Anyways, numbers stats all are meant to be broken as we see best of players like Reeza Hendricks, Quinton de Kock and Johnson Charles. It was 5th ODI between Australia and South Africa at Johannesburg when the latter chased down 435 runs in an ODI game which was quite a phenomenon thing at the time.
But one legend said a thing after Australia put up 435 runs on board, it was Jacques Kallis and he said that Australia were 15 runs short even after scoring 435 runs.
While talking in post match talk, man of the moment Reeze Hendricks said, “When we walked off the field, KG (Kagiso Rabada) actually said that they were 10 runs short.”
“We managed to get over the line and play this incredible game and obviously what obviously today and I’ve suggested that’s equivalent to the 48 games, so to be part of it is quite good.”
When a team batting first scores 258 runs on board, usually they are more confident and happy side to defend such a total. When Johnson Charles was putting up a freak show of batting, Shaun Pollock even asked Rassie Van der Dussen what will be the total South Africa will be happy to chase. Van der Dussen said anything about 240 and Proteas will be in chance to chase it down.
Well that was kind of confidence team has and it speaks of how much they know about the conditions here as well. Reeza Hendricks emphasized the same point in his post match talk, saying “Everyone in the changing room was quiet confident that this is really a good wicket. So We never doubted ourselves any any at any stage.”
“We we believed it was a good wicket and we believed we had the the batters in the in the team to go out there and and chased the score down obviously, which we did. So it’s good to come on the right side of it,” Hendricks concluded.