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Glenn McGrath ODI record against South Africa

1993-12-09 – 2007-04-25 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 41 ODI matches against South Africa with recorded batting or bowling figures: 15 batting innings and 41 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
Discipline	Innings	Runs	Wickets / outs	Average	Strike rate
Batting	15	12	6	2.00	32.43
Bowling	41	1,380	58	23.79	38.87

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. — means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 3.67 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 2,255.

Batting milestones in this sample: 0 centuries and 0 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 37.

THE SHAPE OF A CAREER

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

ODI

Runs by seasonODI · annual total

Wickets by seasonODI · annual total

Exact yearly figures · 10 seasons

ODI archive totals by year
Year	Mat	Bat inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	4s	BF	Bowl inns	Wkts	Bowl avg	Econ	Bowl SR
2007	2	0	0	—	N/A	N/A	0	0	2	4	20.00	4.70	25.50
2006	2	2	2	2	2.00	28.57	0	7	2	3	23.33	3.88	36.00
2002	9	1	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	2	9	17	17.00	3.64	28.00
2000	6	3	0	0	N/A	0.00	0	1	6	9	19.11	2.96	38.66
1999	2	1	0	0	N/A	0.00	0	1	2	2	50.00	5.00	60.00
1997	1	1	0	0	N/A	N/A	0	0	1	3	13.33	4.00	20.00
1996	3	1	1	1	1.00	20.00	0	5	3	2	66.50	5.11	78.00
1995	1	0	0	—	N/A	N/A	0	0	1	2	12.50	2.50	30.00
1994	13	5	9	5	4.50	45.00	2	20	13	14	29.85	3.45	51.78
1993	2	1	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	1	2	2	26.50	3.18	50.00

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
Setting	Matches	Bat inns	Runs	Bat avg	Bat SR	Bowl inns	Wickets	Bowl avg
Home	14	8	11	3.66	55.00	14	26	17.61
Away	17	5	0	0.00	0.00	17	18	29.50
Neutral	8	2	1	1.00	16.66	8	10	31.10
Unknown	2	0	0	N/A	N/A	2	4	20.00

MOMENTS IN THE RECORD

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

1993-12-09
First available scorecard
ODI v South Africa · Melbourne
1994-01-09
Best recorded bowling · 4/24
ODI v South Africa · Brisbane
1994-01-21
Highest recorded innings · 5* runs
ODI v South Africa · Melbourne
2007-04-25
Latest available scorecard
ODI v South Africa · Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
Date	Venue	Innings	Runs	Balls	Wickets	Conceded
2007-04-25	Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet	1	—	—	3	18
2007-03-24	Warner Park, Basseterre	2	—	—	1	62
2006-01-20	Docklands Stadium	2	—	—	1	35
2006-01-20	Docklands Stadium	1	2	6	—	—
2006-01-15	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba	2	—	—	2	35
2006-01-15	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba	1	0	1	—	—
2002-04-09	Cape Town	2	0	2	—	—
2002-04-09	Cape Town	1	—	—	2	43
2002-04-06	Gqeberha	1	—	—	0	52
2002-04-03	Durban	1	—	—	2	54
2002-03-30	Bloemfontein	2	—	—	2	20
2002-03-24	Centurion	2	—	—	2	14
2002-03-22	Johannesburg	2	—	—	1	26
2002-02-03	W.A.C.A	2	—	—	1	21
2002-01-22	Sydney	1	—	—	3	29
2002-01-20	Brisbane	2	—	—	4	30
2000-08-20	Melbourne (Docklands)	2	0	1	—	—
2000-08-20	Melbourne (Docklands)	1	—	—	3	26
2000-08-18	Melbourne (Docklands)	2	0	0	—	—
2000-08-18	Melbourne (Docklands)	1	—	—	1	47

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.