| South Africa is in a dominant position at the close of play on the first day of the third and final Castle Test match at Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town.
Ricky Ponting won toss and elected to bat first, perhaps not the best decision. A poor start in the field saw South Africa drop two catches, while the Australians moved on to 58/0. Imraan Kahn dropped a sitter and JP Duminy dropped Hughes off Paul Harris. Harris stepped up and took the wicket of Hughes two balls later to open the wicket taking. |
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One run later and Ricky Ponting was walking back to the Pavilion with a duck next to his name. The highest scorer for Australia was Katich who was out for 55 off 160 balls.
Jacques Kallis captained the team well and had the Australians all out for 209, an hour before the end of the day. Enter Imraan Kahn and Ashwell Prince, the expectation to score was high after scoring a big century and a double century respectively. Prince led the partnership scoring freely to take play to a close with South Africa on 57/0. Prince had scored 37 runs from 36 balls in a powerful batting display.
South Africa are 157 runs behind, if Prince picks up where he left off the Australians are going to be in trouble by lunch on day two.
All the rumors of unhappiness in the team have been put to rest by an inspiring batting performance, now we need to keep or heads and add 300 runs on day two to setup a powerful first innings lead.
Bowling performances from South Africa:
Steyn: 16 overs, 56 runs, 4 wickets
Ntini: 17 overs, 38 runs, 2 wickets
Kallis: 10 overs, 31 runs, 0 wickets
A Morkel: 12 overs, 44 runs, 1 wicket
Harris: 17 overs, 34 runs, 3 wickets
Why do we have to listen to Aussie commentators who have nothing to say but negative comments about our cricketers?
Where on earth do they drag their comments from? How can they say that Kallis going off after adding no runs to his score is the equivalent of going out for a duck? PLEEEEEAAAASE get rid of them. It makes me want to switch off the TV & never ever want to watch cricket again!
Posted by S Mitchell | 21. Mar, 2009, 10:53 amMick Lewis makes a return to the Aussie side…. oh wait its Bryce Mcgain…. eina!
Posted by Marc | 21. Mar, 2009, 1:46 pm@Marc Bryce McGain got a hiding hey….
Posted by Shaun Custers | 22. Mar, 2009, 10:20 am@S Mitchell don’t do that, just flick to SABC 3 and you can listen to local commentators they even have a lady commentating…
They were on the receiving end for a change… It must be difficult to stay positive.
Posted by Shaun Custers | 22. Mar, 2009, 10:22 am