van Jaarsveld also was dismissed in the next over leaving South Africa in a state of bother with a cricket score of 41 runs for the loss of 3 wickets.

Then Boucher joined Duminy and both played sensibly and put on a decent partnership of 49 runs which was the only highlight of South African batting. Boucher was dismissed in the 13th over when the cricket score was 90 runs. Duminy continues his form from the previous match and was scoring freely but Australia managed to take wickets at the other end and stopped South Africa from accelerating. Morkel was dismissed for 19 runs and South Africa finished their innings for a live cricket score of 157 runs with Duminy remaining unbeaten on 69 runs from 41 balls with a strike rate of 168.29 featuring 7 boundaries and 2 sixes. Australian bowling was economical.

Australia started their innings slowly chasing a target of 158 runs. Steyn clean bowled Warner for 7 runs and this created alarming bells in Australian bench. Soon Marsh was also dismissed. Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey played sensibly and put on a decent partnership taking the cricket live score to 90 runs in 13th over and recovered Australia from the early onslaught by South Africa. From here on Hussey and White put on a partnership to take Australia to victory comfortably with 7 balls to spare. Michael Hussey was declared the man of the match for his unbeaten knock of 53 runs from 33 balls featuring 5 boundaries and a six. Cricket360.com comments that the weak spot for Australia was its middle order which was proved wrong as the middle order batsmen took Australia to victory sweeping the entire series 2-0.

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