Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Australian team: Langer, Hayden, Ponting, Martyn, Hussey, Symonds, Gilchrist, Warne, Lee, Kasprowicz, Clarke.
SA team: N Boje, MV Boucher, AB de Villiers, HH Gibbs, JH Kallis, A Nel, M Ntini, SM Pollock, AG Prince, JA Rudolph, GC Smith
Australia currently 57/1
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Sedated start by Aussies standards, just getting together I guess.
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73/1 at lunch.
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Aus 228/5 EOD, Ponting scored 103 off 225 balls! Langer scored 35 off 125 balls! that tells how testing was SAffie bowling :k:
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Ponting matches Bradman landmark (29 Test Centuries)
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Ponting is on the verge of greatness
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^^ yes and he will be rewarded by the aussies selectors in the same way S. Waugh was :p kicked out of the team :D
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Aus 311/7
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Aus 329/9
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Economy Rates of two main strike bowlers:
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Lee** = 5.6 (9 overs for 50)
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Kasprowicz** = 4.1 (7 overs for 29)
This is also interesting. Australian innings, as compared to SA innings at the same stage in 39.1 overs, had scored 97 with the loss of two wickets.
Australia = (97 for 2 in 39.1 overs)
South Africa = (140 for 2 in 39.1 overs)
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There run rate is all about the change in Kallis. He is now playing his shots and his strike rate is improving. God he played some good shots this morning. Breathtaking.
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** Australia 369 & 125/1 (36.0 ov)
**** South Africa 267
Despite Kallis' century and DeVilliers' 50, SAffies could only manage 267 and in 2nd inning Aussies keep building up, a lead of 227 already.
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well lets hope Gibbs and Smith can play well in the 2nd innings coz Kallis is all battered up and his 2nd innings record is not that impressive.
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some of day 3 clips can be seen here
http://video.foxsports.news.com.au/video.php
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one more centuri for ponting ..... at this rate ...god knows what will happen ...
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South Africa 111-2 chasing 410 runs.
70 overs left in the day
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if one more wicket falls "Kallis" they cant go for the chase for sure!!!
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and Kallis out, with that the hopes of chasing the total goes with him to the dressing room.