Tim David and Josh Hazlewood performed brilliantly for Australia in the match
AUS vs SA: South Africa cricket team is currently on a tour of AUS for the White Ball Series. So, today on 10 August, the first match of the three-match T20 series between the two teams was played at Marrara Cricket Ground, Darwin. Let us tell you that in this match, host AUS has won an easy victory by 17 runs.
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Due to Tim David‘s brilliant innings of 83 runs in the match, AUS set a target of 179 runs for South Africa to win. But when South Africa came out to chase this target, it was all out for 161 runs.
Australia vs South Africa, status of the first T20 match
If we tell you about the match in detail, South Africa won the toss and invited the host team to bat first. After this, batting first, Australia scored 178 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. All-rounder Tim David played a brilliant innings of 83 runs with the help of four fours and 8 sixes in 52 balls for the team. Also, Cameron Green contributed 35 runs.
South Africa have won the toss and elected to bowl first in the first T20I against Australia.#AUSvsSA #MitchellMarsh #AidenMarkram #CricTracker pic.twitter.com/VwRdm6cLci
— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) August 10, 2025
On the other hand, if we talk about South Africa’s bowling, young Quinn Mphaka got the maximum four wickets. Apart from this, Kagiso Rabada got 2, Lungi Ngidi, George Linde and Senuran Muttuswamy got 1-1 wickets.
After this, when South Africa came out to chase the target of 179 runs given by Australia, it could score only 161 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. For the Proteas team, wicketkeeper Ryan Rickelton played an innings of 71 runs, while Tristan Stubbs scored 37 runs, but they could not make their team win.
On the other hand, Australia’s bowling performance was amazing, especially from fast bowler Josh Hazlewood, who took 3 wickets for 27 runs in four overs in the match. Apart from this, Ben Dwrrish got 3 wickets, Adam Zampa got 2 and Glenn Maxwell got 1 wicket.
