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Score Card - ICC World Cup 2007

Semi Final 2- Australia vs South Africa

Venue : Beausejour Stadium, St Lucia
Date : 25 April 2007 (50-over match)
Toss : South Africa, who chose to bat first
Umpires : Aleem Dar (PAK), Steve Bucknor (WI) and Billy Bowden (NZ)
Referee : Jeff Crowe (NZ)
Result : Australia won by 7 wickets (with 111 balls remaining)
Man of the Match: Glenn McGrath (Australia)
  South Africa innings (50 overs maximum) R B 4s 6s SR
  Graeme Smith b N Bracken 2 5 0 0 40.00
AB de Villiers c A Gilchrist b S Tait 15 34 3 0 44.12
Jacques Kallis b G McGrath 5 9 1 0 55.56
Herschelle Gibbs c A Gilchrist b S Tait 39 49 6 0 79.59
Ashwell Prince c A Gilchrist b G McGrath 0 2 0 0 0.00
Mark Boucher c M Hayden b G McGrath 0 1 0 0 0.00
Justin Kemp not out 49 91 4 1 53.85
Andrew Hall c A Gilchrist b S Tait 3 8 0 0 37.50
Shaun Pollock c & b B Hogg 5 13 1 0 38.46
Andre Nel c M Clarke b S Tait 8 41 1 0 19.51
Charl Langeveldt b S Watson 6 10 1 0 60.00
  Extras (lb 4, w 13) 17
  Total (all out; 43.5 overs; 199 mins) 149
Fall of Wickets
1-7 (Smith, 2.3 ov), 2-12 (Kallis, 5.3 ov), 3-26 (de Villiers, 8.5 ov), 4-27 (Prince, 9.4 ov), 5-27 (Boucher, 9.5 ov), 6-87 (Gibbs, 22.5 ov), 7-93 (Hall, 26.1 ov), 8-103 (Pollock, 29.4 ov), 9-130 (Nel, 40.1 ov), 10-149 (Langeveldt, 43.5 ov)
Bowling (Australia) O M R W Econ
Nathan Bracken 7 2 15 1 2.14  
Glenn McGrath 8 1 18 3 2.25 (1w)
Shaun Tait 10 0 39 4 3.90 (5w)
Shane Watson 8.5 0 49 1 5.54  
Brad Hogg 10 2 24 1 2.40 (3w)
 
  Australia innings (target: 150 runs from 50 overs) R B 4s 6s SR
  Adam Gilchrist b C Langeveldt 1 5 0 0 20.00
Matthew Hayden c G Smith b S Pollock 41 60 4 0 68.33
Ricky Ponting b A Nel 22 25 2 0 88.00
Michael Clarke not out 60 86 8 0 69.77
Andrew Symonds not out 18 16 3 0 112.50
Michael Hussey            
Shane Watson            
Brad Hogg            
Nathan Bracken            
Shaun Tait            
Glenn McGrath            
  Extras (lb 5, w 3, nb 3) 11
  Total (3 wickets; 31.3 overs; 146 mins) 153
Fall of Wickets
1-1 (Gilchrist, 1.1 ov), 2-44 (Ponting, 8.6 ov), 3-110 (Hayden, 24.4 ov)
Bowling (South Africa) O M R W Econ
  5 1 16 1 3.20  
  6 0 34 1 5.66 (1nb, 1w)
  5 1 20 0 4.00 (1nb, 1w)
  7 1 31 1 4.42 (1w)
  6.3 0 43 0 6.61 (1nb)
  2 0 4 0 2.00