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South Africa v India Played at SuperSport Park, Centurion, from 16 Dec to 20 Dec 2010
| India 2nd innings |
| Batting |
R |
B |
4s |
6s |
| G Gambhir |
lbw b Steyn |
80 |
124 |
10 |
0 |
| V Sehwag |
c Smith b Harris |
63 |
79 |
9 |
1 |
| R Dravid |
c Boucher b M Morkel |
43 |
109 |
6 |
0 |
| I Sharma |
c HM Amla b Steyn |
23 |
51 |
4 |
0 |
| SR Tendulkar |
not out |
111 |
241 |
13 |
1 |
| VVS Laxman |
c de Villiers b Tsotsobe |
8 |
21 |
2 |
0 |
| SK Raina |
c Harris b Kallis |
5 |
13 |
0 |
0 |
| MS Dhoni |
c Boucher b Steyn |
90 |
106 |
14 |
0 |
| Harbhajan Singh |
c Kallis b Harris |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| S Sreesanth |
c de Villiers b M Morkel |
3 |
18 |
0 |
0 |
| JD Unadkat |
c Prince b Steyn |
1 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
| Extras |
(b 13, lb 5, w 8, nb 5) |
31 |
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| Total |
(10 wickets; 128.1 overs) |
459 |
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| Fall of wickets |
| 1-137 (Sehwag, 29.3 ov); 2-170 (Gambhir, 39.2 ov); 3-214 (Sharma, 54.4 ov); 4-242 (Dravid, 64.5 ov); 5-256 (Laxman, 72.5 ov); 6-277 (Raina, 77.5 ov); 7-449 (Dhoni, 118.2 ov); 8-450 (Harbhajan, 119.1 ov); 9-456 (Sreesanth, 125.5 ov); 10-459 (Unadkat, 128.1 ov) |
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Result: South Africa won by an innings and 25 runs
India 136 & 459
South Africa 620/4 dec
MOM: JH Kallis
Toss: South Africa elected to field
Umpires: Steve Davis, Ian Gould
Third-umpire: Shaun George
Referee: Andy Pycroft |
| Bowling |
O |
M |
R |
W |
| Steyn |
30.1 |
6 |
105 |
4 |
| M Morkel |
31 |
6 |
94 |
2 |
| Tsotsobe |
24 |
3 |
98 |
1 |
| Harris |
30 |
5 |
88 |
2 |
| Kallis |
13 |
3 |
56 |
1 |
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| South Africa 1st innings |
| Batting |
R |
B |
4s |
6s |
| Graeme Smith |
c Dhoni b Harbhajan |
62 |
87 |
11 |
0 |
| Alviro Petersen |
c Gambhir b Harbhajan |
77 |
114 |
9 |
1 |
| Hashim Amla |
c Dhoni b Sharma |
140 |
202 |
14 |
1 |
| Jacques Kallis |
not out |
201 |
270 |
15 |
5 |
| AB de Villiers |
c Dhoni b Sharma |
129 |
112 |
12 |
5 |
| Ashwell Prince |
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| Mark Boucher |
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| LL Tsotsobe |
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| PL Harris |
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| Dale Steyn |
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| Morne Morkel |
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| Extras |
(b 2, lb 3, w 2, nb 4) |
11 |
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| Total |
(4 wickets dec; 130.1 overs) |
620 |
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| Bowling |
O |
M |
R |
W |
| Sreesanth |
24 |
1 |
97 |
0 |
| Sharma |
27.1 |
2 |
120 |
2 |
| Unadkat |
26 |
4 |
101 |
0 |
| Harbhajan |
36 |
2 |
169 |
2 |
| Raina |
7 |
0 |
77 |
0 |
| Tendulkar |
10 |
1 |
51 |
0 |
| Fall of wickets |
| 1-111 (Smith, 26.3 ov); 2-166 (Petersen, 40.1 ov); 3-396 (HM Amla, 92.3 ov); 4-620 (de Villiers, 130.1 ov) |
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| India 1st innings |
| Batting |
R |
B |
4s |
6s |
| G Gambhir |
c Harris b M Morkel |
5 |
43 |
0 |
0 |
| V Sehwag |
c HM Amla b Steyn |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| R Dravid |
lbw b M Morkel |
14 |
42 |
2 |
0 |
| SR Tendulkar |
lbw b Steyn |
36 |
34 |
8 |
0 |
| VVS Laxman |
b Steyn |
7 |
20 |
1 |
0 |
| SK Raina |
c Prince b Kallis |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| MS Dhoni |
lbw b M Morkel |
33 |
50 |
2 |
2 |
| Harbhajan Singh |
run out (Petersen) |
27 |
25 |
4 |
1 |
| I Sharma |
c Kallis b M Morkel |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| S Sreesanth |
c Steyn b M Morkel |
0 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
| JD Unadkat |
not out |
1 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| Extras |
(lb 6, w 3, nb 3) |
12 |
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| Total |
(10 wickets; 38.4 overs) |
136 |
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| Bowling |
O |
M |
R |
W |
| Steyn |
10 |
1 |
34 |
3 |
| M Morkel |
12.4 |
5 |
20 |
5 |
| Tsotsobe |
9 |
2 |
50 |
0 |
| Kallis |
6 |
1 |
20 |
1 |
| Harris |
1 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
| Fall of wickets |
| 1-1 (Sehwag, 2.1 ov); 2-24 (Gambhir, 12.6 ov); 3-27 (Dravid, 14.4 ov); 4-66 (Laxman, 22.2 ov); 5-67 (Raina, 23.1 ov); 6-71 (Tendulkar, 24.4 ov); 7-110 (Harbhajan, 32.1 ov); 8-110 (Sharma, 32.3 ov); 9-116 (Sreesanth, 34.5 ov); 10-136 (Dhoni, 38.4 ov) |
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The Jukskei River is overflowing following heavy rainfall overnight across Gauteng.
@ Bullscot:
Strauss always looks a nervous starter , but Cook look in great form.
Hello,
It rained here heavily, right through the night, no let up at all.
Cannot see that there will be ANY cricket today at Centurion…
@ superBul:
Yip Cook has been piling on the runs this Ashes, he must be feeling really confident, a class batsmen and it was worth it for England to perservere with him through his lean patch.
Sun is trying to shine in Kempton now.
@ grootblousmile:
Howzit gbs how you been keeping mate? Seems like you have been getting loads of rain, but is it not clearing up at Centurion now, surely they will get a good deal of play in today still if the field can be dry enough.
@ Scrumdown:
Thats good news Scrumdown, even if Kempton is a wee distance from Centurion, hope they get going soon, if they can start will they miss the scheduled lunch break and just get on with it. Do you know if they will be playing with the floodlights on to extend play if there is bad light during this series?
Hi all. England are going to smash Australia in this test again. I hope this rain calms down now,we do need it but its been a bit out of hand these past few days.
I think best case scenario they would start after tea because that field looks absolutely water logged.
@ Bullscot:
I’m sitting at the office trying to get some work done so no tv I’m afraid, therefore can’t offer any insight your questions.
Maybe Super can tell us.
12.00 pm: Sidharth Monga went for a short walk at SuperSport Park and could see his shadow. Covers are coming off, it is bright and sunny now. There are even some fans on the grass embankment. A small group.
@ Winston:
Hi there Winston, see its just close of play and the openers have survived, so if they can just play themselves back in for the first half hour tomorrow then England may be looking at quite a healthy lead by the close of play tomorrow. Will this match make it to day 5? Would expect Swann to take lots of wickets if Aus are batting on day 4. Although cricket has a knack of surprising one and sometimes doing exactly the opposite of what you would expect, so I guess its still quite early to be speculating on that.
GBS
I’m trying to open an OLD Quatro Pro .wb3 file with Open Office but the program doesn’t seem to recognise it.
Any advise on how I might be able to open it?
66@ Bullscot:
Hello Bully, man here in our garden the water is not even sinking into the ground anymore it’s so wet.
The light is also very poor.
Let’s hope Centurion is far enough away and the sun makes a desperate attempt to come out fully.
Wonder what the batting strip and bowling run-ups are looking like though…
Hope there is enough grass on the batting strip to assist our fast attack.
That’s stumps on what has been another day dominated by England. Strauss and Cook have done well to get through until the close without any damage and they’ll pick up tomorrow looking to chip away at Australia’s 268, which was not a good enough score on a pretty good batting pitch. There was some swing early for England and Tremlett in particular bowled well, while the Australian top order, in what is becoming a recurring theme, simply couldn’t handle the moving ball and couldn’t judge which balls to play. There’s a big task ahead of Ricky Ponting’s men tomorrow as they face the prospect of seeing England retain the Ashes if the visitors win in Perth.
12.07 pm: The super sopper is out doing its thing, super sopping the outfield. Sunshine continues.
73@ Scrumdown:
Brother, you’re not far away in Kempton, climb into your car and bring the file with, I’ve got Corel WordPerfect Suite X5 (of which Quattro Pro is a part), I’ll open it for you, save it to Excel… and give you the bonus of a full version of Corel WP X5 and / or MS Office 2007 or 2010…
@ Scrumdown:
ok thanks man, don’t work too hard.
@ grootblousmile:
I’m tempted but am VERY busy trying to get designs out before the weekend.
I’m supposed to be going to the farm to pick the wife up on Monday so time is tight.
Hi Bullscot,your assessment seems about right. Strauss is due for runs and the rest of the top order is in amazing form. I reckon they will score at least 450 and get about a 200 run lead and Swann will bowl them out again. But Johnson was looking good at the end of the day so maybe he has woken up and will play to his potential,the back up looks a bit thin though.
12.12 pm: The super sopper is out doing its thing, super-sopping the outfield. Sunshine continues. The South African team is on its way to SuperSport Park. India are expected to leave Jo’burg at 12.30 pm.
@ grootblousmile:
74 Well I’m sure the farmers will be welcoming the rain as long as it doesn’t go on to long and stop them getting their lucern dry, or is it too early in the season for that?
It started snowing here just over 3 weeks ago, stopped for about 5 days and now its back again, can make it a bit hard for travel but it is really great fun to be out in the snow, brought my wee one back from school on a sledge last week, took about an hour cause we went up and down some slopes on the way, man it was tiring.
Do you know if they will be using floodlights in this series if there is poor light?
I’m not sure but I know they are not using the referral system which I think is retarded to say the least.
Australia’s problems continued on the opening day at the WACA as they struggled to 268 against more impressive bowling from England, but even that represented a fightback after another top-order meltdown. Chris Tremlett was the stand-out performer on his recall with three wickets, while James Anderson shook off concerns over jet-lag with three for himself. During the morning the hosts were in tatters at 4 for 36 but managed to haul themselves to respectability as Mitchell Johnson top-scored with 62.
Mike Hussey’s prolific form continued with 61, as did his strong partnership with Brad Haddin who made 53, but it’s a sign of the problems Australia are facing that they need to cling to half-centuries as moments of success. The lower order rallied with some style however, that can’t gloss over more worrying failures from the top of the list as the country’s leading batsmen struggled to adapt to home conditions.
England’s openers survived 12 overs until the close with Alastair Cook upper-cutting a six to third man, but Andrew Strauss flashed a chance past Hussey in the gully which the fielder didn’t appear to pick up in the setting sun. The quick bowlers tried banging the ball in, although Ryan Harris was off target and there wasn’t much swing for Ben Hilfenhaus. It continued to make a stark contrast to England.
@ Puma:
Former captain Steve Waugh says a lack of stability is a prime reason for Australia’s woes in the Test arena.
Australia has failed to win any of its last five Tests but must reverse the trend in the third Test against England in Perth if it’s to have any chance of taking back the Ashes.
Waugh, who tasted defeat in only nine of 57 Tests as skipper, says selectors are not showing enough faith in players and it’s taking its toll on the side.
What the selectors have got to do, which they did back then (when Waugh was playing), is have belief in the younger players they pick and say ‘you are there, we believe in you, we think you are the future of Australian cricket and you are going to have a bit of leeway’. It’s not always going to be successful early days, I guess I was a perfect example – I didn’t score a hundred until my 26th Test and I never won a Test until my 13th Test playing for Australia. You have to see the bigger picture and you can’t just chop and change if someone fails in one Test and doesn’t look the goods, you have got to give them an opportunity.
@ Winston 80:
Will be interesting, Englands batting line up is looking full of runs but I think the major contributor to Englands improving performances must be Swann, he is a match winner not just a containing spinner like they had for all those years with Giles. Panesar also started with a bang then lost form and Swann grabbed his opportunity so well that even though Panesar is back to taking lots of wickets he can’t make it back into the team. Now that Murali and Warne are gone I think Swann must be among the top spinners at the moment.
Anyway cheers all for now, must try get some rest, hopefully the game will start today at Centurion.
The Australians are a worried Cricketing nation now.
Should Ricky Ponting be replaced as Australian captain?
Yes
71.43%
(65 votes)
No
28.57%
(26 votes)
CHAOS. Total and utter chaos. And a new form of criticism, Rod Marsh claiming Michael Clarke cannot be Test captain because he has tattoos.
Australia’s chances of regaining the Ashes plummeted as James Anderson continued his mauling of Ricky Ponting on a helter-skelter opening day of the third Ashes Test.
Rearguard actions from Mike Hussey, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson saved Australia from complete humiliation – just – at the WACA Ground but the top-order batting was still a lethal cocktail of disappointment and disaster.
Australia was on its knees at 5-69 before scrounging together 268.
Half-centuries from Test captaincy bolter Hussey (61), Haddin (53) and Johnson (62), plus late slogging from Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus, added much-needed respectability.
Five of the top six batsmen failed.
Swann is a very good bowler,he can bat and is a decent slip fielder. Take care Bullscot.
79@ Scrumdown:
Hey, your loss…. come on, don’t be such a pissy…. I mean damnit, there’s free software in the offer… hehehe
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