Overview
- Lungi Ngidi took 5 for 42 and earned Player of the Match honors as Australia were dismissed in 37.4 overs.
- Matthew Breetzke scored 88 and Tristan Stubbs added 74 to set 277 at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay.
- Josh Inglis resisted with 87 off 74 balls, but scant support left Australia all out for 193.
- The victory delivers a 2-0 lead to South Africa, with Sunday’s third ODI in Mackay now a dead rubber.
- Squad and form factors loomed large, with Temba Bavuma rested, Kagiso Rabada out injured, Prenelan Subrayen unavailable after a cited action, and Australia sliding to seven losses in eight ODIs with four straight sub-200 home totals.