Australia's case

For the prosecution

Exhibit A, the shield match between new texas and the warriors:

QLD 208
WA 206
QLD 321
WA 196

Two evenly matched teams, Queensland set WA 324 to win, WA fell apart even with Pomersbach, North, Voges and Ronchi.

Cross examination: Noffke and Harris are two accurate bowlers for the last day, and SOS MArsh was missing that day.

Exhibit B, the shield match between the map of tassie and the warriors.

TAS 187
WA 283
TAS 292
WA 6/197

This one has some interesting stories.

Tasmania got 6 wickets without Ben Hilfenhaus who had broken down after taking 3 wickets in the first innings, and this season he is averaging less than 20 a wicket.

And this is the pitch they are playing on, and it’s the only shield match that has been played on it that I am aware of.

Cross Examination: This may have been the same pitch, but it's two different sides, and sometimes small totals are harder to chase.

Key Points

The wickets on this pitch have dome on average of 9 a day, and no matter how many times the commentators say the wicket gets better as the game goes, it doesn’t seem to change much.

Haddin and Krejza are still in, with two batsmen who made contributions in the first innings to come.

South Africa already need to better their first innings by 40 runs, and that was made without the pressure of a chase, and 25 run last wicket partnership.

Cross Examination: It doesn't matter how many wickets are taken per day, just the final score. The partnership has to start again, and Johnson and Siddle are no guarentee to score again. Any total up to 420 should be gettable on this wicket.

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