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Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2016–17
	South Africa	Australia
Dates	30 September 2016 – 12 October 2016
Captains	Faf du Plessis	Steve Smith
One Day International series
Results	South Africa won the 5-match series 5–0
Most runs	Rilee Rossouw (311)	David Warner (386)
Most wickets	Andile Phehlukwayo (8)	Chris Tremain (7)
Player of the series	Rilee Rossouw (SA)

The Australia national cricket team toured South Africa in September and October 2016 playing a series of five One Day Internationals (ODIs) against the hosts and a solitary ODI against Ireland. The Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) raised concerns with Cricket South Africa (CSA) about the fifth ODI being held on Yom Kippur. The fixture went ahead as planned, but the WPCA asked that matches do not clash with religious days in the future.

South Africa won the series against Australia 5–0, the first time that Australia had lost all five matches in a five-match ODI series.

Squads

South Africa	Australia
Faf du Plessis (c) AB de Villiers (c) Kyle Abbott Hashim Amla Farhaan Behardien Quinton de Kock (wk) JP Duminy Imran Tahir David Miller Chris Morris Wayne Parnell Aaron Phangiso Andile Phehlukwayo Dwaine Pretorius Kagiso Rabada Rilee Rossouw Tabraiz Shamsi Dale Steyn	Steve Smith (c) David Warner George Bailey Scott Boland James Faulkner Aaron Finch John Hastings Travis Head Usman Khawaja Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh Joe Mennie Chris Tremain Matthew Wade (wk) Daniel Worrall Adam Zampa

Both James Faulkner and Shaun Marsh were ruled out of the tour due to injury. Marsh was replaced with Usman Khawaja, while no replacement was made for Faulkner. Chris Morris suffered a knee injury ruling him out for two months. He was replaced by Dwaine Pretorius. AB de Villiers was ruled out of series due to elbow injury and was replaced by Rilee Rossouw. AB de Villiers was also ruled of subsequent tour of Australia. Wayne Parnell suffered a rib injury in the second ODI and was ruled out of the rest of the series.

ODI vs Ireland

ODIs vs South Africa

1st ODI

Australia  294/9 (50 overs)	v	South Africa 295/4 (36.2 overs)
George Bailey 74 (90) Andile Phehlukwayo 4/44 (10 overs)		Quinton de Kock 178 (113) Scott Boland 3/67 (7 overs)

• South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
• Quinton de Kock (SA) made his highest score in an ODI and the highest score by any player in an ODI in South Africa.

2nd ODI

South Africa  361/6 (50 overs)	v	Australia 219 (37.4 overs)
Faf du Plessis 111 (93) John Hastings 3/57 (10 overs)		Travis Head 51 (45) Wayne Parnell 3/40 (7 overs)

• Australia won the toss and elected to field.
• Joe Mennie and Chris Tremain (Aus) both made their ODI debuts.

3rd ODI

Australia  371/6 (50 overs)	v	South Africa 372/6 (49.2 overs)
David Warner 117 (107) Imran Tahir 2/54 (10 overs)		David Miller 118* (79) John Hastings 2/79 (10 overs)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• This was the second-highest successful run chase in ODIs.

4th ODI

Australia  167 (36.4 overs)	v	South Africa 168/4 (35.3 overs)
Matthew Wade 52 (58) Kyle Abbott 4/40 (8 overs)		Faf du Plessis 69 (87) Chris Tremain 2/48 (10 overs)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI

South Africa  327/8 (50 overs)	v	Australia 296 (48.2 overs)
Rilee Rossouw 122 (118) Joe Mennie 3/49 (10 overs)		David Warner 173 (136) Imran Tahir 2/42 (10 overs)

• South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
• David Warner made the highest total for an Australian batsman against South Africa in an ODI.

References

1. "South Africa to tour Australia, New Zealand next season". Retrieved 17 June 2016.
2. "Western Province raises concerns over fifth ODI scheduling". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
3. "Bowling woes grip Australia as whitewash looms". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
4. "South Africa pick Phehlukwayo for Australia ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 6 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
5. "Australia pick three uncapped quicks for SA ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
6. ^ "AB de Villiers ruled out of Australia tour". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
7. "Injured Shaun Marsh and Faulkner out of South Africa tour". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
8. "Knee injury sidelines Morris for two months". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
9. "Rib injury puts Parnell out of remainder of one-day series". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
10. "De Kock's stunning onslaught". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
11. "Second biggest chase in ODI history". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
12. "A rare Australia whitewash, and Warner's stellar year". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.

External links

• Series home at ESPNCricinfo

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