Australia and South Africa in World Cup. The two teams are known for their famous semifinal match in 1999 World Cup.
Lets rewind the history and see what happened between these teams in World Cup –
1992 Benson & Hedges World Cup – South Africa won the 6th match against Kangaroos in Benson n Hedges World Cup by 9 wickets.
Batting first Australia only managed 179 runs. Proteas chased it and spend considerable time in the middle as they took 46.5 overs to get to those 179 runs.
1999 ICC World Cup – South Africa faced Australia 2 times in 4 days.
First in Super stage. South Africa batted first and scored 271 runs, which was chased down by Kangaroos in the final over.
Steve Waugh played a captain innings and made unbeaten 120 of 110 balls.
The two teams came face to face in the second semifinal of the World Cup.
After hitting 2 back to back boundaries, South Africa needed just one run to win the match.
Klusener played third ball dot and Alan Donald on the non striker end took a start and was run out if ball would have hit the stumps.
Next ball, Klusener played the ball straight and he ran, but Donald has this fear from the previous ball, he didn’t run till the ball passed him, and when he ran, it was already too late.
There was sure shot run there if he would have just run when Klusener hit the ball.
What a heart failure kind of day for Proteas and Proteas fans.
2007 ICC World Cup – Australia batted first and posted a huge total of 377 runs. In reply, South Africa tried hard but only managed 294 runs. Revenge still not taken.
2019 ICC World Cup – South Africa finally found themselves on winning side as they beat Australia by 10 runs in the 45th match of the World Cup.
Batting first, South Africa made 325 runs which turned out to be just enough for Kangaroos as they fell short by 10 runs.
