The Australia national cricket team toured South Africa in September and October 2016 playing a series of five One Day Internationals (ODIs) against the hosts and a solitary ODI against Ireland. The Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) raised concerns with Cricket South Africa (CSA) about the fifth ODI being held on Yom Kippur. The fixture went ahead as planned, but the WPCA asked that matches do not clash with religious days in the future.
South Africa won the series against Australia 5–0, the first time that Australia had lost all five matches in a five-match ODI series.
Squads Faf du Plessis (c) AB de Villiers (c) Kyle Abbott Hashim Amla Farhaan Behardien Quinton de Kock (wk) JP Duminy Imran Tahir David Miller Chris Morris Wayne Parnell Aaron Phangiso Andile Phehlukwayo Dwaine Pretorius Kagiso Rabada Rilee Rossouw Tabraiz Shamsi Dale Steyn Steve Smith (c) David Warner George Bailey Scott Boland James Faulkner Aaron Finch John Hastings Travis Head Usman Khawaja Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh Joe Mennie Chris Tremain Matthew Wade (wk) Daniel Worrall Adam Zampa
Both James Faulkner and Shaun Marsh were ruled out of the tour due to injury. Marsh was replaced with Usman Khawaja, while no replacement was made for Faulkner. Chris Morris suffered a knee injury ruling him out for two months. He was replaced by Dwaine Pretorius. AB de Villiers was ruled out of series due to elbow injury and was replaced by Rilee Rossouw. AB de Villiers was also ruled of subsequent tour of Australia. Wayne Parnell suffered a rib injury in the second ODI and was ruled out of the rest of the series.
ODI vs Ireland
ODIs vs South Africa 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
References
External links Series home at ESPNCricinfo