So that’s the early lead to the South Africans, with two matches to play. A serious comeback, especially with the ball. Game two is on Sunday, and we’ll be with you again then.

Temba Bavuma is more cheery. “I think all around it was a good fight from the batters and the bowlers, looking at how both innings started in the first innings, we were under pressure.”

Mitch Marsh looks like he’s just rolled in at 10am after an all-nighter. Fairly blank stare. “Pretty disappointed,” he says, before saying that the other lot were better. “Marco Jansen was hard to bowl to, especially with that short boundary, so credit where credit’s due.”

This is about as annoyed as I can remember seeing him, though. “I sound like a broken record,” he says, while lamenting that they haven’t been building partnerships.

“I’ve been batting four for the last year, so I’m used to that position,” says player of the match Matthew Breetzke, who used to open for South Africa.

40th over: Australia 224-8 (Ellis 3, Zampa 2) The team talk must have had a slide on surviving Maharaj. Zampa blocks out a maiden in Maharaj’s ninth.

39th over: Australia 224-8 (Ellis 3, Zampa 2) Now it’s Ellis and Zampa knocking singles. With 70-odd to get, they would still be ever so slightly in the game if they still had the overs in hand soaked up in the Renshaw-Starc period.

38th over: Australia 220-7 (Starc 16, Ellis 2) Another over of spin down, this from Fortuin. Ellis plays carefully and finds a single. Starc has a go at one, but it’s saved on the midwicket rope. Only four from the over. Tick, tock.

37th over: Australia 216-7 (Starc 13, Ellis 1) Now it’s just hit and hope for Starc and Ellis. They’re both handy with the bat, but they’ll need to have a go at a few with 82 further runs needed.

36th over: Australia 211-6 (Renshaw 40, Starc 13) Finally, some scoring resumes. Starc edges a couple of runs, then gets off strike. Renshaw tries to take Fortuin downtown, lifting him over mid off, but Rickelton sprinting back is able to slap the ball back into play as it’s bouncing over the rope. Saves two runs. Renshaw keeps strike, six from the over, and perhaps has woken up.

35th over: Australia 205-6 (Renshaw 37, Starc 10) Coetzee now, to Renshaw, who drives nicely but Fortuin at cover stops it. Once, then again. Three more dots. Two runs from the last 21 balls! Another dot, defended. Another, off the inside edge and it starts rolling back towards the stumps. Coetzee finishes the over with a fast yorker, around the wicket at the lefty, angling in. Blocked. Maiden!

Two runs in 24 balls. What has happened here? Australia need 93 from 90.

34th over: Australia 205-6 (Renshaw 37, Starc 10) Bavuma has decided to keep two Maharaj overs in his back pocket. Fortuin is back, two wickets for him already. And again, the Aussies go nowhere! One from the over, and now the equation is above a run a ball. There’s balance, but they’re letting this drift a lot. Two runs from 18 balls? What’s the plan? Do they have bowlers who they think the runs will come from?

33rd over: Australia 204-6 (Renshaw 36, Starc 10) Now Jansen keeps tightening the equation! Renshaw is waiting for a bad ball but doesn’t get one. Has to settle for a single from the fourth of the over. Starc decides not to risk anything from the two remaining. One run from the last 12 balls!

32nd over: Australia 203-6 (Renshaw 35, Starc 10) Maharaj repairs some of the damage with a maiden to Starc. He only has two overs to go, so the Australians are presumably happy to see him off. That includes an absolute jaffa, a ball that rags from outside the lefty’s off stump, into him, clips his back pad and goes just over the off bail.

Target is 95 from 108.

31st over: Australia 203-6 (Renshaw 35, Starc 10) Whack! Mitchell Starc has presumably reasoned that he’s unlikely to see out 20 overs, so he might as well try to win the match faster than that. He slaps a pull shot for four, Jansen standing the ball up for that shot through wide long on. Then Jansen oversteps, and from the free hit, Starc is able to lean away from the ball at his body, getting enough leverage to drag it through midwicket to the rope. He turns over the strike, then the South Africans deliver yet another leg-stump gift, and Renshaw tickles it for four!

That’s 14 from the over, and 95 more needed from 114 balls.

30th over: Australia 189-6 (Renshaw 28, Starc 1) Australia needs 109 from 120 balls now. Manageable run rate but the six wickets lose are what matters.

29th over: Australia 185-5 (Renshaw 28, Edwards 5) Bosch owes his spinners a wealth of thanks. Their work to tighten up the innings is allowing him to do some repair work on his figures. Edwards takes four balls to find a single.

28th over: Australia 182-5 (Renshaw 26, Edwards 4) Back after the delay, and Maharaj tightens the screws a little more with a two-run over.

27th over: Australia 180-5 (Renshaw 25, Edwards 3) Bosch gets the chance for a quiet over. Edwards looks solid with his shots for a couple of singles. Needs to bat for a substantial length of time here, at least 15 overs on debut. There’s a delay now because the lights haven’t taken effect yet, as we get deeper into the afternoon on an overcast day.

26th over: Australia 177-5 (Renshaw 24, Edwards 1) Some shocking decision-making by some of the Australians today. They don’t need sixes, haven’t done since Mitch Marsh’s opening assault, but two key batters have fallen trying to hit them.

Australia need 121 from 144 balls. Now that’s quite a lot of work for Renshaw to do with a guy on debut and the bowlers.

25th over: Australia 176-4 (Renshaw 24, Green 5) Bosch is having an absolute shocker. Another spell, two more pies outside the leg stump, and Renshaw pops them both in the oven to heat up for his enjoyment. Consecutive fours through fine leg.

24th over: Australia 165-4 (Renshaw 16, Green 3) That’s quality from Renshaw. He keeps the scoreboard going with a lovely cover drive. So much less visible effort than Connolly’s drives, for a much more convincing effect. Seven runs from Fortuin’s over.

23rd over: Australia 158-4 (Renshaw 11, Green 1) Coetzee hasn’t had a great day, but takes advantage of the situation to get through a two-run over. Every little bit of tightening up helps.

Australia need 140 from 162 balls.

21st over: Australia 152-3 (Connolly 37, Renshaw 7) Pace keeps travelling. Coetzee to Renshaw, who plays a perfect flick off his front pad, the bat just arriving where the ball is arrowing in, and barely a follow-through as the ball speeds through square. Elegant.

20th over: Australia 146-3 (Connolly 36, Renshaw 2) Fortuin here. Spin has been the only threat. How do Australia play the remaining overs of slow bowling? Fortuin has seven after this over, Maharaj six, so that’s 13 of the remaining 30 overs. South Africa don’t have any part-time options in this XI. Fortuin gets milked for five from the over, which will suit Australia fine.

152 needed from 180 balls.

19th over: Australia 141-3 (Connolly 33, Renshaw 0) Coetzee returns. Connolly is driving at the ball so hard, but not always with timing. You hear this loud crack, see the bat whipping through the air, then the ball departs the area more slowly than you’d expect, or finds the fielder. Finally he does find a gap, well behind point this time, for four.

Guy Hornsby emailed in a little while ago. “Afternoon Geoff, afternoon everyone. It’s interesting seeing how the changes in the sides go here. South Africa’s attack is shorn of some world class operators, and Australia’s middle order likewise has a different hue. You feel Renshaw could be key here, with his form from the Zimbabwe series. It’s great to see him get a run too, it feels like forever since he debuted, because it really was!”

Here’s Renshaw for you now.

17th over: Australia 132-2 (Connolly 26, Inglis 2) Josh Inglis next to take up the chase, he’s a confident character, busy right-hander. Australia need 166 from 198 balls.

16th over: Australia 129-1 (Head 36, Connolly 25) More spin now, Bjorn Fortuin with his left-armers, but Connolly the left-hander isn’t too bothered. Drives him through cover for four as well. He’s catching up to Head…

15th over: Australia 124-1 (Head 35, Connolly 21) Marco Jansen comes back… and is summarily dismissed! Connolly isn’t worried about South Africa’s spearhead. Second ball he faces from the tall left-hander, he leans back and swats it square for six. Next ball fuller, next ball driven through the off side for four. Drinks.

14th over: Australia 111-1 (Head 33, Connolly 10) Head continues to look uncomfortable against Maharaj. Tries a couple of shots, blocks a couple, in the end just pinches a single from the over.

13th over: Australia 110-1 (Head 32, Connolly 10) Cooper Connolly finally gets one away, a cover drive to the fence. From whose bowling? Why, from Corbin Bosch, who is not having his day of days.

12th over: Australia 103-1 (Head 31, Connolly 5) Travis Head has not had an easy time of it today, aside from that couple of minutes against Bosch earlier. He gets tangled trying to turn Maharaj square, then pushes a drive for one. Hasn’t timed many balls convincingly, though he has a habit of scratchy innings that still produce runs. Connolly nearly coughs up his wicket again! Squeezes a full ball to short midwicket and it falls centimetres short of being caught! He gets strike back, then plays his first aggressive short in the form of a sweep, but the deep square leg keeps it to one run.

11th over: Australia 99-1 (Head 29, Connolly 3) Suddenly Corbin Bosch’s life has become so much easier. Runs up, lands it on a length, and concedes three singles off his over. Three singles! The stuff of dreams.

10th over: Australia 96-1 (Head 27, Connolly 2) Two left-handers at the crease now, with Connolly to the middle, but his stay almost ends first ball, Maharaj sliding a delivery through him, just beating his stumps, and foxing the keeper too, conceding four byes. The Powerplay ends at 96 for one wicket, Australia almost a third of the way to their target, and more remarkable for the fact the two overs of spin conceded only a dozen of those runs as well as providing the breakthrough.

8th over: Australia 77-0 (Marsh 48, Head 26) Finally South Africa turn to spin, after seven overs of seam. You’d say the previous bowling was toothless, but there were a few good deliveries from Jansen in his first couple of overs! Amazing how quickly it can change with the white ball. Finally Keshav Maharaj buys South Africa get a breather, a quiet over with five runs being nudged about.

7th over: Australia 72-0 (Marsh 46, Head 23) A change in the bowling doesn’t help South Africa. A second boundary for Head, one from the donation box, outside his leg stump and he gets a tickle on it. Fine leg is up inside the circle and the ball goes finer than him. Then Head goes back and pulls through midwicket, cramped for room and doesn’t get all of it, and it’s very close to Bavuma’s dive, but not close enough. Four there, and another four as he gets a decent enough ball angled slightly across him, close to the body, but Head still manages to crash it through backward point.

Corbin Bosch is the provider, some innocuous looking seam-up stuff, and having been targeted by Head, Bosch loses his line. Twice down the leg side from over the wicket, he changes to around the wicket and bowls a third consecutive wide. Then finally gets one slightly closer to the pads, and is tucked for four more to fine leg. Bowls the same ball to close the over, and is lucky that Head misses it. A dreadful start to Bosch’s bowling day, going for 19.

6th over: Australia 53-0 (Marsh 46, Head 7) A bit of frustration for Head, denied by the field, first with a good stop at midwicket, then another one-handed drive stopped at point, before a sweet on-drive that looked destined for the rope is collared at mid on, a slight deflection allowing Head to take a single when four looked imminent. Still, that brings Marsh back on strike, and he immediately belts his own on-drive, in the air this time, wide of the fielder for four.

Then, just for balance, he plays a similar shot on the other side of the field! Wide of mid off this time, along the ground being the only other difference, and he’s 46 from 24!

Coetzee manages to cause Marsh a second thought with a slower ball, driven to cover, and it least produces a dot ball.

5th over: Australia 44-0 (Marsh 38, Head 6) Another Head single first ball, and well may he feed Marsh the strike, because Marsh camps on the back foot and brutalises Jansen over deep midwicket for his fourth six of the innings. He has 28 runs in five scoring shots at the moment.

Make that 32 in six! Marsh adds a second four, this time standing up tall to pull a bouncer through fine leg.

Make that 36 in seven shots! Jansen left-arm around the wicket angling in, but still too much width, and Marsh nails the cut shot behind point.

Finally, his first non-boundary scoring shot arrives as he pummels the last ball of the over to midwicket, almost four more, but it’s saved on the rope for two. That’s 17 from the over, and Marsh is flying.

4th over: Australia 27-0 (Marsh 22, Head 5) Finally a non-boundary. Head dinks into the leg side and takes off. Marsh facing Coetzee though can’t connect as he did against Jansen. Twice he plays the pull shot and can’t connect, one to a ball at waist height, once to a shorter one that hits him in the forearm. Again it looks the bowler is on top, and again the last ball of the over goes for six! How has he done that?

Yorker, curling past the leg stump. Just pitches short of the right length, so it’s too full to even be exactly a half volley. But somehow, Marsh playing a simple clip off his pads gets the sweetest possible timing to send it over the rope at deep backward square. That’s an unbelievable shot.

3rd over: Australia 20-0 (Marsh 16, Head 4) Straight drive for six now! Marsh lines up Jansen over mid off, again such a simple bat-swing. But Jansen comes back well! Getting the ball to swing, to shape, beating the edge a couple of times. Australia have had three scoring shots in as many overs. Wait, make that four scoring shots! And six more runs! Last ball of the over, Jansen looks like escaping it well, but Marsh throws his hands at width, and sends a wide ball flat over cover. Goodness.

2nd over: Australia 8-0 (Marsh 4, Head 4) If Marsh played his signature shot for his first boundary, so does Head: a slash behind point from the left-hander that flies past the catcher. Head ends up with one hand on the bat after that shot. Gerald Coetzee in the broad black headband is bowling this over. Does get up for an appeal, swing and full, but not in line with the stumps.

1st over: Australia 4-0 (Marsh 4, Head 0) Time for Big Marco to try to match his batting feats with the ball. But he’s bashed away! Second ball of the innings from Jansen, and Marsh plays that uncomplicated violent straight drive of his, cannoning back down the ground. He swings a couple more times in the over, but misses his pull and his swish outside off stump.

Thanks Martin. Yep, your classic even-handed ODI at the halfway mark is this. The kind of target that could look like a stroll for either team if they have a good start, but as we saw during South Africa’s innings, this format leaves plenty of times for things to change. For Australia, the result is perhaps less important than the chance for two of their main quicks to tune up, but the batting corps has plenty to play for in the chase.

Thanks a lot for following along this far – it turned into a gripping start to Australia’s tour of South Africa. I’ll hand you over to Geoff Lemon to guide you through the chase.

Matthew Breetzke deserves all the flowers coming his way as he attempts to explain his imperious ODI form and second century in the format. Here he is speaking to Vernon Philander on the broadcast.

They [Australia] are one of the best in the world. So that just gets the juices flowing. I love playing against the big teams.

I think a clear role from the coaches in what I need to do and adapting the conditions [has been a key to success in the format]. We obviously lost early wickets and it was a bit tricky up front there. I had to build some partnerships and luckily got away.

Me and Marco have had good partnerships over the last year. I think we get each other going. He said just play your game and, yeah, it was a special innings.

49th over: South Africa 278-6 (Jansen 71, Bosch 1) Corbin Bosch stands in the way of Jansen and Ellis renewing their simmering rivalry. He doesn’t have too much idea about a yorker but a thick edge earns him a boundary. Jansen reaches his highest score in ODIs with a boundary through point. But Ellis picks him up with the next delivery as a straighter ball crashes into the back pad. Australia has fallen behind the over-rate and are bowling the last two with an extra fielder inside the circle.

48th over: South Africa 278-6 (Jansen 71, Bosch 1) Australia get a wicket just as everything seems to be going against them with Breetzke pushing the limits with his running between wickets. An impressive knock comes to an end for 112 from 106 balls. Edwards will be happy with only conceding five runs while being trusted to bowl at the death.

47th over: South Africa 273-5 (Breetzke 111, Jansen 68) Jansen is opening up now with a pair of boundaries while Ellis seems intent on delivering some robust feedback to the batter. The curious approach fails to pay off as Jansen clobbers the final ball of the over straight down the ground for a huge SIX! That brings up the 100-run partnership.

46th over: South Africa 256-5 (Breetzke 109, Jansen 53) Breetzke opens the face and eases a yorker from Hazlewood to the rope at deep third. He sends the Australian quick the other way with a boundary off the back foot and over cover.

45th over: South Africa 243-5 (Breetzke 100, Jansen 50) Matthew Breetzke celebrates with a huge scream as he reaches a hundred in an ODI for the second time. Jansen ends the over bringing up his own half-century from 46 balls as Connolly drops a tough chance on the run at long-on.

44th over: South Africa 233-5 (Breetzke 92, Jansen 48) Jansen drags a slower ball from Ellis from well outside off to deep long-on for four. The margin for error is incredibly thin with the all-rounder in this sort of form.

43rd over: South Africa 227-5 (Breetzke 91, Jansen 43) Hazlewood gets the call to return and limits the South Africans to a pair of singles. That’s until Breetzke steps back and upper cuts a drive over backward point.

42nd over: South Africa 221-5 (Breetzke 86, Jansen 42) Edwards helps bring the run-rate back under control. Australia will take giving up three singles from a tidy over especially with Jansen still swinging wildly.

41st over: South Africa 218-5 (Breetzke 84, Jansen 41) SIX! Jansen goes large and cracks Starc into the back tier of the grandstand. He picks up the slower ball and launches it over deep mid-wicket with a 94 metre hit. The all-rounder finishes the over by picking up the attempted yorker and plundering one of the very best bowlers in the world back over his head to the rope. Australia were in command with South Africa barely more than crawling along but Jansen has quickly turned the game – he has scored 41 in the partnership of 50.

40th over: South Africa 208-5 (Breetzke 84, Jansen 31) Jansen gives himself some room to punch a square drive off Edwards to the rope. The debutant responds with a slower ball that slips out of his hands and down the leg-side. Edwards limits the damage from there with the South Africans picking up three singles from there.

39th over: South Africa 200-5 (Breetzke 83, Jansen 25) SIX! Jansen is done with hanging around as he picks up the flight from Zampa, takes one step down the pitch and sends the ball sailing over the long-on fence. The towering all-rounder does much the same again as he gets down on one knee and slog sweeps the leg-spinner into the crowd at deep midwicket. That brings up the 200 for South Africa just as they were getting bogged down.

38th over: South Africa 184-5 (Breetzke 82, Jansen 10) Ellis limits South Africa to just the two runs from the over but the batters will need to get motoring soon.

37th over: South Africa 182-5 (Breetzke 81, Jansen 9) Jansen opens up and swings hard at a fuller delivery from Starc. The South Africa all-rounder doesn’t quite connect sweetly but gets enough on it to reach the rope at deep midwicket. Starc almost responds with a delivery that moves away from the off-stump but Jansen isn’t good enough to get even a nick on it.

36th over: South Africa 175-5 (Breetzke 80, Jansen 3) Breetzke gives up a rare half-chance as he pulls Ellis but gets a top edge that flies high to backward square. Inglis races towards the drop but can’t get there in time and Breetzke survives.

35th over: South Africa 171-5 (Breetzke 78, Jansen 1) Starc returns with Australia hoping to take another wicket with Jansen fresh at the crease. Breetzke has no concern turning the strike over to the all-rounder with a single to mid-off, and Jansen adds another with a flick off the pads. Breetzke picks up one more to mid-wicket.

34th over: South Africa 168-5 (Breetzke 76, Jansen 0) Ellis picks up a wicket with his wicked variation leaving Miller all at sea. He took a quality reflex catch to send Miller on his way.

33rd over: South Africa 166-4 (Breetzke 75, Miller 10) Hazlewood is the next to strike Breetzke in the stomach. That’s the second big blow the South African has taken in the space of a few overs and he takes a hard earned breather.

32nd over: South Africa 165-4 (Breetzke 75, Miller 9) Breetzke takes to Edwards now as he gets on the front foot and punishes an overpitched delivery straight down the ground for four. Edwards gets one to nip back in and while he can’t take the crucial wicket he lands a nasty blow on Breetzke’s midriff.

31st over: South Africa 159-4 (Breetzke 70, Miller 8) Hazlewood takes the ball as Australia search for a wicket after the drinks break. Breetzke takes a few deliveries to pick up the line and length then launches a huge SIX over deep square leg. Hazlewood was barely short but Breetzke is in red-hot form.

30th over: South Africa 152-4 (Breetzke 63, Miller 8) Edwards keeps the pressure on with another tidy over as the batting pair pick up three singles. That’s drinks with this ODI evenly poised.

29th over: South Africa 149-4 (Breetzke 61, Miller 7) Breetzke gets down on one knee and smacks a drive through cover to the rope. He goes back-to-back with a pull off Zampa to deep mid-wicket where Starc dives to collect the ball but his foot crashes over the padding.

28th over: South Africa 138-4 (Breetzke 50, Miller 7) Jack Edwards gets the ball to jag back into the left-hander David Miller and it crashes into the South African’s back pad. The umpire waves away the appeal and Australia send it for a review. The only thing saving Miller – and denying Edwards a first ODI wickets – is umpire’s call as ball tracking shows it was clipping the bails. Miller survives again as a thick leading edge flies over cover but lands safely and the South African scamper through for a couple.

27th over: South Africa 134-4 (Breetzke 50, Miller 5) Millers gets off the mark with a flick off the pads to deep long-on and picks up two more behind square off Zampa.

26th over: South Africa 129-4 (Breetzke 50, Miller 0) Half-century for Breetzke. That’s the eighth time he has reached the mark in 14 ODIs. He brings it up with a cracking straight drive to the rope off Renshaw. The Australian part-timer ties him down to see out the rest of the over.

25th over: South Africa 125-4 (Breetzke 46, Miller 0) Rickelton was looking dangerous while scoring at a touch better than a run a ball but is on his way for 27 off 26. David Miller joins Breetzke at the crease as South Africa will appreciate having a bit of depth to their batting order.

24th over: South Africa 123-3 (Breetzke 45, Rickelton 26) Edwards returns and Rickelton almost gives the all-rounder his first ODI wicket. Rickelton drives and gets a thick edge that flies wide of the keeper and past deep third to the rope. The next boundary is pure class as Rickelton cracks a straight drive wide of mid-off.

23rd over: South Africa 112-3 (Breetzke 44, Rickelton 16) Rickelton hammers Starc for back-to-back boundaries even as the left-armer is pushing into mid 140km/h deliveries. The first uses the pace to ease the ball through deep square and fine leg. The next is more impressive as Rickelton rocks back and cuts through point to the rope.

22nd over: South Africa 103-3 (Breetzke 44, Rickelton 7) Australia roll the dice with the part-time spin of Matt Renshaw and might be pleased to get away with just the one boundary. Rickelton misses out on full toss as he hits straight to long-off. Breetzke likes what he’s seen and immediately takes on Renshaw with a scorching cover drive to the rope.

21st over: South Africa 96-3 (Breetzke 39, Rickelton 5) Starc returns with Australia looking to turn the screw before Rickelton settles. The left-armer immediately gets movement in the air when others were unable to find much. Three singles keep the score ticking over as Connolly saves a boundary with a dive in cover off the last ball of the over.

20th over: South Africa 93-3 (Breetzke 38, Rickelton 3) Ellis reins in the scoring with an over filled with his usual variation. Full, short, wide of off-stump and a slower ball keep the batters guessing. Breetzke picks up a single to deep square and Rickelton adds another to mid-off.

19th over: South Africa 90-3 (Breetzke 37, Rickelton 1) Zampa sends Bavuma on his way to bring Ryan Rickelton to the crease at No 5 – the lowest the hard-hitter has batted in his 17 ODIs. Rickelton gets off the mark with a single to mid-off then Breetzke cracks a SIX as he sends a shorter ball over deep mid-wicket.

18th over: South Africa 83-2 (Bavuma 30, Breetzke 31) The South Africans share a 50-run partnership as Breetzke opens up his bat to slice a drive off Ellis past point and to the rope. Fortune perhaps favouring the brave but the batters are looking solid.

17th over: South Africa 76-2 (Bavuma 29, Breetzke 25) The South Africa pair are looking settled and are closing in on a 50-run stand. Breetzke hammers a fuller ball from Zampa as a cover drive ends up flying over point to the rope.

16th over: South Africa 70-2 (Bavuma 28, Breetzke 20) Cooper Connolly comes into the attack as Australia call on spin and both ends. He begins around the wicket and Breetzke picks off a single to long-off. Bavuma has a closer look then flicks off his pads for two to long-on as Breetzke races through for a tight second that tests Travis Head’s throw from the deep. Bavuma punishes a shorter ball with a cut to the rope.

15th over: South Africa 63-2 (Bavuma 22, Breetzke 19) Australia turn to spin after the drinks break with Adam Zampa thrown the ball for the first time. The South Africans begin the over with three consecutive singles before the leg-spinner clamps down.

14th over: South Africa 60-2 (Bavuma 21, Breetzke 17) Bavuma flicks a switch with a pair of sublime boundaries. The first comes off the back foot as the skipper crunches a straight drive over Edwards’ head. The next is even better with a textbook pull shot over square leg. That’s drinks.

13th over: South Africa 52-2 (Bavuma 13, Breetzke 17) Hazlewood bowls his sixth over of the spell. Breetzke crunches a boundary with an exquisite straight drive that thunders just wide of mid-off.

12th over: South Africa 46-2 (Bavuma 12, Breetzke 12) Jack Edwards is thrown the ball for the first time in an ODI. A neat over only gives up two runs as Bavuma starts it with a nudge to square leg and Breetzke ends it with a risky single to mid-on.

11th over: South Africa 44-2 (Bavuma 11, Breetzke 11) South Africa are happy to consolidate on their decent start by rotating the strike with four singles off Hazlewood. The Australian quick drops in a nasty bouncer to Bavuma as the South Africa tries to hook. There is a half-hearted appeal for caught behind but Bavuma was nowhere near it.

10th over: South Africa 40-2 (Bavuma 9, Breetzke 9) A tidy over from Ellis. Bavuma picks up a single with a cover drive that doesn’t have enough on it to beat the infield. Breetzke adds one with a straight drive and a tight run. Powerplay is done. Honours feel even.

9th over: South Africa 38-2 (Bavuma 8, Breetzke 8) Hazlewood continues but the South Africans are beginning to look more comfortable against him. Bavuma picks up a single with a nudge around the corner to midwicket. Breetzke then opens up with a square cut off the back foot for four. Shot of the day so far.

8th over: South Africa 33-2 (Bavuma 7, Breetzke 4) Ellis gets the crucial wicket of De Kock to bring South Africa one-day wonder Matthew Breetzke to the crease. The 27-year-old averages 59.17 with one ton and six half-centuries from his first 13 innings in the format. Ellis beats Breetzke with the first ball. But the South African responds with a straight drive past the bowler and to the rope off the final delivery of the over.

7th over: South Africa 29-1 (De Kock 14, Bavuma 7) South Africa get motoring helped by a rare loose over from Starc. The left-arm quick drifts down leg for a wide then loses both his line and length with a stray delivery down the same side. Inglis can’t get to it and the ball races away for five wides.

6th over: South Africa 21-1 (De Kock 13, Bavuma 6) SIX! Quinton de Kock launches a pull shot beyond the rope for the first six of the innings. Hazlewood is only a little short of his spot but the opener has enough time to lean back and pull over square and clear of Adam Zampa on the boundary.

5th over: South Africa 14-1 (De Kock 7, Bavuma 5) Bavuma gets South Africa moving a touch as he punishes a fuller delivery from Mitchell Starc. The cover drive was in the air a touch longer than he would have liked but it lands safely on the way to the rope. The skipper ends the over trying to flick the left-armer off his pads but can only pick up one leg-bye.

4th over: South Africa 9-1 (De Kock 7, Bavuma 1) Hazlewood gets the breakthrough with the wicket of Tony de Zorzi and almost has a second with a big lbw shout against Temba Bavuma. The South Africa skipper is given the benefit of the doubt as he defends a straight one. Australia send the decision for a review that shows the ball strikes Bavuma on the back pad, hits him dead in front of the stumps … but is bouncing over.

3rd over: South Africa 6-0 (De Kock 6, De Zorzi 0) Quinton de Kock plays with a watchful eye as Starc works away outside his off-stump. The left-handed opener finally pounces on a shorter delivery to lift the ball over a vacant gully area to the rope wide of deep third.

2nd over: South Africa 2-0 (De Kock 2, De Zorzi 0) Josh Hazlewood takes the new ball from the other end as is immediately on to his metronomic line and length. Tony de Zorzi defends soundly to see out a maiden.

1st over: South Africa 2-0 (De Kock 2, De Zorzi 0) Mitchell Starc gets the ball talking from the opening delivery as it swings away from left-hander Quinton de Kock. The Australian quick drifts on to the pads with a straighter ball that De Kock whips away for an easy two. De Kock ends the over punching a drive straight down the ground as Starc gets a finger on the ball on its way through to the stumps. Tony de Zorzi is awake to the danger and has his bat grounded.

Quinton de Kock and Tony de Zorzi make their way to the crease for South Africa with the national anthems sung and done. Australia have a formidable pace attack to turn to with Mitchell Starc taking the new ball and Josh Hazlewood also named alongside the variation of Nathan Ellis and debutant Jack Edwards.