#T H R I L L E R!

The match in a tweet: T H R I L L E R!

A world-record partnership of 161 by Warner and Maxwell help Australia chase down 205 from the final ball!

The Bull

He was raging. In his new role at No.4, Warner provided the patience, the power and the performance to hand Australia a remarkable win. The vice-captain was savage on anything dropped short, climbing all over any attempted bouncer and sending it beyond the boundary. But Warner did best was supress the spin of Imran Tahir. Tahir was outstanding on Friday night on a dry, turning deck in Durban, but on a road at the Wanderers, the leg-spinner wasn't nearly as effective and Warner made him pay. The 29-year-old clubbed Tahir almost exclusively on the leg-side, and to be more accurate, between long-on and mid-wicket. He finished with 37 runs from the 14 balls he faced from the leggie, taking three fours and as many sixes with him. It took another special delivery from Rabada to end his stay on 77 from 40 balls, but the damage was done.

The Big Show

He hates that nickname, but Maxwell produced his best knock for Australia in T20 cricket when his side needed it the most. With a daunting target ahead of him when he walked to the crease in at 3-32 in the sixth over, Maxwell was on song from ball one, clobbering anything within his hitting zone, which is vast to say the least. Known for his innovative stroke play, Maxwell was relatively orthodox for most of his innings, hitting with the spin and picking the gaps. But with his mojo flowing, you knew the party tricks would come out sooner rather than later, and what a trick it was – a reverse-ramp flip that flew one bounce into the third man fence. He produced one more audacious shot – this one a more textbook, if you can call it that, reverse sweep off Chris Morris – before his brilliant innings ended going for another boundary, out for 75 off 43 balls.

www.cricket.com.au/news/match-report/aus...ne-watson/2016-03-07?

Despite bowler injuries ... AUS a serous contender in T20 WC....... know you're not a fan of T/20 .. but as an AUS fan, surely you'll be following ?? ...

of course I'll be 100% behind these blokes Cal lickety cricket and all

We can surely put up some serious runs but the bowling is so thin right now it's worrisome

Amazing turnaround by Warner and Maxi. They had an uphill task chasing 170 runs at 12 an over, with their team reeling 3 wickets down. But much can also be said of the absolutely atrocious bowling by South Africa. After Rabada and Steyn had done the hard workk up front Morris and Wiese simply gave away too many runs. Wiese bowled way too many full tosses and hence had to end up giving 58 runs from his 4 overs. In the end Rabada had given some hope but Faulkner kept his cool to take them over the line.

I saw that match, it was of the most thrilling run chase in history. Giving a 200+ target in 20 overs is like you have already won the thing. After few quick wickets, the now famous partnership of 150+ run in only about 10 overs almost sealed the deal for Australia. But it collapsed att he end, and on the last ball, there was 2 run required which James Faulkner managed it. It was thrilling till the end.