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| Venue | SuperSport Park, Centurion on 29th March 2009 (20-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | South Africa won by 17 runs |
| Umpires | M Erasmus, BG Jerling |
| TV umpire | RE Koertzen |
| Referee | JJ Crowe (New Zealand) |
| Reserve Umpire | ZTA Ndamane |
| Player of the Match | RE van der Merwe |
| Articles | Johan Botha leads South Africa to series win |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RJ Peterson | b Hopes | 34 | 27 | 44 | 3 | 2 | 125.93 |
| HH Gibbs | b Bracken | 20 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 153.85 |
| AB de Villiers | c White b Laughlin | 0 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| JP Duminy | b Harwood | 23 | 28 | 42 | 1 | - | 82.14 |
| RE van der Merwe | c Haddin b Harwood | 48 | 30 | 28 | 2 | 4 | 160.00 |
| JA Morkel | not out | 14 | 10 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 140.00 |
| +MV Boucher | not out | 9 | 8 | 12 | - | 1 | 112.50 |
| *J Botha | did not bat | ||||||
| JL Ontong | did not bat | ||||||
| YA Abdulla | did not bat | ||||||
| J Louw | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 84 minutes, 20 overs) | 156 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-22 (Gibbs, 2.5 ov), 2-24 (de Villiers, 3.6 ov), 3-71 (Peterson, 10.3 ov), 4-96 (Duminy, 14.6 ov), 5-133 (van der Merwe, 17.3 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Bracken | 4 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 24.00 | 11.00 |
| Harwood | 4 | 0 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.25 |
| Laughlin | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 8.00 |
| Hopes | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 6.50 |
| Hussey | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |
| White | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.00 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MJ Clarke | b Botha | 27 | 33 | 43 | 2 | - | 81.82 |
| DA Warner | b Morkel | 20 | 15 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 133.33 |
| *RT Ponting | c Boucher b Abdulla | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 |
| DJ Hussey | c Gibbs b van der Merwe | 27 | 18 | 34 | 3 | 1 | 150.00 |
| CJ Ferguson | run out (van der Merwe->Botha) | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| CL White | c Duminy b Botha | 23 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 104.55 |
| +BJ Haddin | not out | 16 | 13 | 24 | - | 1 | 123.08 |
| JR Hopes | c Morkel b Louw | 18 | 15 | 15 | - | 1 | 120.00 |
| NW Bracken | c de Villiers b Louw | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| SM Harwood | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| B Laughlin | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 nb, 5 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 82 minutes, 20 overs) | 139 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37 (Warner, 4.5 ov), 2-38 (Ponting, 5.2 ov), 3-63 (Clarke, 10.1 ov), 4-63 (Ferguson, 10.2 ov), 5-101 (Hussey, 14.4 ov), 6-106 (White, 15.6 ov), 7-131 (Hopes, 19.2 ov), 8-138 (Bracken, 19.5 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Louw | 4 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12.00 | 9.00 |
| Abdulla | 3 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 2 | - | 18.00 | 5.33 |
| Morkel | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 1 | - | 18.00 | 8.00 |
| van der Merwe | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 7.50 |
| Botha | 4 | 0 | 16 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 4.00 |
| Peterson | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |