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SA equal world duck record
Wisden CricInfo staff - January 22, 2002
There were six ducks in the South African innings, with Herschelle Gibbs, Boeta Dippenaar, Jonty Rhodes, Lance Klusener, Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini all failing to score. This equals the one-day record: six Pakistan batsmen have gone for nought 0 on two occasions - when they were bowled out for 43 by West Indies at Cape Town in 1992-93, and also when they made 213 for 9 against England at Edgbaston in 1997.
Andy Bichel took 5 for 19, his first five-wicket haul in one-day internationals. His previous-best figures were 3 for 17, against Pakistan at Hobart in 1996-97. Bichel is playing in his 20th one-dayer.
South Africa were all out for 106, their third-lowest total in 244 one-dayers. Their lowest total is 69, also against Australia, also at Sydney, in 1993-94, and they made 101 against Pakistan at Sharjah in 1999-2000.
Of the top eight South African batsmen, six managed just one run between them.
Mark Waugh became the seventh person to make fifty half-centuries in ODIs, after Inzamam-ul-Haq (60), Mohammad Azharuddin (58), Desmond Haynes (57), Aravinda de Silva (57), Sachin Tendulkar (53) and Javed Miandad (50).
Waugh's 55 not out was his first half-century in one-dayers against South Africa since March 1997 - 19 matches ago. He made 115 not out in the second ODI at Port Elizabeth in 1996-97.
It was also Waugh's first fifty in nine ODIs. Since making 133 not out against India at Poona on March 28, 2001, his run of scores had been: 47, 46, 0, dnb, 36, 1, 0 and 15.
Australia's win was their 20th in the last 24 ODIs at Sydney.
Rob Smyth is on the staff of Wisden.com.
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