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| Venue | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on 27th January 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 14 runs |
| Umpires | SJ Davis, DB Hair |
| TV umpire | IS Thomas |
| Referee | RS Madugalle |
| Scorers | ME Gorham (Australia), R Kelleher (South Africa) |
| Player of the Match | RT Ponting |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ME Waugh | b Klusener | 21 | 38 | 61 | 2 | - | 55.26 |
| +AC Gilchrist | b McMillan | 6 | 15 | 19 | - | - | 40.00 |
| RT Ponting | st Richardson b Adams | 76 | 96 | 140 | 6 | - | 79.17 |
| DS Lehmann | c Rhodes b Symcox | 10 | 22 | 23 | - | - | 45.45 |
| *SR Waugh | run out (McMillan->Pollock) | 71 | 88 | 96 | 3 | 1 | 80.68 |
| MG Bevan | not out | 36 | 30 | 48 | 1 | - | 120.00 |
| TM Moody | c Bacher b McMillan | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| IJ Harvey | c Bacher b McMillan | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 |
| PR Reiffel | not out | 11 | 9 | 20 | - | - | 122.22 |
| SK Warne | did not bat | ||||||
| P Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 10 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 209 minutes, 50 overs) | 247 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Gilchrist, 5.2 ov), 2-58 (ME Waugh, 15.2 ov), 3-79 (Lehmann, 20.1 ov), 4-181 (Ponting, 40.2 ov), 5-210 (SR Waugh, 44.6 ov), 6-210 (Moody, 45.2 ov), 7-212 (Harvey, 45.5 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 10 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 3.30 |
| McMillan | 10 | 0 | 47 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 20.00 | 4.70 |
| Kallis | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.67 |
| Klusener | 10 | 0 | 59 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 60.00 | 5.90 |
| Symcox | 10 | 0 | 35 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.50 |
| Adams | 7 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 6.57 |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| G Kirsten | run out (Ponting) | 3 | 10 | 18 | - | - | 30.00 |
| AM Bacher | c Gilchrist b Reiffel | 45 | 51 | 52 | 4 | - | 88.24 |
| JH Kallis | hit wkt b Reiffel | 14 | 21 | 36 | - | - | 66.67 |
| *WJ Cronje | st Gilchrist b Warne | 5 | 10 | 15 | - | - | 50.00 |
| JN Rhodes | c and b ME Waugh | 29 | 44 | 72 | 1 | - | 65.91 |
| SM Pollock | st Gilchrist b Bevan | 28 | 45 | 43 | 3 | - | 62.22 |
| L Klusener | c SR Waugh b Moody | 46 | 42 | 56 | 3 | - | 109.52 |
| PL Symcox | run out (Ponting) | 22 | 36 | 53 | - | 1 | 61.11 |
| BM McMillan | run out (SR Waugh->Gilchrist) | 15 | 14 | 31 | 1 | - | 107.14 |
| +DJ Richardson | c Ponting b Reiffel | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | 25.00 |
| PR Adams | not out | 15 | 12 | 15 | 2 | - | 125.00 |
| Extras | (3 b, 6 lb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 204 minutes, 48.1 overs) | 233 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Kirsten, 5.5 ov), 2-63 (Bacher, 13.3 ov), 3-64 (Kallis, 13.5 ov), 4-72 (Cronje, 16.5 ov), 5-122 (Pollock, 29.2 ov), 6-139 (Rhodes, 31.5 ov), 7-191 (Klusener, 42.1 ov), 8-202 (Symcox, 44.2 ov), 9-204 (Richardson, 45.1 ov), 10-233 (McMillan, 48.1 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wilson | 10 | 1 | 55 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.50 |
| ME Waugh | 6 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 5.17 |
| Reiffel | 9 | 0 | 40 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 4.44 |
| Moody | 9 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 2.89 |
| Warne | 9.1 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 1 | - | 55.00 | 4.69 |
| Bevan | 5 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.80 |