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As much as it pains me to imagine Graeme Smith's fat gloating face, the South Africans have just chased down 434 to beat Australia in the final of the ODI tournament in SA.
That's right, 434.
The first time anyone's clocked up over 400 and we've lost. Stunning. Hats off to the Saffers but you're still a bunch of ...
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Yeah, they got 438 with a ball to spare. Herschelle Gibbs cracked 175.
The great thing is the world has woken up to the Aussies being beatable at last.
You have to question Punter's decision to bowl Mick Lewis out. He's a trundler. Cracked for 0/113 off 10 overs. Oh for Glenn McGrath or even Warnie.
And Brett Lee finshes with a couple of overs up his sleeve. What happened there.
With the innings of Ponting and Gibbs, the day looks close when someone will finally belt a 200 in a ODI.
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[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:
With the innings of Ponting and Gibbs, the day looks close when someone will finally belt a 200 in a ODI.
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Saeed Anwar nearly did it ten years ago, but got caught on the rope hitting a six. He ended up with 194.
[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: You have to question Punter's decision to bowl Mick Lewis out. He's a trundler. Cracked for 0/113 off 10 overs. Oh for Glenn McGrath or even Warnie.
And Brett Lee finshes with a couple of overs up his sleeve. What happened there.
With the innings of Ponting and Gibbs, the day looks close when someone will finally belt a 200 in a ODI.
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My God - 0/113, if was Oz-qualified, maybe I could get a bowl...
Snorri xxx
Ronald Kirsch wrote: far out what a match.
What's the reaction like over with you, Ronald?
Snorri xxx
Snorrimon wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: far out what a match.
What's the reaction like over with you, Ronald?
Snorri xxx
disbelief and amazement. SA scored a record 438. it went down to the last ball. it could have gone eiter way.
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
Snorrimon wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: far out what a match.
What's the reaction like over with you, Ronald?
Snorri xxx
disbelief and amazement. SA scored a record 438. it went down to the last ball. it could have gone eiter way.
But did people expect it to go the Aussie's way - I mean you pretty much expect to win, don't you (and with good reason) - I think we are used to 50-50s going against us, I mean we look like we're going to get walloped tomorrow...
Snorri xxx
SA shatter record to beat Aussies
One-day international, Johannesburg: South Africa 438-9 beat Australia 434-4 by one wicket
Scorecard
One-day international records broken
Gibbs was South Africa's matchwinner on a remarkable day
South Africa reached the highest target ever in a one-day international to cap an unforgettable day of cricket and win the five-match series 3-2.
Captain Ricky Ponting hit 164 off 105 balls as Australia shattered the record score with 434-4 and looked to be in an impregnable position in Johannesburg.
But with Herschelle Gibbs hitting a remarkable 175 off 111 balls and Graeme Smith 90, the hosts fought back.
Mark Boucher hit the penultimate ball to the boundary to complete the win.
The home crowd went delirious after seeing 872 runs scored in the day and Australia concede a head-to-head one-day series for the first time in four years.
Previously, no team had ever reached 400 before and this match will go down in history as one of the finest ever staged.
You couldn't ask for a more exciting one-day match - it was great
Ricky Ponting Quotes: Reaction from players
Ponting's contribution in Australia's innings was overshadowed by what followed.
Michael Hussey helped him add 158 for the third wicket, contributing 81, as Australia shattered the previous best score - Sri Lanka's 398-5 against Kenya 10 years ago.
Australia won the toss on a perfect batting wicket at the Wanderers and were given an ideal start by Adam Gilchrist (55) and Simon Katich (79).
They put on 97 in barely 15 overs for the first wicket as an attack missing Shaun Pollock, Andre Nel and Charl Langeveldt struggled from the off.
Photos: Action pictures from Johannesburg thriller
The opening stand was only ended by a stunning one-handed catch by Andrew Hall at mid-on - but that was soon forgotten in the carnage that followed.
Ponting began cautiously but was soon thumping sixes about on the same ground where he had hit an unbeaten 140 in the 2003 World Cup final.
He put on 119 with Katich off 93 balls - but that was just the warm-up act.
His partnership with Hussey occupied just 96 balls as the pair went ballistic with almost any ball on a length hit for four or six.
After Hussey had fallen to a catch in the deep, the 400 came up in the 48th over with Roger Telemachus producing four no-balls in succession.
Ricky Ponting's fine innings was eclipsed by Herschelle Gibbs
By then, Andrew Symonds had joined in the party but Ponting finally holed out at deep extra cover in the same over, which cost 28 runs in all.
South Africa looked doomed to lose heavily once Boeta Dippenaar had fallen in the second over.
Gibbs and Smith had other ideas, however.
In less than 21 overs they put on 187 runs in extraordinary fashion, actually reducing the required run rate and making the unthinkable possible.
Gibbs was in no way put off his stroke when Smith was caught in the deep, accelerating to reach his century off 79 balls.
After hitting successive sixes off Symonds, he moved to 175 in the 32nd over with South Africa still only three wickets down and suddenly the hosts were favourites to win.
But trying to hit Symonds over the covers, he drove a catch to long-off and when Jacques Kallis was next to go - caught and bowled by Symonds - it set up a tense finish.
I think we can probably rightly call this the best one-day international ever!
From JB Have your say on TMS
Nathan Bracken's final spell looked like it might settle matters Australia's way and he finished with figures of 5-67.
In his first over back, the 40th, he conceded just two runs, and in his following over he had Justin Kemp caught at point - and only three runs were scored.
Suddenly, 77 were needed from the last seven overs and it seemed too tall an order.
However, Johan van der Wath hit 35 off 18 balls and Telemachus 12 off six to throw the game wide open again.
Seven were needed off the final over with two capable batsmen, Boucher and Hall, at the crease.
When Hall clubbed Lee over midwicket for four, it left two wanted from four.
He was caught next ball to bring Makhaya Ntini to the crease, and a single from him, plus a four driven over mid-on by Boucher completed the win.
Australia's Mick Lewis suffered worst of all the bowlers, his 10 overs costing 113 runs - the worst figures ever and the first time a bowler has conceded more than 100 in a 50-over match.
Snorrimon wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
Snorrimon wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: far out what a match.
What's the reaction like over with you, Ronald?
Snorri xxx
disbelief and amazement. SA scored a record 438. it went down to the last ball. it could have gone eiter way.
But did people expect it to go the Aussie's way - I mean you pretty much expect to win, don't you (and with good reason) - I think we are used to 50-50s going against us, I mean we look like we're going to get walloped tomorrow...
Snorri xxx
yes we all went to bed thinking it was in the bag.
anyway i've got to go to work now.
Just heard it described as the longest TwentyTwenty match ever.
Perhaps we are to expect more of the same, possibly as a result of 20-20.
a relative of mine batted all day in the Windies to earn a draw.
He was the England captain at the time. 
Namedropper! 
Barney Army wrote: a relative of mine batted all day in the Windies to earn a draw.
He was the England captain at the time.
Namedropper!
Ummm... give us a clue
Burt Reynolds wrote:
Barney Army wrote: a relative of mine batted all day in the Windies to earn a draw.
He was the England captain at the time.
Namedropper!
Ummm... give us a clue
not difficult mate
Athers
Barney Army wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote:
Barney Army wrote: a relative of mine batted all day in the Windies to earn a draw.
He was the England captain at the time.
Namedropper!
Ummm... give us a clue
not difficult mate
Athers
Ahhh... I thought so.. The Windies reference threw me cos it was in South Africa. 185 no - I remember watching it. Was so gritty it was not unlike watching paint dry, but nevertheless effective.
Burt Reynolds wrote: The Windies reference threw me cos it was in South Africa.
oh aye!
oops!
I had a 'Missy Jem' moment 
This year has seen crickt explode into a worldwide phenomenom what with the Ashes series and now this test- and Aussies on the losing side in both - fantastic!!!!
M wrote: This year has seen crickt explode into a worldwide phenomenom what with the Ashes series and now this test- and Aussies on the losing side in both - fantastic!!!!
spoken like a true Blue 
you gotta take yer hat off to the Aussies, cricket would be shit without them 
"Digital Mike Binoche" wrote: SA shatter record to beat Aussies
One-day international, Johannesburg: South Africa 438- 9 beat Australia 434-4 by one wicket ScorecardOne-day international records broken
Gibbs was South Africa's matchwinner on a remarkable day
South Africa reached the highest target ever in a one-day international to cap an unforgettable day of cricket and win the five-match series 3-2.
Gibbs and Smith had other ideas, however.
- it set up a tense finish. I think we can probably rightly call this the best one-day international ever! --From JB
Have your say on TMS ---Suddenly, first time a bowler has conceded more than 100 in a 50-over match.
so fresh. and a shining cut- and- paste- not link. 
thanks. D. Mike Binoche.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:
With the innings of Ponting and Gibbs, the day looks close when someone will finally belt a 200 in a ODI.
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Saeed Anwar nearly did it ten years ago, but got caught on the rope hitting a six. He ended up with 194.
Gibbs was out for 175 in the 33rd over!
Hard to fathom the carnage that was taking place.
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Wanderers in Jo'burg is a smallish ground and the pitch did absolutely nothing at all, little bit of swing for Stuart Clark and Andrew Hall but that was about it, plus the outfield was lightning fast. Good recipe for a run fest - this is where Ponting got 140no in the World Cup final so they were all licking their lips beforehand. Bowling was crap all round, wasnt just Lewis...only Bracken seemed to know what a yorker was.
One thing you can say about the Aussies is that they're good sports and gracious in defeat, particularly Gilchrist, Ponting and Lee. The headline in the Jo'burg Star today however is: "438/9 Choke on this, Aussies!"
Gibbs's "moerse babalas" translates as the 'mother of all...' (Babalas is phonetic - work it out!)
[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote:
[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:
With the innings of Ponting and Gibbs, the day looks close when someone will finally belt a 200 in a ODI.
:\pimp3:
Saeed Anwar nearly did it ten years ago, but got caught on the rope hitting a six. He ended up with 194.
Gibbs was out for 175 in the 33rd over!
Hard to fathom the carnage that was taking place.
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Amazing batting during the Aussie innings as well, as Tony Greig said "this ground isn't a Bull Ring, it's an abbatoir!"
[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: Hats off to the Saffers but you're still a bunch of ...
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:finger: :finger: :) What a sweet sweet victory - had some Aussie mates sms'ing me after the Aussie innings with a variety of gloating comments. The Herald Sun on Sunday morning (which was printed after the Aussie innings) was going on about the "hapless South Africans" etc. Even though I think Graeme Smith is a wanker, I'll enjoy this one for a long time to come. A little glimpse into the post-Warne/McGrath era.
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:finger: :finger: :) What a sweet sweet victory - had some Aussie mates sms'ing me after the Aussie innings with a variety of gloating comments. The Herald Sun on Sunday morning (which was printed after the Aussie innings) was going on about the "hapless South Africans" etc. Even though I think Graeme Smith is a wanker, I'll enjoy this one for a long time to come. A little glimpse into the post-Warne/McGrath era.
Hey, we have a South African in our ranks! You should've made yourself known sooner. Like during your tour here ;)
No harm intended. Just a little over certain members of SA cricket teams coming here every three years, trash talking us, but never delivering. I'll be the first to admit that we've got some wankers in our team as well.
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[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:
Hey, we have a South African in our ranks! You should've made yourself known sooner. Like during your tour here ;)
No harm intended. Just a little over certain members of SA cricket teams coming here every three years, trash talking us, but never delivering. I'll be the first to admit that we've got some wankers in our team as well.
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Well do you expect them to lie back and say 'okay, f*ck me' every time they come?! Dont think they trash talk, just try a little bit of like for like....not a very effective strategy though! That nice Mr Warne has been shooting his mouth off ever since he beached here a few days ago!
No, I'm not really saying that's what I expect.
For years now SA have been coming out here and spinning stuff like they're the best team in the world despite what rankings indicate and yet forever they go back home with tails between legs. No other team does this. It just ends up stirring up a hornets' nest.
Yeah, Warney's been shooting his mouth off again. I've heard. He can't help himself. But it seems to be in response to Smith and Boucher coming over here and spinning all sorts of psycho-babble. At the end of the day, crowds everywhere are gonna hate Warne whatever he does. Partly because he's a self-absorbed wanker and partly because he's capable of destroying their team.
Thing with SA is that traditionally there are a lot of similarities with Australia, more so than probably any other team. Including NZ. So IMO this tends to breed a bit more animosity and a deeply-buried, grudging respect.
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[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: No, I'm not really saying that's what I expect.
For years now SA have been coming out here and spinning stuff like they're the best team in the world despite what rankings indicate and yet forever they go back home with tails between legs. No other team does this. It just ends up stirring up a hornets' nest.
Yeah, Warney's been shooting his mouth off again. I've heard. He can't help himself. But it seems to be in response to Smith and Boucher coming over here and spinning all sorts of psycho-babble. At the end of the day, crowds everywhere are gonna hate Warne whatever he does. Partly because he's a self-absorbed wanker and partly because he's capable of destroying their team.
Thing with SA is that traditionally there are a lot of similarities with Australia, more so than probably any other team. Including NZ. So IMO this tends to breed a bit more animosity and a deeply-buried, grudging respect.
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Hmm, not too sure about that. Smith is as arrogant as they come, much moreso than his predecessor Pollock, but I think they're just talking themselves up when they go over there. Its a tough tour, they cop a lot from your crowds and a lot of it pretty unpleasant too. The only guy in the team who won any respect was Andre Nel and he's an aggro nutcase!
Nobody disputes the rankings - Aus are top of the heap and have been for as long as I care to remember - each team has their own way of shooting for that top spot. Most seem to roll over and play dead when they come out your way, except for the last test of the series, and its all over by then.
I think its good to have a bit of needle in a series, it stirs the interest! Every time SA go over there, usually there's one of the Aussies in your papers saying it will be 3-0 or 5-0 or they will be targeting such and such batsman for a perceived weakness. This last time it was Langer, before it was Warne, McGrath and Hayden.Didnt one of them say the same before the Ashes last year? Pretty sure they did....
Boucher had a few things to say before the return leg started, mostly to get the crowds going, and you could see in the ODI's a couple of the team in yellow were standing a bit too far in from the boundary! Now Warne's at it again and the howls have begun here about that, but he's still one of the best bowlers ever and people are going to pay money to go see him and give him some stick!
Anyway, it starts Friday at Newlands. Aus are the clear favourites, I havent read anywhere here that SA are going to clean up.
Yeah, I'd agree - grudging respect, its not a foregone conclusion who's going to win whenever they play each other. Not too many games involving aus where you can say that! Rugby is different, that involves NZ mostly, and the arrogance here is shameful. 
