Overview
- Australia posted 431/2 in Mackay with Travis Head 142, Mitchell Marsh 100 and Cameron Green 118 not out, then bowled South Africa out for 155 to win by 276 runs.
- Cameron Green’s maiden ODI hundred came off 47 balls, the second-fastest by an Australian in the format.
- Head and Marsh shared a 250-run opening stand, Australia’s highest first-wicket partnership against South Africa.
- Australia’s 431/2 was their second-highest ODI total overall and their highest on home soil.
- Left-arm spinner Cooper Connolly took 5-22 to help seal South Africa’s heaviest ODI defeat by runs, in a match where the visitors rested Lungi Ngidi and Nandre Burger and were without Kagiso Rabada.