Re: South Africa in Australia
What a day for South Africa and they are now in a position to win the series.
It all started off very well for them with Hayden hitting another mistimed shot to Duminy. Then Katich departed when he played at a wide delivery and nicked it to Boucher (in similar fashion to smith's first innings dismissal).
Hussey was unlucky to be given out after he recieved a deadly bouncer from Morkel from the naked eye it appeared to hit Glove then Helmet and then pop up to Amla and that is how it was ruled however the slow motion replay showed it was unlucky. Clarke and Ponting did a little bit of rebuilding before Clarke tried to smash a short wide one from Steyn and hit it to Mckenzie who took a good catch at cover. Symonds then came in and didn't last long until he edged one straight to Kallis at second slip off Steyn for a duck. Haddin was dismissed similarly except he scored 10 runs and the bowler was Ntini.
Lee came in and was gone just before tea for 8 falling a victim to a Jaques Kallis cutter that clean bowled him and brought up 250 test wickets for Kallis. Johnson and Ponting looked promising until Ponting was on 99 and about to make history to be the only player to reach back to back tonnes in a test match 4 times but on 99 he got a tempting ball from Morkel which he tried to pearce the gap between short cover and extra cover but it went straight to Smith at short cover. Hauritz then was clean bowled by the same ball that removed Lee. Despite Johnson's cameo it wasn't enough to get the lead over 200 when Siddle was caught behind off steyn giving hima 5 for in both innings and a 10 wicket match leaving him a shoe in for man of the match if South africa win.
South Africa set off needing to negotiate 5 overs with 183 the target. Smith played agrresively with 5 4s and finidhing with an unbeaten 25 off 19. Mckenzie was defensive and was bowled by Lee altough it was a no ball.
This capped off a great day for south Africa and sensible batting tommorow will see them with a series win for over australia for the first time in australia and australia's firts home series loss in 16 years.
What a day for South Africa and they are now in a position to win the series.
It all started off very well for them with Hayden hitting another mistimed shot to Duminy. Then Katich departed when he played at a wide delivery and nicked it to Boucher (in similar fashion to smith's first innings dismissal).
Hussey was unlucky to be given out after he recieved a deadly bouncer from Morkel from the naked eye it appeared to hit Glove then Helmet and then pop up to Amla and that is how it was ruled however the slow motion replay showed it was unlucky. Clarke and Ponting did a little bit of rebuilding before Clarke tried to smash a short wide one from Steyn and hit it to Mckenzie who took a good catch at cover. Symonds then came in and didn't last long until he edged one straight to Kallis at second slip off Steyn for a duck. Haddin was dismissed similarly except he scored 10 runs and the bowler was Ntini.
Lee came in and was gone just before tea for 8 falling a victim to a Jaques Kallis cutter that clean bowled him and brought up 250 test wickets for Kallis. Johnson and Ponting looked promising until Ponting was on 99 and about to make history to be the only player to reach back to back tonnes in a test match 4 times but on 99 he got a tempting ball from Morkel which he tried to pearce the gap between short cover and extra cover but it went straight to Smith at short cover. Hauritz then was clean bowled by the same ball that removed Lee. Despite Johnson's cameo it wasn't enough to get the lead over 200 when Siddle was caught behind off steyn giving hima 5 for in both innings and a 10 wicket match leaving him a shoe in for man of the match if South africa win.
South Africa set off needing to negotiate 5 overs with 183 the target. Smith played agrresively with 5 4s and finidhing with an unbeaten 25 off 19. Mckenzie was defensive and was bowled by Lee altough it was a no ball.
This capped off a great day for south Africa and sensible batting tommorow will see them with a series win for over australia for the first time in australia and australia's firts home series loss in 16 years.
yeah I was thinking about making a comment like that.