http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Michael-Paul-Vaughan-c76145 mighty impressed with the Proteas’ performance - Cricket News Update
Former England captain, Michael Vaughan, believes that the Proteas’ performance during the first Test at the Oval was the best he had seen in recent memories. South Africa defeated England by a massive inning and 12 runs and went one up in the three-Test
series.
For Vaughan, who led his side to their first Ashes victory in 16 years against a superb Australian side in 2005, said that watching the South African batters was a surreal experience and termed their performance better than the then-world number-one Australians
during the Ashes seven years ago.
"It's the best performance I've seen by an away team in a long time," Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live. "http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 didn't play that well in 2005."
The visitors completely dominated the proceedings from the second day onwards and never allowed the home side to make a comeback at any stage of the match.
After wrapping up seven English wickets within 35 over on Day-2, the touring batsmen went on to make the host bowlers toil hard for more than 13 hours before they declared at a world record 637 for 2 on day 4.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692 also came to the party with his first century (182*) on English soil since 1998.
All three of them were involved in record partnerships, first a 259-run stand between Smith and Amla and then a world-record unbeaten stand of 377 between Amla and Kallis.
"Second, third, fourth day, it's the worst performance by an http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 team at home I've seen in many years. You have to give South Africa credit," added Vaughan.
"When they went out to bat on that second day it started to swing a bit but Smith and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501.”
With the Proteas’ top-order in supreme touch, English bowlers still have to face a mighty-talented http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jacques-Rudolph-c1619, both of whom have yet to bat in the series.
South Africa has never lost a Test when their skipper scores a century "When http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 go on to win series,” the 37-year-old admitted.
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