SA vs AUS: Rule the world, but surrender in front of South Africa, Australia yearns for victory in 5 consecutive ODI series

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SA vs AUS: Australia is considered one of the most aggressive and strong teams in world cricket, but when it comes to the bilateral ODI series against South Africa, the Kangaroos' pride is completely shattered. In the last few years, South Africa has created such an impenetrable empire against Australia in ODI cricket, which has become a dream for the Australian team to break. The Proteas team has won its last 5 consecutive ODI series played against Australia, which includes 2 clean sweeps. South Africa has surprised the entire cricket world by doing this feat against Australia. It has rarely happened in the history of cricket that Australia has yearned for victory in 5 consecutive ODI series.

The winning streak started from the year 2016, which has not stopped till date.

This one-sided dominance of South Africa against Australia started in the year 2016. Then South Africa made a historic clean sweep of 5-0 by defeating the Kangaroo team in their own style. After this the Australian team could never recover from this shock. South Africa won the next series played in the year 2018 by 2-1. This caravan of victory did not stop here. After this, in the year 2020, in the series played around the Corona period, South Africa once again defeated Australia 3-0.

South Africa's dominance continued in the recent series also

After losing three consecutive series, Australia tried its best to make a comeback, but could not defeat South Africa. Just before the 2023 ODI World Cup, a 5-match ODI series was played between the two teams. In that series, South Africa defeated Australia 3-2. After this, South Africa maintained its dominance in the newest series of the year 2025 and won the fifth consecutive series by defeating the Kangaroos 2-1. These figures clearly show that whenever these two teams clash with each other, the South African team is always mentally superior to Australia. South Africa won its first historic WTC title by defeating Australia by 5 wickets in the final of the World Test Championship held in June 2025.

South Africa-Australia ODI series will start from September 24

Now a 3-match ODI series will be played between South Africa and Australia in 2026. Australia is on a tour of South Africa for this series, where the ODI series between the two teams will start from September 24. All three matches of the ODI series will be played in Durban, Johannesburg and Potchefstroom. After this, a series of 3 test matches will also be played between the two teams. The command of South Africa is in the hands of experienced Temba Bavuma. On the other hand, Mitchell Marsh is captaining the Australian team in the absence of Pat Cummins. This time, the South African team would like to take advantage of its home conditions and take this figure to 6-0 by defeating Australia.

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