South Africa’s Proteas cricket team and Australia went head to head and toe to toe in the first of 3, Five-Day cricket Tests at SuperSport Park, Centurion from Thursday 12 February. THe match ended more than a full day early, with Australia winning by 281 runs..
The match started at 10:30 SA Time on 12 February 2014.
South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first.
This was the Live Game Article, where we updated the scores from time to time during the Day’s play and where the cricket supporters amongst us had have the opportunity to discuss the game.
Australia:
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First Innings – 397 All Out (122 Overs)
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Second Innings – 290 / 4 Declared (72.2 Overs)
South Africa:
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First Innings – 206 All Out (61.1 Overs)
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Second Innings – 200 All Out (59.4 Overs)
Australia win by 281 runs, with more than a full day spare
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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CJL Rogers | c Duminy b Morkel | 4 | 36 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 21.05 |
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DA Warner | b Steyn | 12 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 75.00 |
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AJ Doolan | c Peterson b McLaren | 27 | 85 | 51 | 5 | 0 | 52.94 |
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SE Marsh | c Smith b Philander | 148 | 428 | 288 | 15 | 0 | 51.38 |
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MJ Clarke* | c Philander b Steyn | 23 | 47 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 51.11 |
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SPD Smith | c Petersen b McLaren | 100 | 288 | 213 | 13 | 0 | 46.94 |
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BJ Haddin† | lbw b Peterson | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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MG Johnson | b Peterson | 33 | 70 | 54 | 6 | 0 | 61.11 |
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RJ Harris | b Steyn | 19 | 46 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 61.29 |
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PM Siddle | b Steyn | 2 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 |
| NM Lyon | not out | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 8, w 11, nb 2) | 25 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 122 overs; 527 mins) | 397 | (3.25 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets 1-15 (Warner, 4.1 ov), 2-24 (Rogers, 8.2 ov), 3-72 (Doolan, 23.1 ov), 4-98 (Clarke, 33.5 ov), 5-331 (Smith, 103.3 ov), 6-332 (Haddin, 104.1 ov), 7-348 (Marsh, 108.3 ov), 8-391 (Harris, 119.3 ov), 9-391 (Johnson, 120.1 ov), 10-397 (Siddle, 121.6 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DW Steyn | 29 | 6 | 78 | 4 | 2.68 | (1w) |
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VD Philander | 24 | 5 | 69 | 1 | 2.87 | |
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M Morkel | 22 | 5 | 73 | 1 | 3.31 | (1w) |
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R McLaren | 20 | 4 | 72 | 2 | 3.60 | (2nb, 1w) |
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RJ Peterson | 15 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 3.26 | |
| JP Duminy | 12 | 1 | 44 | 0 | 3.66 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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GC Smith* | c Marsh b Johnson | 10 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 125.00 |
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AN Petersen | c †Haddin b Johnson | 2 | 24 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 |
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HM Amla | lbw b Siddle | 17 | 54 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 40.47 |
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F du Plessis | c Clarke b Johnson | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 |
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AB de Villiers† | c Warner b Johnson | 91 | 241 | 148 | 10 | 2 | 61.48 |
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JP Duminy | c Johnson b Lyon | 25 | 77 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 52.08 |
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R McLaren | b Johnson | 8 | 37 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 24.24 |
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RJ Peterson | c Clarke b Johnson | 10 | 28 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 43.47 |
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VD Philander | lbw b Lyon | 15 | 54 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 42.85 |
| DW Steyn | not out | 7 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 53.84 | |
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M Morkel | c †Haddin b Johnson | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (b 14, lb 2, w 1, nb 1) | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 61.1 overs; 281 mins) | 206 | (3.36 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets 1-11 (Smith, 1.4 ov), 2-15 (Petersen, 5.3 ov), 3-23 (du Plessis, 7.1 ov), 4-43 (Amla, 12.6 ov), 5-110 (Duminy, 30.5 ov), 6-126 (McLaren, 39.2 ov), 7-140 (Peterson, 45.1 ov), 8-189 (Philander, 57.2 ov), 9-202 (de Villiers, 59.6 ov), 10-206 (Morkel, 61.1 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJ Harris | 17 | 3 | 51 | 0 | 3.00 | ||
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MG Johnson | 17.1 | 1 | 68 | 7 | 3.96 | (1w) |
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PM Siddle | 13 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 2.53 | (1nb) |
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NM Lyon | 14 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 2.71 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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CJL Rogers | b Steyn | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 |
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DA Warner | c Smith b Peterson | 115 | 208 | 151 | 13 | 2 | 76.15 |
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AJ Doolan | c †de Villiers b Duminy | 89 | 247 | 154 | 12 | 1 | 57.79 |
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SE Marsh | c †de Villiers b Steyn | 44 | 106 | 84 | 5 | 1 | 52.38 |
| MJ Clarke* | not out | 17 | 61 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 41.46 | |
| Extras | (b 3, lb 14, w 7) | 24 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets dec; 72.2 overs) | 290 | (4.00 runs per over) | |||||
Did not batSPD Smith, BJ Haddin†, MG Johnson, PM Siddle, RJ Harris, NM Lyon
Fall of wickets 1-1 (Rogers, 1.1 ov), 2-206 (Warner, 46.5 ov), 3-243 (Doolan, 57.1 ov), 4-290 (Marsh, 72.2 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VD Philander | 11 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 2.54 | ||
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DW Steyn | 14.2 | 2 | 61 | 2 | 4.25 | (1w) |
| R McLaren | 11 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 4.27 | (1w) | |
| M Morkel | 13 | 4 | 38 | 0 | 2.92 | ||
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RJ Peterson | 19 | 0 | 87 | 1 | 4.57 | (5w) |
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JP Duminy | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 3.00 |
| South Africa 2nd innings (target: 482 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AN Petersen | c †Haddin b Johnson | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 |
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GC Smith* | c Doolan b Johnson | 4 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 |
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HM Amla | c Marsh b Harris | 35 | 71 | 6 | 0 | 49.29 | |
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F du Plessis | lbw b Siddle | 18 | 58 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 38.29 |
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AB de Villiers† | c Smith b Johnson | 48 | 90 | 5 | 0 | 53.33 | |
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JP Duminy | c Doolan b Johnson | 10 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
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R McLaren | c †Haddin b Johnson | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 31.57 | |
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RJ Peterson | b Siddle | 21 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 91.30 | |
| VD Philander | not out | 26 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 144.44 | ||
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DW Steyn | c Clarke b Harris | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
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M Morkel | run out (Lyon/†Haddin) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Extras | (b 10, lb 5, w 11, nb 1) | 27 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 59.4 overs) | 200 | (3.35 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets 1-6 (Petersen, 1.5 ov), 2-12 (Smith, 3.4 ov), 3-49 (du Plessis, 16.5 ov), 4-97 (Amla, 29.4 ov), 5-128 (Duminy, 45.4 ov), 6-140 (McLaren, 49.3 ov), 7-151 (de Villiers, 51.6 ov), 8-165 (Peterson, 54.6 ov), 9-178 (Steyn, 57.3 ov), 10-200 (Morkel, 59.4 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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RJ Harris | 12.4 | 5 | 35 | 2 | 2.76 | (1w) |
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MG Johnson | 16 | 3 | 59 | 5 | 3.68 | (1nb, 2w) |
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PM Siddle | 16 | 6 | 55 | 2 | 3.43 | |
| DA Warner | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1.50 | ||
| NM Lyon | 13 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 2.53 |
Match details
Series – Australia led the 3-match series 1-0
Player of the match – tba
TV umpire – IJ Gould (England)
Match referee – RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire – AT Holdstock
- – day 1 – Australia 1st innings 297/4 (SE Marsh 122*, SPD Smith 91*, 90 ov)
- – day 2 – South Africa 1st innings 140/6 (AB de Villiers 52*, RJ Peterson 10*, 43.3 ov)
- – day 3 – Australia 2nd innings 288/3 (SE Marsh 44*, MJ Clarke 17*, 69 ov)
@ Just For Kicks:
Hello Kicker, hoe gannit, ek hoop goed. Groete van GT aan Beanie.
Aus 61 / 1 after 18 overs.
Blomme have shot their bolt in this Test, Aus already lead by 252
@ Pietman:Dankie, man. Mary’s just left for work, and sends her regards back. All well here, busy, unfortunately, and not much time to sit and relax with a beer, rugby and cricket (in that order), I am afraid.
How are you? It sounds like you are in SA at the moment, if so, I hope you are enjoying the break.
@ Just For Kicks:
Yip, my semester break, but back to the desert again on March 2. Enjoying every moment, great weather down here at GooseBay.
Stay well bro’, maybe we could hook up during Rugby WC 2015.
@ Pietman:Definitely – Going to put together a top flight whisky tasting for all the RT lads when you come over – great news is, we have a taxi driver – GBS refuses to drink the stuff, so we will toast him as we sip away, and thank him profusely in the morning at breakfast for getting us all home safely. What a great leader he is!
155 @ Just For Kicks:
Nou maak jy vir WOLF, skaapwagter!! …. hehehe
@ Just For Kicks:
No worries, you can hand me GBS’s drum of the good stuff…don’t know about him driving us home though, he does have a habit of landing in ditches and wrapping his car around trees.
Think we can safely say we will lose this test. Damn was hoping we would be far better than this and we should have been because we are better than this. Still say if we batted first we may have had a better go at them.
At least the u19 boys gave the windies a good hiding winning by 94 runs
@ Puma:
Yes, maybe should have batted first, with Amla and Smith departing cheaply it was always going to be uphill. Now, pray for rain boet!
I got a lot of flak from a blogger yesterday when I expressed that the captain did the wrong thing. The writing was on the wall from the toss when he decided to field. We just have to pray for rain and lots of it… Our bake has been baked in this test and the Ozzies are gloating already and will be taking so much confidence into the remaining games… A hard lesson learnt.
@ Pietman:
snap~!
One cannot believe that we are playing on the same pitch… We made it look hostile and they make it look docile… :lo:
@ Gumboots:
@163 Very poetic image that, touche!!!
160 @ Pietman:
Yes the rain would be the only thing to help us here. Though we in a bit of a heat wave here in Durbs and there in Pretoria so probably no rain forecast boet.
163 @ Gumboots:
hahahaha
For sure spot on Bill.
3 Drop catches…naar
Aussie already have a lead of 338, with 9 wickets standing…. eish!
aus 147 / 1 after 34 overs.
168 @ grootblousmile:
Oz will win this test and we had better hope we on top of it in PE. We normally not great in PE.
Fark, Warner already has his TON and Doolan already has his half-ton!
I am so glad I didn’t get tickets for tomorrow. It is going to be painful!
169 @ Puma:
They should win, yes… there is a heap of time left to bowl the Blomme flenters!
@ grootblousmile:
So Oz look like they are on the up – we don’t look anything like the # 1 test team
Do you see the
in the pitch? I don’t…
173 @ Gumboots:
Pity as we were really great last year. Not sure what has happened to this team, could be that Gary Kirsten has left. Really thought we would be a match for them. Stupid to have bowled first at Centurion you win the toss there you always bat first.
174 @ Gumboots:
Think we miss Kallis he often saved us from a loss. Pity he retired from test cricket before this series.
Our fielding has been worse that the Zululand cheese and wine team today, Aus just really got under our skins, Johnson has been a freak of nature.
171 @ Gumboots:
For sure would have been money wasted. Then they might surprise us when they come to bat and hold on. They done that in Melbourne in 2008. Think we were down 8 wickets and Duminy and Steyn batted like damn heros there and got us a win from looking at a loss to win that was one of our best wins I felt. So here is to hoping we can come out and bat better.
173 @ Gumboots:
169 @ Puma:
167 @ MacroBull:
Fellas, just quickly… how’s the site page load speed at the moment?
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The new Caching Plugin I’m now using is much simpler, lighter and evaluates SQL Database queries in a totally different way, causing far less stress on CPU load… or is supposed to do so.
On my side it is actually faster than before, just want to hear if it’s OK your side too.
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Aus has just outplayed us, our temperament looks defeated. I can’t watch this.
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