Australia opened their innings positively with Shaun Marsh and David Warner featuring a Partnership. The 114 run partnership was finally broken by Steyn when he bowled Warner for 69 runs. Warner’s innings of 69 runs came from 60 balls featuring 6 boundaries and 2 massive sixes. Marsh was giving good support to Warner at the other end. Marsh also was dismissed in the 22nd over when the cricket score was 144 runs. Marsh played a patient knock and scored 43 runs from 63 balls with 4 boundaries.

The middle order of Australia completely faltered and Ponting, Michael Hussey and Haddin were dismissed for low scores. At the end of the 32nd over, Australia managed to score 188 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Australia added only 40 runs in 10 overs. Then David Hussey and Hopes revived the Australian innings with their partnership of 50 runs taking the cricket score to 239 runs in the 45th over. Australia managed to score only 30 runs in the last 5 overs as the wickets kept on felling during the end overs. Australia finally managed to post a decent score of 269 runs at the end of their innings.

South Africa started their chase of 270 runs confidently with Gibbs looking positive in his batting right from the beginning. Amla was dismissed in the 5th over when the cricket live score was 29 runs but this didn’t stop the momentum of the South African innings and Gibbs carried his aggressive play. Gibbs was dismissed in the 19th over for 64 runs from 52 balls featuring 10 boundaries and a six. South Africa was 125 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in the 19th over and Kallis was going strong.

Australia came back into the match claiming wicket after wicket and the South African middle order had a shake. The real shock came when Kallis was dismissed for 60 runs in the 28th over when the live cricket score was 163 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Boucher played sensibly and put on a partnership with Mckenzie and took the cricket score to 209 runs in the 40th over. South Africa needed 61 runs in the last 10 overs with just 4 wickets remaining.

This was the real crucial stage of the match when Morkel played a gem of an innings and took South Africa to victory from a tense situation. Morkel scored a quick 40 runs from just 22 balls featuring 6 boundaries and a six. This innings of Morkel took South Africa to victory with 21 balls to spare. Morkel was declared the man of the match for his match winning knock and South Africa lead the one day series 2-1 making the fourth match a survival for Australia to remain in the series.

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