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Australia in South Africa

Johnson going to town on Harris, taking him for 26 off that over, 4, 4, 6, 0, 6, 6. Quality hitting.
 
not quite the 26 of the Harris over but Johnson gets another 12 off Steyn and is only 4 short of his maiden century
 
Morkel well over the line as Siddle edges to slip, let off for Australia.

I don't think I've ever seen that, a no ball edge but he makes amends with the next ball, Australia 9 down, can Hilfenhaus survive long enough to see Johnson to his century?
 
Hilfenhaus gone first ball and Johnson is left stranded on 96, aw that's gutting, if anyone deserved a century it was Johnson.

Still though Australia well in control on 466.
 
he does time the ball well but he's hardly an all rounder, still likely to get out early more often than not playing the way he does.
 
given how he batted in Australia Duminy is the one player you don't want to be dropping, more surprising that it's Ponting though.
 
SA is serious trouble now, looks like the weather may be their only saviour in this test, only hope now is that Steyn can hang around with De Villiers for a while. Harris was unlucky as Bucknor yet again gets a call wrong, good thing he's retiring.
 
Lunch on day 3 and Australia well in charge of this test as they have been since losing those 3 early wickets in their first innings.

SA 158-8 needing over 100 runs to avoid the follow on, given the conditions you'd think the Aussies would enforce it as well.
 
300+ runs behind I think it's a safe bet to write them off, conditions are favouring the bowlers, SA are scoring at a very low rate which isn't helping their cause and they're even getting the luck with the decisions.
 
Australia unsuccessfully use a referral against De Villiers, but the 3rd umpire backs up the umpires decision with height probably being the deciding factor.
 
Steyn edges to slip, so will De Villiers like Johnson be stranded in the 90s or can Ntini hang around long enough to get him to the milestone.
 
and De Villiers does make it to his hundred, big thing for SA now is whether they can avoid the follow on, still quite an ask at this stage some 50 runs short.
 
Johnson wraps things up bowling Ntini, let's see now whether they enforce the follow on. Commentators seem to think they'll bat again.
 
Australia's lead approaching 300 now, will be interesting to see how far they go given that SA chased down over 400 at Perth, could cost the Aussies the win if they bat too long and there's a vast improvement in the second innings from the South Africans
 
makes things more interesting but given the length of their tail they're still likely to build a huge lead.
 

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