Best performances - Batsmen
MJ Clarke
151(176) 22x4 - 0x6
Control %79%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 39 runs
- 5x4 - 0x6
HM Amla
112(134) 21x4 - 0x6
Control %84%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 58 runs
- 11x4 - 0x6
09/11Result
1st Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Cape Town, Nov 9-11 2011
-
![Australia]( "Australia")
284 & 47 -
![South Africa]( "South Africa")
96 & 236/2 (50.2 ov)
Player of the Match
09/11Result
1st Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Cape Town, Nov 9-11 2011
-
![Australia]( "Australia")
284 & 47 -
![South Africa]( "South Africa")
96 & 236/2 (50.2 ov)
Player of the Match
Best performances - Bowlers
VD Philander
- O7
- M3
- R15
- W5
- Eco2.14
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
SR Watson
- O5
- M2
- R17
- W5
- Eco3.40
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Partnerships
- AUS - 1st
- SA - 1st
- AUS - 2nd
- SA - 2nd
Australia - 1st - Innings
South Africa - 1st - Innings
Australia - 2nd - Innings
South Africa - 2nd - Innings
Australia tour of South Africa 2011-12 News
Like an unloved pancake in a hippopotamus-rolling competition
Your questions answered
An apology to Faf
When Faf du Plessis was selected not everyone was convinced. Three innings into his Test career and those concerns appear very misplaced.
Clarke's captaincy forged in South Africa
Michael Clarke believes the difficulties of last year's South Africa tour, and the trip to Sri Lanka that preceded it, were the making of his captaincy
Test Championship postponement a 'shame' - Greg Chappell
Greg Chappell has called for the swiftest possible introduction of a Test Championship to aid the health of the game's longest form
'189 more of those, Huss, 188 more of those'
In the Sydney Morning Herald , Greg Baum recounts Australia's dramatic chase at the Wanderers.
