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While the Asia Cup 2023 is currently underway in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Australia are playing South Africa in a five-match ODI series. While the Kangaroos have taken a 2-0 lead in the series, the third match is underway at the Senwes Park in Potchefstroom (South Africa).
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The visitors invited the hosts to bat first at their home turf, putting 338/6 in the 50-overs. But the sight which caught everyone’s attention was a brilliant catch by Sean Abbott near the boundary ropes. This incident took place on the fourth delivery of the 47th over. Jansen, who was on strike, carved off the outside half of his bat to smash the ball, but in a surprise to all, Abbott, who was stationed at sweeper cover went all through to complete a stunner.
The bowling all-rounder flung himself to his left and stuck his left mitt out to complete an absolute beauty of a catch. Video of the same is now doing rounds on social media.
However, apart from this, it was batter Marco Jansen’s reaction which also caught a lot of eyeballs. The 23-year-old left with a hand-on head expression, leaving stunned at this beautiful pluck.
The Australia side, who are on a tour of South Africa, clean sweeped the hosts in the three-match T20I series. The visitors however currently lead the 5-match series having won the first two ODIs with 111 runs and eight wickets respectively. Additionally, with a win in the second ODI, they replaced Pakistan at the helm of the ODI Team Rankings.