The third One Day International between South Africa and Australia takes place at Senwes Park, Potchefstroom on Tuesday and at 2-0 down with three to play the Proteas are up against it.
Australia carried off a 3-0 clean sweep of the T20 series at the start of this tour and they have South Africa under the cosh in the ODI's
The first 2 matches were staged at Bloemfontein and Australia won the series opener last Thursday by 3 wickets. South Africa were bowled out for 222 with Bavuma making 114, Hazlewood took 3 wickets. In reply Australia were in trouble at 113/7 but Labuschagne (80) and Agar (48) took them home with almost 10 overs to spare.
On Saturday the contest proved to be of the one sided variety. Australia posted a whopping 392/8 ( Labuschagne 124, Warner 106). Quinton de Kock, Bavuma, Klaasen and Miller all made scores in the mid to late 40's but nobody kicked on and SA were all out for 269 with Zampa taking 4 wickets.
This was how the sides lined up for the second ODI.
South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Andile Phehlukwayo, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi
* Anrich Nortje has reportedly been ruled out of this next match.
Australia: David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis, Alex Carey (wk), Tim David, Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa
Head to Head
Overall the teams have met 105 times with 51 wins for South Africa and 50 for Australia plus 3 ties and 1 no result
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Over the course of the last decade South Africa have won 2 and lost 1 of 3 ODI's in Potch.
In 2015 SA went down to New Zealand by 8 wickets. In March 2020 they beat Australia by 6 wickets and in March this year they beat West Indies by 4 wickets.
In the aforementioned win over the Windies at this venue the visitors posted 260 all out and the Proteas chased it down in just 29.3 overs with Klaasen (119) top
scoring.
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The Betting - 3rd ODI
At the time of writing South Africa are 5/4 to win the match and Australia are 0.57/1
Quinton de Kock and Bavuma are 33/10 joint favourites to top score for South Africa and Travis Head is 3/1 to do likewise for Australia
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
The Verdict
The Proteas are in need of a boost but the Aussies are the verge of a series victory and it will need a mighty effort by the hosts to avoid another defeat.
Heinrich Klaasen gets a speculative vote to top score for South Africa and Shamsi's 4 wicket haul in Saturday's mauling earns him the vote to be top SA wicket taker.
Bets: Top SA Run Scorer Klaasen at 5/1 with Sportingbet
Top SA Run Wicket Taker Shamsi at 3/1 with Sportingbet
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
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