second day, lunch report

This was a cracking session of cricket.

But a bit weird.

Australia lose 4 wickets, and completely smash South Africa whilst doing so.

Weird.

Clarke and Lee started like speed freaks.

40 runs in 25 minutes.

And South Africa lost the plot a little.

They were getting wickets, but Smith was moving the field around like a mad man, they were bowling too many four balls, and they gave up trying to get Clarke.

Luckily for them they got Lee & Johnson together.

Unluckily for them Hauritz & Siddle both stuck around long enough to give Clarke just a whiff of a hundred.

Eventually they were both snuffed out, and Clarke was left short.

By this time Australia had made 4/114 in a session.

And 396 in the first innings at Melbourne is always pretty damn good.

The wicket is still moving around a tad, and you feel you should be able to chip away and get wickets, and if you are lucky or a bowler gets on song there could be a huge collapse.

Steyn was the pick of the bowlers, he looked like getting a wicket at any stage, the others were a bit more benign.

Clarke was smoking today, he had talked to Warney and read my blog as was fired up.

Straight away he looked a different man, and this was probably his most grown up innings ever.

Siddle & Lee both looked solid, and hit some great shots.

Johnson was bowled after Steyn bowled a ball so shithouse, Harmison would have been embarrassed.

Hauritz was given out from a low slips catch that was definitely caught, but unusually the third umpire gave it out.

Weird.

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