I consider myself very lucky that I watched the outstanding match of the 35-year history of the one-day cricket. Everyone was speechless after witnessing the astonishing show by South Africa against Australia in Johannesburg on March the 12th.

I bet that most of the fans had switched off their TV sets after seeing a mammoth 434 by Australia, but no one knew that the history was about to be made.

Earlier in the match Australia had become the first team to score over 400 runs in limited overs cricket, surpassing the previous record of 398 for 5 scored by Sri Lanka against Kenya 10 years ago, even though the record didn’t last more than a few hours.

Interestingly, now Australia also have the agonising record of being at the loosing end of the two highest successful chases in the ODI history. The previous record was not long ago when the world champions conceded 332 runs against New Zealand at Christchurch in December 2005.

Words are really not enough to describe the inning played by Herschelle Gibbs, which, dragged him to the elite group of batmen who scored over 150 in an ODI, and without a doubt made him the architect of the best one day inning, as he played under immense pressure of chasing a shocking task.

Now come to some other outcomes of the match, everyone knows that it was the match in which a lot of records got tumbled such as a total of 872 runs - the biggest aggregate total in a one-day, the highest number of fours and sixers - 87 and 26 respectively and Australian paceman earned a berth for himself in the history by giving 113 runs in his 10 overs - the most expensive analysis in one-day international cricket.

The real outcome of the match will be a very healthy impact on the world cricket, the players as well as the spectators would now start believing in the old saying that anything is possible in cricket till the last ball is bowled. A total of 300 which was once considered as safe, is no more secure I am afraid. So better watch out we might see 1000 runs scored in a day and a batsman crosses the 200 runs mark. After praising batsmen I also feel sorry for bowlers as not many wickets are being prepared for them these days.

After the failure to defend the near impossible target, the world champions must redraft their strategies for the future and most importantly to retain the world champion’s crown in the Caribbean next year. At the moment, the main area of concern for them is their bowling which with the absence of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie looked ordinary, therefore, the world champions should quickly find quality bowlers to somehow fill the gap in the bowling department. On the other hand, the sensational performance would do a lot of good to the South African cricket and it is expected that with the staggering confidence booster after the famous win, they would indeed emerge as a force to recon with in the coming days especially in the world cup.