Day 2 : RSA vs AUS 1st Test Video Highlights Online Free.

by goravchhajer | November 10, 2011 at 08:25 pm
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South Africa 81 for 1 (Smith 36*, Amla 29*) and 96 (Watson 5-17, Harris 4-33) need 155 runs to beatAustralia 284 (Clarke 151, Steyn 4-55) and 47 (Philander 5-15, Morkel 3-9)

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Watch the Highlights of Day 2, South Africa vs Australia, 1st Test Match of the South Africa vs Australia 2011. The match will be played/hosted at Newlands, Cape Town. Schedule time of Match is 10:30 Local Time (08:30 GMT). The match is schedule to be played on Nov 9, 2011. Watch free video highlights of RSA vs AUS match online for free.

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South Africa's batsmen were on course for a most extraordinary Test victory by stumps after Australia had contrived to be splintered for 47, and in doing so kick away a dominant position on an incomprehensible second day at Newlands.
In all, 23 wickets fell for 294 runs, 19 of them in an uninterrupted landslide of skilful bowling and abject batting between lunch and the first hour after tea.
Australia's 47 was their lowest total since 1902 and fourth lowest of all time, overshadowing the fact that South Africa had themselves been routed for a comparatively bountiful 96 in the afternoon, and left the hosts with a target of only 236 having given up a first-innings lead of 188.
Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla played with poise and power in the chase, demonstrating that the Cape Town surface was far from the treacherous strip it had appeared when the Australians batted a second time. In what must have felt to the tourists like the final insult, Amla sliced the final ball of the day to gully, where Michael Hussey dropped it.
The cascade of wickets added further lustre to a monumental 151 by the Australian captain Michael Clarke, who had shepherded the tail on the second morning to reach an ultimately handsome total of 284 from the overnight tally of 214 for 8. But he and his team will now feel aghast at how they have managed to surrender so much hard-won ground in a single 

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