Related News
Proteas snatch crazy victory
Source: Agencies |
November 12, 2011, Saturday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
CENTURIES by Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla sent South Africa to a crazy eight-wicket win over Australia inside two-and-a-half days and after trailing by 188 runs in the opening test at Newlands, Cape Town, yesterday.
Smith made 101 not out and Amla 112, sharing a 195-run partnership as South Africa reached its victory target of 236 for just two wickets before lunch on day three for a 1-0 lead in the series.
Australian bowlers took just one wicket yesterday on a pitch where it was skittled out for 47 in a game-changing collapse in its second innings on Thursday, its lowest score since the 19th century.
Smith and Amla restored sanity after a chaotic second day when 23 wickets fell, batting fluently to take South Africa to an absurd victory after it trailed by a big margin in the first innings just a day ago.
Inspired by 151 from captain Michael Clarke, Australia made 284 batting first and then blasted out South Africa for 96 for its 188-run lead.
But Australia responded by slumping to its worst batting score in tests since 1896 - and its fourth lowest total ever - to see its dominant position in the match suddenly disintegrate in a heap of wickets on the second afternoon.
Crucial chances
Australia also missed two crucial chances off Amla in the final stages of a traumatic test for the Baggy Greens, dropping the right-hander off the last ball of the second day and again early yesterday when he was on 30, when Shane Watson spilled a regulation catch at first slip.
Amla made the most of his two lives to go on the attack.
He sent flashing drives through the covers for his 13th test century and first against the Aussies, powering the Proteas to victory with 21 fours in a 134-ball innings.
He carved three straight boundaries off Ryan Harris, the bowler who produced the two missed chances from Amla, to race to three figures before edging a catch to Clarke in the gully off Mitchell Johnson with South Africa 14 short of victory.
Amla's 195-run stand with Smith was a South African record second-wicket partnership against Australia, beating another mark that had stood for over 100 years in another slice of history in a test which produced a string of records amid the madness on Thursday.
Smith saw South Africa home with his unbeaten hundred.
Smith made 101 not out and Amla 112, sharing a 195-run partnership as South Africa reached its victory target of 236 for just two wickets before lunch on day three for a 1-0 lead in the series.
Australian bowlers took just one wicket yesterday on a pitch where it was skittled out for 47 in a game-changing collapse in its second innings on Thursday, its lowest score since the 19th century.
Smith and Amla restored sanity after a chaotic second day when 23 wickets fell, batting fluently to take South Africa to an absurd victory after it trailed by a big margin in the first innings just a day ago.
Inspired by 151 from captain Michael Clarke, Australia made 284 batting first and then blasted out South Africa for 96 for its 188-run lead.
But Australia responded by slumping to its worst batting score in tests since 1896 - and its fourth lowest total ever - to see its dominant position in the match suddenly disintegrate in a heap of wickets on the second afternoon.
Crucial chances
Australia also missed two crucial chances off Amla in the final stages of a traumatic test for the Baggy Greens, dropping the right-hander off the last ball of the second day and again early yesterday when he was on 30, when Shane Watson spilled a regulation catch at first slip.
Amla made the most of his two lives to go on the attack.
He sent flashing drives through the covers for his 13th test century and first against the Aussies, powering the Proteas to victory with 21 fours in a 134-ball innings.
He carved three straight boundaries off Ryan Harris, the bowler who produced the two missed chances from Amla, to race to three figures before edging a catch to Clarke in the gully off Mitchell Johnson with South Africa 14 short of victory.
Amla's 195-run stand with Smith was a South African record second-wicket partnership against Australia, beating another mark that had stood for over 100 years in another slice of history in a test which produced a string of records amid the madness on Thursday.
Smith saw South Africa home with his unbeaten hundred.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
