Australia V South Africa 2nd Test

Day 1
Australian Captain Ricky Pointing won the won the toss and choose to bat first on a flat batting track. Australian team had a little doubt about the fitness of their both the opening bowlers but they were still in the team. Both the teams were playing with unchanged side.

Australian had a very good start. They had the opening partnership of 184.Hughes scored his 1^stKatich also scored more then hundred. Australia finished the first day at the score of 303 with the loss of 4 wickets. Paul Harris took 2 wickets and Steyn and Kallis both got 1 wicket each. So day 1 certainly belonged to Australian. test hundred and was out on the score 115.Other opener

Day 2

Australia resumed their innings on day 2 and were not able to score as much runs as they would have liked and they got all out at the score of 352.M.Hussey scored 50 and Steyn got three wickets for South Africa.

South Africa started their batting with the hope that their captain would give then a good solid start but it got all wrong for South Africa till the end of the first over, Grame Smith got injured of the bowling of Mitchell Johnson and also Hamish Amla got LBW in the same over with only 2 runs on board.Mitchell Johnson bowled really well and took three wickets till the end of the day , also McDonald took three wickets.No South African batsmen was looking comfortable apart from JP Duminy.Till the end of the South Africa were 138/7 with JP Duminy on 73 and Steyn 8.

Day 3

It took just 3 balls from Peter Siddle to dismiss the two remaining wickets of South Africa and JP Duminy just watched them get out.South Africa was bowled out for 138 means they were 254 short of the Australian score.

So again Australia got lead of more then 200 but they didn't followed on South Africa and chose to bat.Katich and Hughes again had nice opening partnership.They shared the opening partnership of 55.And after the fall of the first wicket Pointing and Hughes shared the partnership of 164.Pointing fall short of hundred making 81 and was out caught in the deep at the Bowling of M Morkel.Hughes again scored hundred and became the youngest player to make hundreds in the both innings of the match.Till the end of the day Australia were 292 with the loss of 3 wickets with Hughes on 136 and M J Clarke on 14 and they are leading by 506 runs.

Day 4

Australia added 44 to their over night score and then declared their inning.Hughes got out on the score of 160 and M J Clarke was not out 23.

With a big target of 551 to chase Australia didn't their captain to bat , so the openers were McKenzie and Amla.They shared the opening partnership of 63.McKenzie got out at 31 and Amla got out at 43 , both of these wicket were taken by Siddle.Then Kallis and AB de Villiers had a partnership till the end of the day.At the end of the day 4 South Africa were 301 runs behind with the loss of three wickets and their would not be able to bat.AB de Villiers was not out on 68 and Kallis was not out on 84.

Day 5

South African team was hoping that AB de Villiers and Kallis may be able to bat for a long time and save the game for their team.But Kallis and AB de Villiers were removed early in the day by the Australians.Dumminy also got a good one from Siddle and thus South Africa lost their 9 wickets before and and Grame Smith was not able to bat because of injury.

So ,Australia won the series and Hughes got the man of the match.

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