Michael Clarke still hopeful of winning against South Africa – Cricket News Update
Australia’s Test and One Day International (ODI) skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757.
After taking a first innings lead of 188 runs over the hosts, Australia were bowled out for 47 runs in their second innings. Only two players http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nathan-Michael-Lyon-c78822 managed to reach double figures and the team was all out after taking an overall lead
of 235 runs.
South Africa ended day two of the match with 81 runs on the board and just one wicket down. The team now needs only 155 runs for victory, but will have to work extremely hard in order to score runs on a lively pitch.
Clarke was pretty much confident that his bowlers can guide the side to victory on the third day, as the wicket was offering pace and bounce to the pacers.
The 30-year-old would have been a little disappointed, as he could have ended day two on a high. However, star batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HM-Amla-c1557 was dropped off the last delivery in the day, which might turn out to be a costly miss at the end of the day.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942.
However, one of the safest fielders in modern day cricket failed to hold onto the ball and dropped a sitter. The ball went straight into his hands at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597 height and just popped out.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 will need to take all their chances to win the match, as they do not have a big total to defend from now onwards.
The pitch in Cape Town has been playing a lot of tricks and the batsmen have struggled throughout the first couple of days.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 proved that nothing was impossible if the batsmen applied themselves in the middle. The stylish right-handed batsman scored a spectacular century in the first innings of the match and might end up winning the player-of-the-match award.
Apart from the Aussie skipper, no other batsman has yet been able to reach a half-century.
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