A win today was never really on, so though AB de Villiers got a half century, his wicket just before tea saw Harris and Steyn having to guts it out for a while with the lightning-weather looming around the SCG giving them hope. Ntini then came out and did a Courtney Walsh (with Brian Lara years ago). Only Ntini did it longer and better.

Watching Makhaya and Steyn was breathtaking – Steyn continued to play his shots while Ntini played like he knew his three stumps better than any top batsman: every ball on the stumps hit the middle of the bat and every ball outside offstump was played and missed perfectly.

Graeme Smith who was sitting in the balcony changed into his test match clothes when it came down to 20 odd overs left. When Steyn was finally out, the SCG gave Smith a standing ovation as he walked out despite his broken finger/part of the hand just above the little finger. That’s his left hand. The right elbow was also damaged and though he deserves all the credit he has been getting, he probably had no choice anyhow, considering the Steyn-Ntini stand.

Mitchell Johnson who broke Smith’s hand bowled his first 4 balls to Smith on a leavable line and got booed in the process. But he eventually got him with 10 deliveries left in the day with a super ball and what could have been a sensational draw ended in a loss for SA much like it did a year back for India at the same ground – though this was a deserved win for Australia unlike a year back where it was handed to them by Bucknor and Benson

Boucher got a poor decision that probably didn’t matter in the end. On the Aussie front, Matthew Hayden was probably the happiest with the win, not because it might give him another shot at test cricket but because he dropped Ntini a few overs before the game eventually ended.

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Overall an exciting and interesting test series ends today with South Africa winning the series and Both Australia and South Africa are scheduled to play 2 T20’s followed by a 5 match ODI series over next 20 days.

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Scoreline: SA 327 all out. Mark Boucher 89. Morne Morkel 40. Peter Siddle 5 wickets.
Aus: 33/0. Overall lead 151

The morning session featured engrossing cricket that slowly petered out and then picked up again. Boucher and Morkel pulled South Africa back into the game before a late burst of wickets by Siddle pushed them down again. The South African innings was also marked by bizarre luck – an escaped LBW and TWO occasions when the ball clipped the stumps without dislodging the bails.

There was an interesting moment just before the Aussies came out to bat. Shane Warne can be heard yelling to the South Africans – “give the new ball to Morkel” – the advice wasn’t taken by stand-in captain McKenzie and though Matthew Hayden survived a plumb LBW shout from Dale Steyn in the very first over, Ntini from the other end hardly troubled him during his brief stay.

With the pitch really playing weird on Day 3, Smith out of the test match, and a lead of 151, unless Steyn and Morkel can produce something sensational tomorrow, the Aussies could well make it 2-1.

Australia lead by 151 runs. Hayden and Katich punch gloves and walk off. They’ve added 33 without loss. Its been Australia’ day. South Africa lost three wickets this morning and then another in the middle session to slump to 5 for 162 before the rearguard from Boucher and Morkel. Then Peter Siddle struck four four times and South Africa finished up on 9 for 327, handing Australia a 118-run lead. Siddle was the man for Australia, taking his first five-for in Tests.

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Clarke, Johnson and Hauritz helped Aussies reach a total of 445 which seemed difficult at end of Day 1. Proteas played carefully and in a good position to reach big score. South Africa need atleast one big innings from Kallis/Amla to be in good position at end of Day 3.

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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.