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SA Win Vs Australia Highlights 2nd Melbourne Test Day 5
Winning moments, celebrations & Interviews
Part 1
Cricket Highlights: South Africa chase 183 on the 5th day of the MCG test to beat Australia and win the series 2-0, with Sydney to come.
Scoreline: South Africa 183/1. Graeme Smith 75. Neil McKenzie 59 Hashim Amla 30
The video here features the winning moments and celebrations and interviews with Graeme Smith, Dale Steyn, Ricky Ponting, Brett Lee and Kallis.
A second straight run chase for South Africa and they do it again. The ease of the win with just 1 wicket down can tend to deny the time in the test match when they looked certain to lose it, but for a brilliant 166 by JP Duminy and Dale Steyn’s 76. All those years of pain South African cricket fans have endured as they watched their team stumble over themselves finally found some meaning at the MCG today.
In the meanwhile Tony Greig used the opportunity to rub it into his fellow Aussie commentators – It’s so convenient for Greig to choose a nationality to support. When South Africa wins, he’ll draw references to his birth country. If England does well, well he played for England. When Australia were doing well, he lived and worked there so he could stand on that side. When Sri Lanka did well, he’d go on about how his wife loves the country. And now in India, he works for the ICL, so that’s covered too.
Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Day 4, Cricket Live Links
I doubt if Bangladesh will be able to survive till tomorrow.
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Final ScoreCard, Australia vs South Africa, 2nd Test, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, December 26-30, 2008
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| Fall Of Wickets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1/21 (Matthew Hayden, 7.2 ov.), 2/128 (Simon Katich, 33.6 ov.), 3/143 (Mike Hussey, 37.3 ov.), 4/184 (Ricky Ponting, 51.2 ov.), 5/223 (Andrew Symonds, 66.1 ov.), 6/277 (Brad Haddin, 88.3 ov.), 7/322 (Brett Lee, 95.2 ov.), 8/326 (Mitchell Johnson, 95.5 ov.), 9/352 (Nathan Hauritz, 101.5 ov.), 10/394 (Peter Siddle, 113.4 ov.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling: South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fall Of Wickets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1/1 (Neil McKenzie, 1.4 ov.), 2/39 (Hashim Amla, 8.3 ov.), 3/102 (Jacques Kallis, 26.4 ov.), 4/126 (Graeme Smith, 37.6 ov.), 5/132 (AB de Villiers, 41.5 ov.), 6/141 (Mark Boucher, 46.4 ov.), 7/184 (Morne Morkel, 57.1 ov.), 8/251 (Paul Harris, 77.5 ov.), 9/431 (Dale Steyn, 141.3 ov.), 10/459 (Jean-Paul Duminy, 152.6 ov.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling: Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1/37 (Matthew Hayden, 10.4 ov.), 2/40 (Simon Katich, 12.2 ov.), 3/49 (Mike Hussey, 15.3 ov.), 4/145 (Michael Clarke, 43.1 ov.), 5/145 (Andrew Symonds, 43.6 ov.), 6/165 (Brad Haddin, 53.1 ov.), 7/180 (Brett Lee, 58.3 ov.), 8/212 (Ricky Ponting, 71.3 ov.), 9/231 (Nathan Hauritz, 78.6 ov.), 10/247 (Peter Siddle, 84.2 ov.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling: South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1/121 (Graeme Smith, 28.5 ov.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Teams |
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Australia: Matthew Hayden, Simon Katich, Ricky Ponting (c), Mike Hussey, Michael Clarke, Andrew Symonds, Brad Haddin(w), Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus(sub), Shane Watson(sub)
South Africa: Graeme Smith (c), Neil McKenzie, Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Jean-Paul Duminy, Mark Boucher(w), Morne Morkel, Paul Harris, Dale Steyn, Makhaya Ntini, Ashwell Prince(sub), Robin Peterson(sub), Lonwabo Tsotsobe(sub), Monde Zondeki(sub)
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Australia vs South Africa, 2nd Test Day 5, Live Cricket
Considering Australia poor performance with ball lately, it should be an easy task for South Africa to chase 153 runs with all 10 wickets still in hand. I don’t even remember when was the last time they lost the series at home and South Africa will be happy to finally beat Aussies in Australia after a long time.
The hero for South Africa was Steyn, who took ten wickets for the Test to be the favourite for the Man-of-the-Match award. Ponting fell agonisingly short of a century today, as Steyn bowled South Africa into a dominant position. Australia were bowled out not too long ago for 247, with a lead of just 182, and with a little over a day to play South Africa scored 30 for 0 by stumps. Ponting was out for 99 – caught at short cover – midway through the final session, reward for some smart captaincy from Smith and enthused pace bowling from Morkel. Johnson helped boost the total with a solid innings of 43 not out but there was little else from the order.
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South Africa vs Australia 2nd Test Highlights Day 4 Melbourne | Ponting 99
Cricket highlights from the 2nd MCG Test – Australia vs SA – 4th Day’s cricket.
Scoreline: Australia 247 (2nd Innings) – Ricky Ponting 99, Mitchell Johnson 43 no.
South Africa: 30/0. Need 153 runs more to win the test and series.
A brilliant 99 by Ricky Ponting as vaunted players deserted him on possibly the most defining day in Australian cricket. The difference between Ponting and the rest was stark, not just in his strokeplay but his general demeanor. The only time he looked unsure was when he got into the 90s – surprisingly he spent 40 minutes in the 90s and that probably denied him a deserved hundred. Mitchell Johnson was the only one who looked like he wanted to hang around, launching into his booming shots after the departure of Ponting.
Dale Steyn once again ripped through the Aussies with another 5 wicket haul to make it 10 for the test. South Africa came out chasing 183 and rattled off 30 of them with Graeme Smith belting 5 boundaries.
Brett Lee whose foot injury will deny him a shot at the Sydney test was pretty cool in his short spell and unlucky to bowl McKenzie off a no-ball.
Australia could still turn it around on Day 5 – it all depends on whether they can prise out Graeme Smith. But with de Villiers and Duminy to come, it could be a hard task. Maybe Brett Lee will turn up tomorrow like he did the last few years. Matthew Hayden will be hoping.
Australia vs South Africa 2nd Melbourne Test Highlights 3rd Day
Cricket Highlights: Australia vs SA Day 3, 2nd Melbourne (MCG) Test.
Scoreline: South Africa: 459. Jean Paul Duminy 166. Dale Steyn 76. Paul Harris 39. Lead by 65.
After Day 2, there were two possibilities one speculated going into Day 3 – would Australia pull out a long finger to all their detractors; would Duminy reinforce his stature. Well, Duminy did where Australia failed. One of the best hundreds ever played so early in a career.
Keeping Duminy going was Dale Steyn – he was streaky to start with and dropped a couple of times, but several stunning drives made up for all that, as South Africa went about doing unto the Australians what they’ve done for so many years.
One might argue that these kind of things happen in cricket – but when you see Australia not taking their chances and luck riding alongside the other team, it’s an indication of a team under pressure. If today’s cricket had all those proclaiming the end of Australian dominance smirking, one gets the feeling that Day 4 is possibly the last chance Australia have to tell the world that though there’s not much separating them from India and South Africa, they still are the team to beat.
During the recent India tour, there were several potentially exciting days of test cricket – but tomorrow could well be the Day to watch. Not many are interested anymore if Hayden is an old fisherman or not, the sound of his bat all that they’ll be paying attention to.
Australia vs South Africa, 2nd Test Day 4, Live Cricket
South Africa began the day trailing by 196 runs with three wickets in hand. The ended it 61 runs ahead of Australia who now have a real fight on their hands.
Duminy scored his maiden Test century – 166 off 340 balls – and was the last man out. He shared partnerships of 67 with Paul Harris and 180 with Dale Steyn, who scored his career best of 76.
Australia didn’t have Lee’s services today because he was suffering with a foot injury and their other bowlers were poor. The few chances they did create were put down – Ponting dropped a catch at slip and Hussey missed one at mid-on.
Australia were expected to take charge of the game today after a strong performance on day two. Instead the game has turned turtle, and South Africa will be gearing up for a strong performance in the field tomorrow.
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Australia vs South Africa 2nd MCG Test Highlights Day 2
Australia vs South Africa 2nd MCG Test Highlights Day 2
New Zealand vs West Indies, 2nd T20, Live Cricket
welcome to the 2nd T20 International between New Zealand and West Indies. It’s a glorious day here and we are due to start shortly for what promises to be a great match after the tie and super overs two days ago. New Zealand won the toss and will bat/ Let’s hope both teams will play excellent cricket again and entertain us like they did in 1st T20.
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Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Day 3, Cricket Live Links
First of all excellent partnership between Vaas and Samaraweera to push score beyond 250 doing what exactly SL needed in the morning. Later it’s all Murali show picking another fifer and so far he managed to pick 81 wickets against Bangladesh in just 10 matches.
So once again we have been witness to the Bangladesh batsmen, squandering the starts. There have been partnerships but nothing to trouble Sri Lanka in the longer run. Imrul, Ashraful were particularly guity of throwing their wickets away. Muralitharan got his 66th five wicket haul. Sri Lanka, would look to bowl out Bangladesh the first thing in the morning and would look to build a sizeable lead to put the match out of the reach for Bangladesh.
One can see where are we heading clearly now, Sri Lanka win for sure and probably on 4th day itself.
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