Australia thrashed South Africa by 276 runs in the final one-day international in Mackay to avoid a first clean sweep in an ODI series on home soil.<\/p>\n
The hosts amassed their second-highest ODI total as they finished on 431, with their top three all scoring centuries.<\/p>\n
They went on to secure their second-biggest ODI victory, with South Africa all out for 155 in 24.5 overs as Cooper Connolly – two days after his 22nd birthday – took five wickets for just 22 runs.<\/p>\n
South Africa, who suffered their heaviest ODI defeat in terms of runs, had already clinched the series by winning the first two contests.<\/p>\n
“A pretty crazy day, wasn’t it?” said Australia captain Mitchell Marsh.<\/p>\n
“A full performance from the lads. Shame it was a little bit too late but full credit to South Africa. They played outstandingly well in the first two games.”<\/p>\n
Marsh, Travis Head and Cameron Green each scored hundreds for Australia – with Green’s ton coming off only 47 balls.<\/p>\n
In response, South Africa fell to 50-4 in the ninth over and were unable to recover.<\/p>\n
“We were under the pump from the first ball,” South Africa captain Temba Bavuma said.<\/p>\n
“They put us under pressure. They made it look like a very good surface, and they were far better than us today.”<\/p>\n
South Africa’s Keshav Maharaj was awarded player-of-the-series for his six wickets.<\/p>\n
Australia’s highest ODI total came against South Africa in 2006, when they scored 434.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia thrashed South Africa by 276 runs in the final one-day international in Mackay to avoid a first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-90967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}