Australia vs South Africa, 2nd ODI at Mackay, AUS vs SA, Aug 22 2025 - Match Result

South Africa win by 84 runs and take a 2-0 series lead. Another excellent performance from the visitors, set up by their middle order then an terrific outing from the bowling attack. Ngidi now has 26 wickets at 16.96 against Australia. Questions mount over Australia's batting. That's four innings in a row at home where they've been bowled out under 200. And only once before have they been bowled out four times in a row at home in ODIs (thanks to Namooh for that one). Eyes will be on a few players in the final match on Sunday. Presentations shortly.

Lungi Nigdi is player of the match: "I definitely had to step up. We know [Kagiso] is the spearhead of our attack but when he went down I knew I'd have big shoes to fill. It's been a test character this tournament, the guys in the powerplay have put us under pressure every single over. So it was really nice to find some assistance tonight and make that count. We gave them a chance and they made it count...so was a little bit nervous but felt like there was a bit of assistance and cross-seam seemed to be two different paces so just trying to nail that down and break the game up which worked quite nicely."

Mitchell Marsh "Yeah, disappointing. Thought as a collective we pegged them back beautifully with the ball and on that wicket probably below par but as a batting unit just couldn't get the job done tonight. Thought they bowled exceptionally well, it swung early, and yeah they outplayed us."

Aiden Markram "It's a great feeling. Never an easy feat coming to Australia and wrapping up the series in two games so really good from the boys, sure they are pretty chuffed and pretty pumped up about it. [Ngidi] It's always nice when it goes from one to the next and you don't feel like you have to rely on one or two guys. Incredibly happy for Lungs, the way he pulled it off for us tonight, the sort of wicket where there was a bit more pace and bounce and thought our two quick boys really showed off.[Dropped catches] In my opinion there's still quite a bit for us still to do and work on, drops catches is one of those things that happens but it's really hard taking ten poles so taking 13 or 14 we are making life quite tough for ourselves. But got it done in the end. Still a bit of work to do before we become a really good team."

So that just about wraps things up for tonight. Firdose's report will be updated shortly to bring together the full story. We'll be back on Sunday for the final match of the series but for now, from Gnasher and Alex, it's goodbye.

Second slip comes to midwicket

Can Ngidi finish it with five? Dinesh: "Somebody remind Australia WC 2027 is very far away. They don't need to start under performing 2 yrs from the trophy to lift it!!!"

Australia quickly sliding to another heavy defeat. South Africa have been excellent

Karthik: "Thanks Amar.. Do you have anything on Ellis and Zampa???" Hopefully South Africa don't need much help

Ngidi having a very big night. South Africa closing in on a series win. Can Australia reach 200? Two slips in

Amar: "Bartlett is no mug with the bat. He had a couple of blistering knocks in the MLC not too long ago :)" Oh yeah, he can bat

Runs required under 100 now