Australia captain Aaron Finch won the toss and chose to field first and they went on to restrict SA to a below par score of 118/9 in their 20 overs where their batters once again disappointed.
Aiden Markram was SA’s best batter with 40, followed by Kagiso Rabada on 19, and Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Adam Zampa ended their bowling shifts with two wickets each for Australia. To put SA’s poor batting display in perspective: with the exception of Markram and Rabada , the combined score of the rest of the SA batters was 53 runs.
Rabada was back in the thick of things in the fifth over when he claimed the wicket of the mightily dangerous David Warner who was caught by Klaasen at backward point for 14 runs.
We're used to such presentation by them. On warm up matches they're brilliant and always disapoint when it matters.
Yes it's disappointing to lose the 1st match...but we'll grow amd learn from this, there's 4 more matches to come...I think every team will lose at least 1 match...
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