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Heading into the test, the teams played in tri-series finals, which Australia won 2–1. [44] On the day of the third final, the Australian touring squad confirmed their spot in the Austral-Asia Cup that was to be played after the South African tour. [45] [46] After winning the toss and electing to bat, Australian players Taylor, Slater and Boon all recorded half-centuries before getting out trying to raise the tempo of their innings. At the end of the day, Australia ended at 4/240 with Donald being the only multi-wicket taker with two wickets. [47] After ending the first day on 32, Steve Waugh played with impressive confidence on his way to 164 runs as he and Allan Border broke the Australian record for the fifth wicket partnership against South Africa with 208. [48] During that partnership though, Border became the first cricket player to get to 11,000 tests runs on his way to 84 as he got Australia to declare at 7/469. [49] In response, South Africa only just avoided the follow on as they scored 273 for their first innings. Andrew Hudson was the South African's top scorer with 90 as he got them to 2/173 with Gary Kirsten (43) and Peter Kirsten (79) contributing. This was undone, though, by an inspirational spell from Steve Waugh who took four wickets in his spell. This was due to not taking the new ball at the end of the 80th over with Border keeping Waugh on. [50] [51]
Not forcing the follow on, the Australians struggled in the second innings with only Taylor (38) and Boon (38) resisting the South Africans as they limped to 6/124 before Border declared with 25 minutes after the third session of Day 4. The final hour of the fourth day saw Warne pick up two wickets for only two runs as the South Africans chasing 320 to win the series ended the day on 3/18 as Cronje and Kirsten both fell for single figures. [52] Fanie de Villiers (30) and Kirsten (42) held the Australians out with a three-hour partnership for 82 runs as their opponents made 12 changes of seven different bowlers before de Villiers fell from a catch from Paul Reiffel at mid-off. [53] That wicket would see a collapse as the South Africans lost their remaining seven wickets for only 29 runs to be bowled out for 129 and give Australia the win by 191 runs. During this collapse, Warne who got his 100th test wicket, while Healy claimed his 200th victim in test cricket with a splendid diving catch of McDermott. [54]
After the three tests were played, Australian batsman, Mark Taylor ended the series with the most runs with 304 runs from five innings which included his 170 in the drawn test match at Melbourne. He finished ahead of fellow team-mate, Michael Slater (185 runs) and South African batsman Gary Kirsten (175 runs) who rounded out the top three. In the bowling area, Australian spinner, Shane Warne ended up as the leading wicket taker of the series with 18 wickets which included a 7/56 from the first innings in the Sydney test match. He finished ahead of fellow team-mate, Craig McDermott with South African pace bowler, Allan Donald rounding out the top three. [55]
Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Not Out | Runs | HS | Average | 100s | 50s |
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Mark Taylor | Australia | 3 | 5 | 0 | 304 | 170 | 60.80 | 1 | 1 |
Michael Slater | Australia | 3 | 5 | 0 | 185 | 92 | 37.00 | 0 | 2 |
Gary Kirsten | South Africa | 3 | 5 | 0 | 174 | 67 | 34.80 | 0 | 1 |
Steve Waugh | Australia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 165 | 164 | 82.50 | 1 | 0 |
Andrew Hudson | South Africa | 3 | 5 | 1 | 157 | 90 | 39.25 | 0 | 2 |
Player | Team | Matches | Overs | Runs | Wickets | Average | BBI |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shane Warne | Australia | 3 | 175.1 | 307 | 18 | 17.06 | 7/56 |
Craig McDermott | Australia | 3 | 115.1 | 246 | 14 | 17.57 | 4/33 |
Allan Donald | South Africa | 3 | 127.2 | 373 | 13 | 28.69 | 4/83 |
Fanie de Villiers | South Africa | 3 | 132.3 | 311 | 11 | 28.27 | 6/43 |
Steve Waugh | Australia | 1 | 24 | 30 | 4 | 7.50 | 4/26 |
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