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Bizzare day in test as Aussie, SA collapse
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November 11, 2011, Friday
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AUSTRALIA needed a last-wicket partnership of 26 runs yesterday to avoid the record for the all-time lowest team total in test cricket, finally collapsing to 47 all out on a chaotic second day of the first test match in Cape Town against South Africa.
No. 11 Nathan Lyon top-scored with 14 and No. 10 Peter Siddle was next with 12 not out to steer Australia from 21-9 - five runs off the worst score in test history, when New Zealand was bowled out by England in 1955. Debutant Vernon Philander took 5-15 and Morne Morkel 3-9, but Australia still leads by 235 runs.
Incredibly, Australia had just skittled South Africa out for 96 to lead by 188 runs after both first innings. The visitors' ensuing slump meant 22 wickets have fallen on the day so far.
Allrounder Shane Watson destroyed South Africa's batsmen after lunch in an astonishing burst. South Africa had set off 55 minutes before lunch in search of Australia's first innings total of 284 and had reached a comfortable 49 for one at the break with Jacques Rudolph the only man out in his first test for five years.
But Watson joined the attack immediately after lunch and stunned South Africa's leading batsmen with a spell of five wickets in 20 balls to end up with 5-17 off five overs.
South Africa's rusty batsmen failed to bat with any authority as Watson bowled accurately at a lively pace and moved the ball appreciably in the air and off the seam.
In the first over after lunch, Hashim Amla was trapped lbw for three and Jacques Kallis edged a hook on to his shoulder and then to second slip for a duck.
Both decisions were given not out by the on-field officials before Australia won successful reviews.
Graeme Smith (37) then chopped the ball on to his stumps and Ashwell Prince (0) was trapped lbw by a yorker in successive deliveries in Watson's third over and the allrounder completed his third five-wicket haul when he trapped Mark Boucher lbw for four.
Earlier, Australia rode on the back of captain Michael Clarke's dazzling 151 to post a respectable 284 all out in its first innings.
No. 11 Nathan Lyon top-scored with 14 and No. 10 Peter Siddle was next with 12 not out to steer Australia from 21-9 - five runs off the worst score in test history, when New Zealand was bowled out by England in 1955. Debutant Vernon Philander took 5-15 and Morne Morkel 3-9, but Australia still leads by 235 runs.
Incredibly, Australia had just skittled South Africa out for 96 to lead by 188 runs after both first innings. The visitors' ensuing slump meant 22 wickets have fallen on the day so far.
Allrounder Shane Watson destroyed South Africa's batsmen after lunch in an astonishing burst. South Africa had set off 55 minutes before lunch in search of Australia's first innings total of 284 and had reached a comfortable 49 for one at the break with Jacques Rudolph the only man out in his first test for five years.
But Watson joined the attack immediately after lunch and stunned South Africa's leading batsmen with a spell of five wickets in 20 balls to end up with 5-17 off five overs.
South Africa's rusty batsmen failed to bat with any authority as Watson bowled accurately at a lively pace and moved the ball appreciably in the air and off the seam.
In the first over after lunch, Hashim Amla was trapped lbw for three and Jacques Kallis edged a hook on to his shoulder and then to second slip for a duck.
Both decisions were given not out by the on-field officials before Australia won successful reviews.
Graeme Smith (37) then chopped the ball on to his stumps and Ashwell Prince (0) was trapped lbw by a yorker in successive deliveries in Watson's third over and the allrounder completed his third five-wicket haul when he trapped Mark Boucher lbw for four.
Earlier, Australia rode on the back of captain Michael Clarke's dazzling 151 to post a respectable 284 all out in its first innings.
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