1.South Africa vs Australia Johannesburg 2006 – 872 runs
The greatest ODI game one has seen in the last decade, The packed house at Johannesburg on the 12th of March 2006 saw 100 overs of absolute carnage as both South Africa and Australia laid into each other’s bowling arsenals.
First, it was Australis’s turn. Ricky Ponting produced one of the best innings of his limited-overs career, smashing 164 in a team total of 434 for 4, which at the time seemed enough.
However, what followed left everyone at the venue befuddled. SouthAfrica, courtesy Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs, tore into the visitors attack and began to take control of proceedings. Smith fell for 90, but Gibbs carried on, recording his personal best of 175 before getting out off the bowling of Andrew Symonds.
Mark Boucher rallied with the tail and in the final over of the game smashed Brett Lee for a boundary, he had complated the greatest victory of all time.
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