It was the 1591st ODI in cricket history.It was the 42nd match between these two sides. The record now reads: South Africa 21, Australia 20,tied 1.It was the 18th match between these two sides in South Africa.
Both teams have won nine matches each.It was South Africa's 197th and Australia's 462nd match.Umpires Rudi Koertzen and Cyril Mitchley both were officiating
in their 62nd match.Shaun Pollock was playing his 100th match.He became seventh
South African and 103rd player overall to do so.Steve Waugh has a tally of 1728 runs from 76 appearances at
the end of this match as captain,which takes him past Greg
Chappell's run-aggregate of 1718 from 49 matches. Now only
Allan Border (4439 in 178) and Mark Taylor (2098 in 67) have
scored more runs as Australia's captain than Steve Waugh.Shaun Pollock's figures (4-37) were the second best by a South
African captain in ODIs.The best,however, still remains Hansie
Cronje's 4 for 33 against Zimbabwe at Harare on 22-10-1995.
Incidentally the previous best by a South African captain against
Australia were 2 for 15 at Wellington on 15- 02-1995.Pollock became fifth captain to capture four or more wickets
in a match against Australia after Duncan Fletcher, Kapil Dev,
Wasim Akram and Sanath Jayasuriya. Kapil and Akram have done
so on two separate occasions each,while Jayasuriya enjoys the
best figures as captain (5 for 28 at Galle on 22-08-1999).Shane Warne became first bowler to capture 50 wickets in a
career against South Africa when he dismissed Hall. India's
Anil Kumble with 40 wickets in 30 matches and Pakistan's
Waqar Younis with 39 wickets in 22 matches are placed second
and third.The seventh wicket unbroken partnership of 87 runs between
Mark Boucher and Lance Klusener was South Africa's best for
this wicket position against Australia in all ODIs. This
obliterated the previous record stand of 73 runs between
Hansie Cronje and Shaun Pollock at this same venue on
08-04-1997.The partnership was also the second highest for South Africa
for this wicket against all countries after the 114 runs
partnership between the same pair against India at Nagpur on
19-03-2000.Lance Klusener won his 17th MoM award in his 86th match.Now
he is just one short of Hansie Cronje's South African record
of 18 awards.At the end of series:
South Africa's overall ODI record: played 197,won 122,lost 69,tied 1 and abandoned 5. Australia's overall ODI record :played 462,won 260,lost 185, tied 5 and abandoned 12. Shaun Pollock's captaincy record : played 4,won 2,lost 2. Steve Waugh's captaincy record :played 76,won 47,lost 26,tied 1 and abandoned 2. 