Aus vs SA 3rd ODI: The third and last match of the ODI series between Australia and South Africa was played on Sunday, 24 August at the Great Barrier Reef Arena Stadium in McKay where the hosts beat South Africa by 276 runs and dust.
Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh and Cameron Green hit the century
In the third ODI on McKay’s ground, Australian captain Mitchell Marsh won the toss and chose the first batting after which Travis Head (142 runs on 103 balls), Mitchell Marsh (100 off 106 balls), and Cameron Green (unbeaten 118 on 55 balls) played a brilliant century. Not only this, for Australia, Alex Carry came to batting on number-4, who also hit an unbeaten 50 on 37 balls. On the basis of all these innings, Australia had hung 431 runs on the scoreboard, losing just 2 wickets in 50 overs.
Cooper Konoli opened the wound of wicket
After the Australian batsmen, the team’s 22 -year -old all -rounder Cooper Konoli rocked his bowling and took 5 wickets of the South Africa team for 22 runs in just 6 overs. He broke the back of the opposition team by taking the wickets of Tony de Jorji (33), Dewald Brevis (49), Vian Mulder (05), Corbin Bosch (17), and Keshav Maharaj (02). Apart from him, Xavier Bartlet and Sean Abbott took 2-2 wickets and Adam Jumpa took one wicket.
South Africa all out for 155 runs
South Africa had a huge target of 432 runs to win in front of South Africa, chasing only Dewald Bravis (49 runs on 28 balls) and Tony de Jorji (33 on 30 balls) could stand on a few fields. The same South Africa team was able to play only 24.5 overs and was all out for 155 runs. In this way Australia won the match by a big margin of 276 runs.
Travis Head and Keshav Maharaj got respect
Australia’s explosive batter Travis Head has been awarded the Player of the Match award for the innings of 142 runs on 103 balls in the third ODI. At the same time, South African spinner Keshav Maharaj, who scored 37 runs in the three -match series and took 6 wickets, he has been appreciated by the Player of the Match award.
South Africa won 2–1 series
Also know that even though South Africa has suffered an embarrassing defeat by 276 runs in the third ODI, the winning team of this series is South Africa. He won this series 2–1 and won his name.
