Australia had to tolerate a 2nd defeat in a row and this time against South Africa. The warm up match played in Bangalore on the 15th of February, Tuesday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium was a disappointment for the Australian fans as they were beaten by 7 wickets. The defeat gave rise to some open ended questions against the world champions as the performance in both the warm up matches did not counterpart the standards of Australia itself.
Australia won the toss and decided to bat first but the choice went wrong and the team was all out in just 47.1 overs. Top score was in the credit of Michel Clarke with 73 runs followed by 51 runs of Ricky Ponting. No other batsman was able to contribute a considerable score on the board and gave South Africa a chase of 217 runs.
A confident start of the South Africans made the journey easy. Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla both retired out after making their valuable contributions of 65 and 60 runs respectively to the team. An excellent and deserving win of South Africa gave them confidence and also provided them a chance to devise strategies against the forthcoming matches.
S.A is better than Aussies if they can handle the pressure well like the Aussies there is only 1 weak area in S.A they have lack of Good Luck