Fixture 25 Apr at 01:30 PM  • Gros Islet
South Africa vs Australia  • 2nd Semi-Final (day)  • ICC World Cup 2007
  • South Africa SA
  • 149 / 10 ( 43.5 Ovs )
  • Australia AUS
  • 153 / 3 ( 31.3 Ovs )
  • Australia won by 7 wickets (with 111 balls remaining)
    • FOUR
    Target 150
    Recent Balls
    • 4241000002
    31.3
    4
    Hall to Symonds
    leg-side full toss, Symonds does the business with a swish through midwicket and that's Australia into their fourth successive final
    31.3
    2
    Hall to Clarke
    driven past extra cover, and a no-ball
    31.2
    4
    Hall to Clarke
    Clarke gives himself room and cracks that back from where it came, with interest
    31.1
    1
    Hall to Symonds
    worked through square leg
    30.6
    0
    Langeveldt to Clarke
    blocked to extra cover
    30.5
    0
    Langeveldt to Clarke
    outside off, no contact
    30.4
    0
    Langeveldt to Clarke
    flicked to Pollock at mid-on, a quick call of "no" doesn't stop Pollock hurling the ball at the non striker's end
    30.3
    0
    Langeveldt to Clarke
    yorker, Clarke digs it out with a little sniff of lateness
    30.2
    0
    Langeveldt to Clarke
    patted into the covers
    30.1
    2
    Langeveldt to Clarke
    controlled cut to third man
    29.6
    1
    Hall to Clarke
    Clarke takes a couple of steps and drives to mid-on
    29.5
    0
    Hall to Clarke
    pushed to extra cover
    29.4
    1
    Hall to Symonds
    Symonds heaves towards midwicket, get a thick edge and the ball scoots down to third man
    29.3
    2
    Hall to Symonds
    clipped off leg stump to deep backward square leg
    29.2
    0
    Hall to Symonds
    swished off middle to midwicket where Kallis makes a decent stop even though he overshot once he had got a hand to the ball
    29.1
    0
    Hall to Symonds
    straight and Symonds very respectfully blocks
    28.6
    0
    Nel to Clarke
    checked drive, with a sniff of an inside edge, to mid-on
    28.5
    4
    Nel to Clarke
    hit on the up, over mid-on and that's his fifty off 75 balls
    28.4
    0
    Nel to Clarke
    into the ground, Clarke ponders the single but the ball went no more a yard in front of him and Nel was wise to what he was thinking
    28.3
    0
    Nel to Clarke
    wide and smeared to point where Gibbs makes a good stop diving to his right

    Match Info

    MATCH SA Vs AUS
    DATE 25 Apr, 2007
    TIME 01:30 PM UTC | 09:30 AM LOCAL
    VENUE Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia
    TOSS
    UMPIRES Aleem Dar
    REFEREE Steve Bucknor

    South Africa (Batting) : 149/10 (43.5 Ovs)

    Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
    GC Smith
    b Bracken
    		 2 5 0 0 40
    AB de Villiers
    c †Gilchrist b Tait
    		 15 34 3 0 44.11
    JH Kallis
    b McGrath
    		 5 9 1 0 55.55
    HH Gibbs
    c †Gilchrist b Tait
    		 39 49 6 0 79.59
    AG Prince
    c †Gilchrist b McGrath
    		 0 2 0 0 0
    MV Boucher
    c Hayden b McGrath
    		 0 1 0 0 0
    JM Kemp
    not out
    		49 91 4 1 53.84
    AJ Hall
    c †Gilchrist b Tait
    		 3 8 0 0 37.5
    SM Pollock
    c & b Hogg
    		 5 13 1 0 38.46
    A Nel
    c Clarke b Tait
    		 8 41 1 0 19.51
    CK Langeveldt
    b Watson
    		 6 10 1 0 60
    Total 149/10 (43.5 Ovs)      Extras: 17      ( b 0 , lb 4 , w 13 , nb 0 , p 0)

    Fall of Wickets

    Wkt # Player Runs Ovs
    1 GC Smith
    b Bracken
    		 7 2.3
    2 JH Kallis
    b McGrath
    		 12 5.3
    3 AB de Villiers
    c †Gilchrist b Tait
    		 26 8.5
    4 AG Prince
    c †Gilchrist b McGrath
    		 27 9.4
    5 MV Boucher
    c Hayden b McGrath
    		 27 9.5
    6 HH Gibbs
    c †Gilchrist b Tait
    		 87 22.5
    7 AJ Hall
    c †Gilchrist b Tait
    		 93 26.1
    8 SM Pollock
    c & b Hogg
    		 103 29.4
    9 A Nel
    c Clarke b Tait
    		 130 40.1
    10 CK Langeveldt
    b Watson
    		 149 43.5

    Bowling

    Bowler O M R W WD NB ECO
    NW Bracken 7 2 15 1 0 0 2.14
    GD McGrath 8 1 18 3 1 0 2.25
    SW Tait 10 0 39 4 5 0 3.9
    SR Watson 8.5 0 49 1 0 0 5.54
    GB Hogg 10 2 24 1 3 0 2.4

    Australia (Batting) : 153/3 (31.3 Ovs)

    Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
    AC Gilchrist
    b Langeveldt
    		 1 5 0 0 20
    ML Hayden
    c Smith b Pollock
    		 41 60 4 0 68.33
    RT Ponting
    b Nel
    		 22 25 5 0 88
    MJ Clarke
    not out
    		60 86 8 0 69.76
    A Symonds
    not out
    		18 16 3 0 112.5
    MEK Hussey
    SR Watson
    GB Hogg
    NW Bracken
    SW Tait
    GD McGrath
    Total 153/3 (31.3 Ovs)      Extras: 11      ( b 0 , lb 5 , w 3 , nb 3 , p 0)

    Fall of Wickets

    Wkt # Player Runs Ovs
    1 AC Gilchrist
    b Langeveldt
    		 1 1.1
    2 RT Ponting
    b Nel
    		 44 8.6
    3 ML Hayden
    c Smith b Pollock
    		 110 24.4

    Bowling

    Bowler O M R W WD NB ECO
    SM Pollock 5 1 16 1 0 0 3.2
    CK Langeveldt 6 0 34 1 1 1 5.66
    JH Kallis 5 1 20 0 1 1 4
    A Nel 7 1 31 1 1 0 4.42
    AJ Hall 6.3 0 43 0 0 1 6.61
    JM Kemp 2 0 4 0 0 0 2

    South Africa Partnerships

    GC Smith
    2 (5)     		7 (15)
    2.3 Ovs     		AB de Villiers
    4 (10)
    JH Kallis
    5 (9)     		5 (18)
    3 Ovs     		AB de Villiers
    0 (9)
    HH Gibbs
    3 (5)     		14 (20)
    3.2 Ovs     		AB de Villiers
    11 (15)
    HH Gibbs
    1 (3)     		1 (5)
    0.5 Ovs     		AG Prince
    0 (2)
    HH Gibbs
    0 (0)     		0 (1)
    0.1 Ovs     		MV Boucher
    0 (1)
    HH Gibbs
    35 (41)     		60 (78)
    13 Ovs     		JM Kemp
    18 (37)
    AJ Hall
    3 (8)     		6 (20)
    3.2 Ovs     		JM Kemp
    1 (12)
    SM Pollock
    5 (13)     		10 (21)
    3.3 Ovs     		JM Kemp
    4 (8)
    JM Kemp
    14 (22)     		27 (63)
    10.3 Ovs     		A Nel
    8 (41)
    JM Kemp
    12 (12)     		19 (22)
    3.4 Ovs     		CK Langeveldt
    6 (10)

    Australia Partnerships

    ML Hayden
    0 (2)     		1 (7)
    1.1 Ovs     		AC Gilchrist
    1 (5)
    ML Hayden
    17 (23)     		43 (48)
    7.5 Ovs     		RT Ponting
    22 (25)
    ML Hayden
    24 (35)     		66 (95)
    15.4 Ovs     		MJ Clarke
    36 (60)
    A Symonds
    18 (16)     		43 (42)
    6.5 Ovs     		MJ Clarke
    24 (26)

    South Africa (Batting) Overs

    # Bowler Runs W B TR TW ORR
    1 Nathan Bracken
    1 0 0 0 0 4     		5 0 6 5 0 5
    2 Glenn McGrath
    		2 0 12 7 0 3.5
    3 Nathan Bracken
    		0 1 18 7 1 2.33
    4 Glenn McGrath
    		0 0 24 7 1 1.75
    5 Nathan Bracken
    		1 0 30 8 1 1.6
    6 Glenn McGrath
    		9 1 36 17 2 2.83
    7 Nathan Bracken
    		4 0 42 21 2 3
    8 Glenn McGrath
    		1 0 48 22 2 2.75
    9 Shaun Tait
    		4 1 54 26 3 2.88
    10 Glenn McGrath
    		1 2 60 27 5 2.7
    11 Shaun Tait
    		8 0 66 35 5 3.18
    12 Glenn McGrath
    		1 0 72 36 5 3
    13 Shaun Tait
    		11 0 78 47 5 3.61
    14 Nathan Bracken
    		3 0 84 50 5 3.57
    15 Shane Watson
    		5 0 90 55 5 3.66
    16 Brad Hogg
    		1 0 96 56 5 3.5
    17 Shane Watson
    		6 0 102 62 5 3.64
    18 Brad Hogg
    		5 0 108 67 5 3.72
    19 Shane Watson
    		2 0 114 69 5 3.63
    20 Brad Hogg
    		2 0 120 71 5 3.55
    21 Shane Watson
    		6 0 126 77 5 3.66
    22 Brad Hogg
    		6 0 132 83 5 3.77
    23 Shaun Tait
    		4 1 138 87 6 3.78
    24 Brad Hogg
    		2 0 144 89 6 3.7
    25 Shaun Tait
    		1 0 150 90 6 3.6
    26 Brad Hogg
    		3 0 156 93 6 3.57
    27 Shaun Tait
    		1 1 162 94 7 3.48
    28 Nathan Bracken
    		0 0 168 94 7 3.35
    29 Shaun Tait
    		5 0 174 99 7 3.41
    30 Brad Hogg
    		4 1 180 103 8 3.43
    31 Glenn McGrath
    		3 0 186 106 8 3.41
    32 Brad Hogg
    		1 0 192 107 8 3.34
    33 Glenn McGrath
    		1 0 198 108 8 3.27
    34 Brad Hogg
    		1 0 204 109 8 3.2
    35 Shane Watson
    		10 0 210 119 8 3.4
    36 Brad Hogg
    		0 0 216 119 8 3.3
    37 Shaun Tait
    		3 0 222 122 8 3.29
    38 Shane Watson
    		1 0 228 123 8 3.23
    39 Shaun Tait
    		1 0 234 124 8 3.17
    40 Shane Watson
    		6 0 240 130 8 3.25
    41 Shaun Tait
    		2 1 246 132 9 3.21
    42 Shane Watson
    		10 0 252 142 9 3.38
    43 Nathan Bracken
    		2 0 258 144 9 3.34
    44 Shane Watson
    		5 1 258 149 10 3.46

    Australia (Batting) Overs

    # Bowler Runs W B TR TW ORR
    1 Shaun Pollock
    0 0 0 1 0 0     		1 0 6 1 0 1
    2 Charl Langeveldt
    		5 1 12 6 1 3
    3 Shaun Pollock
    		0 0 18 6 1 2
    4 Charl Langeveldt
    		13 0 24 19 1 4.75
    5 Shaun Pollock
    		8 0 30 27 1 5.4
    6 Jacques Kallis
    		0 0 36 27 1 4.5
    7 Andre Nel
    		7 0 42 34 1 4.85
    8 Jacques Kallis
    		6 0 48 40 1 5
    9 Andre Nel
    		4 1 54 44 2 4.88
    10 Jacques Kallis
    		6 0 60 50 2 5
    11 Andre Nel
    		4 0 66 54 2 4.9
    12 Jacques Kallis
    		3 0 72 57 2 4.75
    13 Andre Nel
    		2 0 78 59 2 4.53
    14 Jacques Kallis
    		10 0 84 69 2 4.92
    15 Andre Nel
    		0 0 90 69 2 4.6
    16 Charl Langeveldt
    		2 0 96 71 2 4.43
    17 Andrew Hall
    		8 0 102 79 2 4.64
    18 Charl Langeveldt
    		6 0 108 85 2 4.72
    19 Andrew Hall
    		6 0 114 91 2 4.78
    20 Charl Langeveldt
    		6 0 120 97 2 4.85
    21 Andrew Hall
    		3 0 126 100 2 4.76
    22 Justin Kemp
    		1 0 132 101 2 4.59
    23 Shaun Pollock
    		5 0 138 106 2 4.6
    24 Justin Kemp
    		3 0 144 109 2 4.54
    25 Shaun Pollock
    		2 1 150 111 3 4.44
    26 Andrew Hall
    		6 0 156 117 3 4.5
    27 Andre Nel
    		10 0 162 127 3 4.7
    28 Andrew Hall
    		5 0 168 132 3 4.71
    29 Andre Nel
    		4 0 174 136 3 4.68
    30 Andrew Hall
    		4 0 180 140 3 4.66
    31 Charl Langeveldt
    		2 0 186 142 3 4.58
    32 Andrew Hall
    		11 0 186 153 3 4.93
    1
    Sixes
    37
    Fours
    13
    Wickets
    373
    Sixes
    1808
    Fours
    658
    Wickets
    51
    Matches

    Player of the Match

    Glenn McGrath Glenn McGrath (AUS)
    Team M W T L PT NRR
    AUS 7 7 0 0 14 2.4
    SL 7 5 0 2 10 1.483
    NZ 7 5 0 2 10 0.253
    SA 7 4 0 3 8 0.313
    ENG 7 3 0 4 6 -0.394
    WI 7 2 0 5 4 -0.566
    BAN 7 1 0 6 2 -1.514
    IRE 7 1 0 6 2 -1.73

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