South Africa stun Australia as they crumble at 47 runs

 Perth, November 11: South Africa celebrate after Shaun Marsh's wicket

Perth, November 11: South Africa beat Austrailia in a memorable test match, that went through many twists. Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis both scored centuries to chase the 236-run target, with 8 wickets remaining.
Earlier in the 1st innings Captain Micheal Clarke played a brilliant stroke that helped Australia score 284 runs. Amla and Kallis launched the batting quiet well before Shane Watson claimed 5-wickets in a 21 balls spell. South Africa were bowled out for just 94 runs.
After taking a 188-run lead, the visitors were ceased to just 47 runs when the Proteas exploited the bowler-friendly conditions perfectly. After Dale Steyn's good opening spell, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel devastating bowling slumped Australia to their lowest total since 1902. The hosts chased target successfully in the 3rd day.
Captain Micheal Clarke described the bating disgraceful. He said, " There was enough in the wicket when it was overcast, but our shot selection was disgraceful, we nicked every thing in sight, any half lbw was given out, I can make a million excuses - the facts are we should not have been all out for 47. The top seven, we did not execute our skills well."
The second test will be played on November 17.

SCORE CARD :

Australia 284 & 47

South Africa 96 & 236/2 (50.2 ov)

South Africa won by 8 wickets

• Australia in South Africa Test Series - 1st Test
• Test no. 2016 | 2011/12 season
• Played at Newlands, Cape Town
• 9,10,11 November 2011 (5-day match)

	Australia 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SR Watson	c Kallis b Steyn	3	20	15	0	0	20.00
	PJ Hughes	c †Boucher b Philander	9	27	19	1	0	47.36
	SE Marsh	lbw b Steyn	44	157	101	8	0	43.56
	RT Ponting	lbw b Steyn	8	51	25	0	1	32.00
	MJ Clarke*	b Morkel	151	266	176	22	0	85.79
	MEK Hussey	c †Boucher b Morkel	1	25	18	0	0	5.55
	BJ Haddin†	c Prince b Steyn	5	8	8	1	0	62.50
	MG Johnson	c Morkel b Philander	20	32	22	2	0	90.90
	RJ Harris	c Morkel b Philander	5	16	10	0	0	50.00
	PM Siddle	c de Villiers b Morkel	20	73	54	2	0	37.03
	NM Lyon	not out	1	10	6	0	0	16.66
	Extras	(b 5, lb 7, w 1, nb 4)	17
	Total	(all out; 75 overs; 349 mins)	284	(3.78 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-9 (Watson, 4.3 ov), 2-13 (Hughes, 5.6 ov), 3-40 (Ponting, 16.2 ov), 4-143 (Marsh, 39.1 ov),5-158 (Hussey, 44.3 ov), 6-163 (Haddin, 45.5 ov), 7-202 (Johnson, 52.3 ov), 8-214 (Harris, 54.5 ov), 9-273 (Siddle, 72.4 ov),10-284 (Clarke, 74.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	DW Steyn	20	4	55	4	2.75
	VD Philander	21	3	63	3	3.00	(3nb, 1w)
	M Morkel	18	2	82	3	4.55	(1nb)
	Imran Tahir	10	1	35	0	3.50
	JH Kallis	6	0	37	0	6.16

	South Africa 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	JA Rudolph	b Harris	18	28	29	1	0	62.06
	GC Smith*	b Watson	37	82	48	3	0	77.08
	HM Amla	lbw b Watson	3	31	16	0	0	18.75
	JH Kallis	c Ponting b Watson	0	6	4	0	0	0.00
	AB de Villiers	lbw b Harris	8	25	9	2	0	88.88
	AG Prince	lbw b Watson	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
	MV Boucher†	lbw b Watson	4	14	7	1	0	57.14
	VD Philander	c Ponting b Harris	4	14	11	1	0	36.36
	DW Steyn	not out	9	26	18	0	0	50.00
	M Morkel	run out (Siddle)	1	5	1	0	0	100.00
	Imran Tahir	b Harris	5	15	5	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(lb 4, w 1, nb 2)	7
	Total	(all out; 24.3 overs; 130 mins)	96	(3.91 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-24 (Rudolph, 6.5 ov), 2-49 (Amla, 13.2 ov), 3-49 (Kallis, 13.6 ov), 4-73 (Smith, 17.1 ov),5-73 (Prince, 17.2 ov), 6-77 (de Villiers, 18.1 ov), 7-77 (Boucher, 19.3 ov), 8-81 (Philander, 20.6 ov), 9-83 (Morkel, 21.4 ov),10-96 (Imran Tahir, 24.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	RJ Harris	10.3	3	33	4	3.14	(1nb)
	MG Johnson	5	0	26	0	5.20	(1w)
	PM Siddle	4	1	16	0	4.00	(1nb)
	SR Watson	5	2	17	5	3.40

	Australia 2nd innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SR Watson	lbw b Steyn	4	2	3	1	0	133.33
	PJ Hughes	c Rudolph b Morkel	9	35	22	1	0	40.90
	RT Ponting	lbw b Philander	0	23	12	0	0	0.00
	MJ Clarke*	lbw b Philander	2	16	6	0	0	33.33
	MEK Hussey	c Prince b Morkel	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	BJ Haddin†	c †Boucher b Philander	0	14	3	0	0	0.00
	MG Johnson	c Amla b Philander	3	20	12	0	0	25.00
	RJ Harris	c Smith b Morkel	3	7	7	0	0	42.85
	PM Siddle	not out	12	37	16	2	0	75.00
	SE Marsh	lbw b Philander	0	5	2	0	0	0.00
	NM Lyon	c de Villiers b Steyn	14	29	24	1	0	58.33
	Extras		0
	Total	(all out; 18 overs; 95 mins)	47	(2.61 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-4 (Watson, 0.3 ov), 2-11 (Ponting, 5.3 ov), 3-13 (Hughes, 6.4 ov), 4-13 (Hussey, 6.5 ov),5-15 (Clarke, 7.3 ov), 6-18 (Haddin, 9.1 ov), 7-21 (Harris, 10.4 ov), 8-21 (Johnson, 11.2 ov), 9-21 (Marsh, 11.4 ov),10-47 (Lyon, 17.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	DW Steyn	5	1	23	2	4.60
	VD Philander	7	3	15	5	2.14
	M Morkel	6	1	9	3	1.50

	South Africa 2nd innings (target: 236 runs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GC Smith*	not out	101	232	140	15	0	72.14
	JA Rudolph	c †Haddin b Siddle	14	30	24	3	0	58.33
	HM Amla	c Clarke b Johnson	112	184	134	21	0	83.58
	JH Kallis	not out	2	14	6	0	0	33.33
	Extras	(lb 4, w 1, nb 2)	7
	Total	(2 wickets; 50.2 overs; 232 mins)	236	(4.68 runs per over)

Did not bat VD Philander, AG Prince, MV Boucher†, Imran Tahir, DW Steyn, M Morkel, AB de Villiers

Fall of wickets1-27 (Rudolph, 6.4 ov), 2-222 (Amla, 47.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	RJ Harris	14	2	67	0	4.78
	PM Siddle	12.2	0	49	1	3.97	(1nb)
	SR Watson	10	0	44	0	4.40
	MG Johnson	11	1	61	1	5.54	(1nb, 1w)
	NM Lyon	3	1	11	0	3.66

Match details

Toss South Africa, who chose to field Series South Africa led the 2-match series 1-0

Test debuts Imran Tahir and VD Philander (South Africa) Player of the match VD Philander (South Africa)

Umpires BR Doctrove (West Indies) and IJ Gould (England) TV umpire BF Bowden (New Zealand) Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire JD Cloete

Close of play 9 Nov day 1 - Australia 1st innings 214/8 (MJ Clarke 107*, PM Siddle 0*, 55 ov) 10 Nov day 2 - South Africa 2nd innings 81/1 (GC Smith 36*, HM Amla 29*, 17 ov) 11 Nov day 3 - South Africa 2nd innings 236/2 (50.2 ov) - end of matchu