South Africa relieved after halting dropping streak

South Africa’s win over Australia on Tuesday got here as a serious reduction after a run of successive defeats threatened their confidence earlier than subsequent month’s World Cup, stated man of the match Aiden Markram.

South Africa beat Australia by 111 runs on the JB Marks Oval to win their first sport within the five-match One Day International sequence, after dropping the opening two in addition to all three matches of the Twenty20 sequence in opposition to Australia that preceded it.

Markram hit 102 not out and admitted afterwards that it had come at an essential time for a staff in want of a lift.

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“I think there is a lot of relief involved. We pride ourselves on being a really competitive cricketing nation and when you don’t play up to those standards, it affects the human as well as the cricketer,” he informed a press convention.

“So when you get a good result, it means a lot to us. And it’s nice to know that we’ve got the character to turn it around in a must-win game tonight. There are a lot of positives that we can take forward and a bit of relief as well.”

It was Markram’s second century in a format the place he has but to show himself.

“Ultimately you’re walking out to bat every time, you’re seeing how you can add value to the team. And some days it might be a quick-fire innings for a change of momentum and some days, it might be in a situation with a bit more gravity.”

South Africa had been so much higher on Tuesday than in Bloemfontein the place Australia received the primary two ODIs.

“It was a tricky sort of wicket. We almost never really quite felt in, but managed to play better cricket in all facets. But we still have much to improve on, to get closer towards the standards that we set for ourselves. Fortunately a nice turn around for us.”

The subsequent assembly between South Africa and the Australians is in Pretoria on Friday with the final sport of the sequence in Johannesburg on Sunday.