Du Plessis misses record-breaking century

464 Number of runs scored by Faf du Plessis in this series, the most runs scored (max 5 matches) in an ODI triangular or quadrangular tournament. There are only three other batsmen who have scored 400-plus runs in such a tournament - Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva. No batsman has scored more than three hundreds in any multi-team ODI tournament, including World Cups - in the final, du Plessis fell four short of a record fourth century.

27 Number of innings in which Aaron Finch got to 1000 ODI runs. This is the third fastest by an Australian. The joint Australian record is held by Greg Chappell and George Bailey, both of whom needed only 26 innings to reach that mark. Shaun Marsh and Michael Hussey needed 27, as many as Finch. The overall record is 21 innings, jointly held by Vivian Richards, Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott and Quinton de Kock.

71 Number of runs posted by James Faulkner and Mitchell Starc for the ninth wicket today. This is the highest ninth wicket partnership for Australia against South Africa. Also, this is Australia's fourth highest ninth wicket partnership after losing the first eight wickets for less than 150. Across countries, there have been six century partnerships from this situation, four of those by India, and one each by England and Sri Lanka.

220 The lowest score that South Africa have failed to chase in an ODI tournament final. This was in the Titan Cup against India, at Mumbai, in 1996. There have been seven instances of South Africa failing to chase down a total in an ODI tournament, three times against Australia, but South Africa cruised to the 218 run target that they were set today.

1 Number of times before today that Wayne Parnell had batted above No. 7 in an ODI. The only exception in his 20 previous ODI innings being a game against New Zealand at Auckland in 2012, when he open the batting and scored 27, during an 80-run opening partnership with Hashim Amla. Today's experiment was not as successful though, with Parnell only managing to score 6 off 24 balls.

0 Number of times while batting first that Australia have scored 250 against South Africa after being five down for less than 150. Today was no different. Australia have been in this situation against South Africa on 10 occasions, and have finished up on less than 200 on five of those instances, with 240 being the highest score that they have posted.

12 Number of years since South Africa have won an ODI tournament final. The last ODI tournament that they won was the VB series in 2002, also involving Australia and New Zealand. Since then they have lost two finals, the Morocco Cup to Sri Lanka and NatWest series to England, with the TVS Cup final against India being washed out.