Holy SH!!. That is massive.. time to crack out the Ricky Ponting cricket and replicate that effort :-) Go Aussies.

Well, I'll be buggered. I'm definitely eating MY words, but then usually (as in every single occasion in history before today) you're pretty safe defending 430-plus!!!!!!

Well done, great chase by the South Africans. Anon, I agree, Mick Lewis is a hack at the best of times - useful at club and state level but well below international class. Why the hell was he bowling all those overs at the death when Brett Lee and Stuart Clark were available, had overs to spare, and weren't getting carted around at 12 an over.

Sometimes stats hide what really happened, but not in Lewis's case - he bowled tripe, Ponting had too much faith in him (WTF!!!???) and the Aussies lost the plot.

And then the champs, oops, sorry chumps then go and lose it... WTF

Sounds like one of the great games of all time. Need to fid Foxtel to see the highlights.

mick lewis was slapped for 113 runs of 10 cant work out why hes still there 4 matches ago he got slapped for 98 of 8

What's been happening with the Australian side? A lot of new names that I don't recognise and who underperform. Are they not taking the tour seriously?

problem has consitantly been Hohns he favours certain factions within the cricketing community, should have heard the server he got by fellow selector hughes basically saying even though they agreed on a certain bowling squad because hohns has the final say as the head selector he basically dismisses the other selectors input

That was an absolute disgrace to watch (even though it was pretty exciting). How can you not successfully defend such a massive total? Lewis is an absolute joke, and I can't see how they could possibly justify having a hack like him playing instead of Gillespie, who can actually bowl. And what sort of stupid captain would bowl Lewis instead of Lee in the 47th over? It's time the selectors stopped their eastern states bias and gave S.A. players a go. Even if Gillespie were still to be overlooked, why not give Rofe a go? Surely his line and length style bowling and height could make him a potential heir to McGrath's throne?

Gibbs on 130, Nathan Bracken at mid-off dropped a sitter off a Lewis full-toss... - Gibbs made 175.

There is a lot to be said about Lewis being in the team, but overall i think the whole game was just a freak occurence.

Look I am an SA person and agree that more SA players should be there but saying that you can't defend 435 is not fair. Just remember that Aus made the score so there is no reason the other team can not make it. I agree with pickles on this occasion sayihg it was a freak occurance. In saying that, the 20 20 games have been having big numbers, so it was a matter of time before a score was put up like this. Who would have thought it would have been put twice in one game!

I'm quite glad the aussies got beaten. Cricket can get bloody boring when australia win by 159 runs (again)

It's good for the competition i think.

They lost the series 3-2 so how can you say it is boring when they win all the time.

To Spansh Inquisition

"It's time the selectors stopped their eastern states bias and gave S.A. players a go"

I agree with you here, but......how many Victorians were in that side?

I bet you would find more NSW and QLD players

The Australian selectors are fools.....shit, when you pick Martyn over Hodge for the Test Matches

The One Day loss was the best thing to ever happen

I stayed up till 3.00am watching it on Fox Sports......was the best game i will probably EVER witness