It was South Africa's 215st and New Zealand's 361st ODI.
It was the 26th match between these two sides. The record now reads: South Africa 16, New Zealand 7, no result 3.
Umpires Dave Orchard and William Diedricks officiated in their 63rd and 28th match respectively.
Lance Klusener by hitting 41 runs off only 18 balls (SR 227.77) recorded the best scoring rate for South Africa by a batsman facing at least 12 balls in an innings. The previous record was in the name of Adrian Kuiper who scored 47 runs off 22 balls (SR 213.64) against Australia at Centurion on 20-02-1994. The following table lists the fastest innings in ODIs:
Fastest Innings in One-Day Internationals (Qualification : minimum 12 balls)
Batsman R/100B Runs BF For Vs Venue Date
Jayasuriya 271.43 76 28 SL Pak Singapore 07-04-1996
Botham 261.54 34 13 Eng NZ OldTrafford 17-07-1978
Symonds A 261.54 34* 13 Aus NZ Dunedin 23-02-2000
Moin Khan 258.33 31* 12 Pak Aus Headingley 23-05-1999
O'Donnell 255.17 74 29 Aus SL Sharjah 02-05-1990
Afridi 255.00 102 40 Pak SL Nairobi(Gym) 04-10-1996
Dujon 245.00 49 20 WI Ind Jamshedpur 07-12-1983
Wasim Akram 240.00 36 15 Pak Aus Adelaide 13-12-1992
Wasim Akram 240.00 36* 15 Pak NZ Wellington 20-12-1995
Border 235.29 40* 17 Aus SA Port Elizabeth 22-02-1994
Wasim Akram 228.57 48* 21 Pak Ind Nagpur 24-03-1987
Klusener 227.77 41* 18 SA NZ Durban 01-11-2000
Dilley 221.43 31* 14 Eng NZ The Oval 09-06-1983
Otis Gibson 220.00 33* 15 WI SL Sharjah 20-10-1995
The wicket of Roger Twose was 100th for Jacques Kallis. He was playing his 113th match. Kallis became the fifth South African after Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Hansie Cronje and Lance Klusener and 55th bowler overall to do so.
With this Kallis also completed the allround double of 3000 runs and 100 wickets. He became the second South African after Hansie Cronje and 11th allrounder overall to reach this landmark. By doing so in only 113 matches Kallis became the quickest in terms of least matches taken beating New Zealand's Chris Cairns' record who took 130 matches to do so. The following table lists the all alrounders with 3000 runs and 100 wickets :
Jacques Kallis won his 15th Man of the match award-his third against New Zealand.Kallis has now equalled Gary Kirsten's record of most awards against New Zealand for South Africa.