Thread for Craziest Series of the YEAR (AUS VS SA) (2)

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Discuss here about SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, 2012/13
THE CRAZIEST SERIES OF THE YEAR
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FIXTURES

DATE	TIME	FORMAT	MATCH	VENUE
Friday 02-Nov-12 to Sunday 04-Nov-12	10:30 local 23:30 GMT (Prev. Day) 05:00 IST	3- Day Warm-Up Match	Australia A vs South Aficans	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Match Result	Australia A Won The Toss & Chose To Bat Australia A 480/7d and 13/1d; South Africans 277/6d Match drawn
DATE	TIME	FORMAT	MATCH	VENUE
Friday 09-Nov-12 to Tuesday 13-Nov-12	10:00 local 00:00 GMT 05:30 IST	1st Test	Australia vs South Africa	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Match Result	South Africa Won The Toss & Chose To Bat South Africa 450 and 166/5; Australia 565/5d Match drawn
DATE	TIME	FORMAT	MATCH	VENUE
Thursday 22-Nov-12 to Monday 26-Nov-12	10:30 local 00:00 GMT 05:30 IST	2nd Test	Australia vs South Africa	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Match Result	Australia Won The Toss & Chose To Bat Australia 550 and 267/8d; South Africa 388 and 248/8 Match drawn
DATE	TIME	FORMAT	MATCH	VENUE
Friday 30-Nov-12 to Monday 03-Dec-12	10:30 local 02:30 GMT 08:00 IST	3rd Test	Australia vs South Africa	Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth
Match Result	South Africa Won The Toss & Chose To Bat South Africa 225 and 569; Australia 163 and 322 South Africa won by 309 runs

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SQUADS
AUSTRALIA SQUAD

Australia A Squad	Australia Test Squad (1st Test)	Australia Test Squad (2nd Test)	Australia Test Squad (3rd Test)
Phillip Hughes Rob Quiney Liam Davis Alex Doolan Andrew McDonald (Capt) Tim Paine (WK) Steven Smith Moises Henriques Glenn Maxwell John Hastings Nathan Coulter-Nile	David Warner Ed Cowan Shane Watson Ricky Ponting Michael Clarke (Capt) Michael Hussey Matthew Wade (WK) Peter Siddle James Pattinson Ben Hilfenhaus Mitchell Starc Nathan Lyon Rob Quiney	David Warner Ed Cowan Shane Watson Ricky Ponting Michael Clarke (Capt) Michael Hussey Matthew Wade (WK) Peter Siddle James Pattinson Ben Hilfenhaus Mitchell Starc Nathan Lyon Rob Quiney	David Warner Ed Cowan Shane Watson Ricky Ponting Michael Clarke (Capt) Michael Hussey Matthew Wade (WK) Peter Siddle Mitchell Johnson Ben Hilfenhaus Mitchell Starc Nathan Lyon Josh Hazelwood John Hastings

SOUTH AFRICA SQUAD

South Africa Test Squad

Graeme Smith (Capt) Hashim Amla AB de Villiers (WK) Dean Elgar Faf du Plessis Imran Tahir Jacques Kallis Rory Kleinveldt Morne Morkel Alviro Petersen Robbie Peterson Vernon Philander Jacques Rudolph Dale Steyn Thami Tsolekile (WK) Ryan Mclaren

Withdrawn Players

1.JP Duminy (due to Heel Injury)

STATS OF ALL AUSTRALIA VS SOUTH AFRICA SERIES
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South Africa 225 & 569
Australia 163 & 200/7 (62.1 ov)
Australia require another 432 runs with 3 wickets remaining
Day 4 - Session 2

WADE OUT FOR 10 TO PETERSON

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Prateek: "The last person to shake hands with Dravid was VVS, and he retired soon after. The last person to shake hands with Ricky was Kallis. Do you smell something?"

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Michael Hussey Has completed his 6000 test runs before getting out on 26 in 2nd innings.

Graeme Smith now has 145 Test Catches to his name, His Catch per inn ratio of 0.721 is 2nd best among current cricketers who has not retired with Jayawardene having the best ratio of 0.777.

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South Africa 225 & 569
Australia 163 & 204/8 (66.5 ov)
Australia require another 428 runs with 2 wickets remaining
Day 4 - Session 3

Johnson out for 3 to philander

Australia staring at a humiliating defeat

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Australia's biggest defeat in terms of runs - it's 675 runs against England in 1928! but their second-biggest defeat is in danger of being overtaken - 408 against West Indies in 1980.

Current Australia trail by 428 :shock:

[Nick]

[Rishabh]

[quote="Throw Me Out"]Australia's biggest defeat in terms of runs - it's 675 runs against England in 1928! but their second-biggest defeat is in danger of being overtaken - 408 against West Indies in 1980.

Current Australia trail by 428 :shock: [/quote}

Records are meant to be broken.

[Raminder]

Oz has been Steyned, Philandered, Morkelled, Petersonified,Amla'd, Devilliered, Duplessified, Kallised by a chieftain named Smith.

- Jim Maxwell

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South Africa 225 & 569
Australia 163 & 310/9 (80.5 ov)
Australia require another 322 runs with 1 wicket remaining

STARC 60*

LYON 27*

[Rishabh]

Mitchell Starc - 60 :mother:

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Starc's 50 off 32 is the 2nd fastest by an Australian, beating Bruce Yardly, 14th Fastest Overall.

Starc on 68*

Can he reach three figure score??

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Pat Cummins tweets: " Halfway, C'mon boys! #315togo"

RIP AUSTRALIAN CRICKET

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South Africa 225 & 569
Australia 163 & 322/10 (82.5 ov)
South Africa won by 309 runs

SOUTH AFRICA WINS THE SERIES 1-0

THEIR 2ND TEST SERIES WIN ON AUSTRALIAN SOIL OVERALL.

THEIR 2ND TEST SERIES WIN ON AUSTRALIAN SOIL IN 4 YRS.

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THIS IS AUSTRALIA'S 3RD TEST SERIES LOSS IN AUSTRALIA IN LAST 4 YEARS.

SOUTH AFRICA BECOMES THE 2ND TEAM TO WIN TEST SERIES IN AUSTRALIA BACK TO BACK IN LAST 30 YRS AFTER WEST INDIES.



SOUTH AFRICA JOINS THE ELITE OF WEST INDIES AND ENGLAND WHO HAVE BEATEN AUSTRALIA IN TEST SERIES IN AUSTRALIA IN BACK TO BACK TOURS.

[Mad max]

MICHAEL CLARKE IS STILL CRYING


Hard to believe that Punter has retired so early

[Nick]

I wil keep on laughng atleast for 2 hrz whn Msd retirz

[Deep Dey]

MICHAEL CLARKE IS STILL CRYING


Hard to believe that Punter has retired so early

warner is laughing

drop warner please

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Ponting with his wife Rianna, elder daughetr emmy and youngest daughter matisse after match ended

[Raminder]

Deep update Rankings thread

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Player of the match HM Amla (South Africa)
Player of the series MJ Clarke (Australia)

Next Series between Australia and South Africa to take place in 2014 in South Africa.
It will be a 4 match test series, dont know about Odis and T20I.

[Deep Dey]

he margin of victory in Perth - 309 runs - is eighth in the list of most comprehensive wins for South Africa, and most comprehensive defeats for Australia (in terms of runs). It's the second-largest margin of victory for South Africa against Australia, after their 323-run win in Port Elizabeth in 1970.

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The 309-run margin was also the second most comprehensive defeat of Ricky Ponting's Test career (in terms of runs), next only to the 320-run loss to India in 2008. Of the 31 Test defeats in his career, four were by an innings and only three by a margin of more than 200 runs.

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South Africa have become the first team to win successive Test series in Australia since West Indies won there in 1988-89 and then again in 1992-93. In 40 series that Australia have played at home since the 1988-89 series against West Indies (excluding one-off Tests), they've won 31, drawn four, and lost five - twice each to West Indies and South Africa, and once to England in 2010-11.

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Not only did Ponting finish with one of the worst defeats of his career, his last series was also a personal low: he scored 32 runs at 6.40; the only series in which he had a poorer average was in India in 2001, when he scored 17 in five innings.

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Australia's second innings was redeemed only by a spirited half-century from Mitchell Starc, their No. 10 batsman. His unbeaten 68 is the seventh-highest score by an Australian No.10 batsman, and the best since Geoff Lawson's 74 at Lord's in 1989. It's the highest by a No.10 batsman at the WACA. Starc's 68 not out is also the highest by any No.10 batsman against Australia.

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Starc is only the 14th Australian player to score at least a half-century and take eight or more wickets in a Test. The two previous such instances were by Mitchell Johnson.

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Dale Steyn's match haul of 7 for 112 means he has taken 57 wickets in 11 Tests against Australia, his biggest haul against any team. Overall, he has 299 wickets in 60 Tests, and is in line to become the third-fastest to 300 Test wickets (in terms of Tests played).

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Robin Peterson's match haul of 6 for 171 is only the ninth instance of a spinner taking six or more wickets in a Perth Test.

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_______ Sachin was the best I played against: Ricky Ponting _______

Cricketing great Ricky Ponting, who retired from all forms of the game after playing his last Test match at Perth against South Africa, on Monday, said India's Sachin Tendulkar is the best player he has played against.

On being asked about the most supreme batsmen of his era, Ponting said: "I feel Sachin was the best player I played against and that's coming from more of a captain's point of view as well, knowing he had so much success against us in our conditions and their conditions."

Ponting hung his boots after playing 168 Test matches, scoring 13,378 runs at an average of 51.85 with a highest of 257. He also scored 41 centuries and 62 half-centuries. In one-day internationals (ODI), the former Australia skipper played 375 matches scoring 13,704 runs, including 30 centuries with a highest score of 164.

Commenting further about other great batsmen he played against, as reported by a cricket website, he said: "I probably lost more sleep on the eve of games against (Brian) Lara because I knew he could single-handedly win games.

The way I judge players has always been on their ability to win games by themselves. Lara could certainly do that and he did it probably more than what Sachin's done for India.

"You've got to put (Jacques) Kallis in that bracket as well. You put his wickets on top of what he's done with the bat. He came out the other day to bat and I looked at the board and he was averaging 57 in Test cricket.

That's remarkable considering the amount he's had to bowl and all that sort of stuff. I've been pretty blessed to play in the era with so many great batsmen, and if my name gets mentioned among them, then that's great."

Ponting said former pacers Curtly Ambrose of the West Indies and Pakistani Wasim Akram and India spinner Harbhajan Singh were the best bowlers he faced in his career.

"I think Curtly Ambrose and Wasim Akram were probably the two outstanding quicks that I faced, and for different reasons. Ambrose for his ability to just make you feel like you couldn't score off him for long periods of time, never felt like he was going to bowl you a bad ball.

Akram for the exact opposite, you could get a few runs off him, but you just knew there was an unplayable ball around the corner, be it with an old ball or with a new ball.

"Harbhajan's probably the other one who caused me as much grief as anything. He got me out a lot of times and caused me a lot of grief. Those guys through their careers can all put their hand up and say they had my measure,"

Harbhajan, who dismissed the Tasmanian 10 times, including three ducks in Tests, more than any bowler Ponting's confronted.

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South Africa's 1-0 series win has helped them retain the top position in the ICC Test ratings. They have 123 points, while Australia have slipped to 114. Even if England win both the remaining Tests in India, they'll have 119. Here are the stats highlights from South Africa's resounding win.

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So South Africa will end the Year 2012 as No.1 Test Team

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