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this. I really think this match was something else. You couldn't have scripted a contest to pan out this way, but then we had this. The only thing you could predict is that whoever won the toss would bat first. So much happened in each day of the match and a result always seemed certain, it seemed like there was always going to be a winner of this match (I believe that draws are results), but when the odds became stacked too high against South Africa, they pulled something entirely out of left field because they decided that not losing was more important than winning and so this giant stone wall went up and it broke the backs of the Australians. Run fests aren't test cricket. This is test cricket and it is beautiful.
But it does say plenty about the great job Clarke has done since taking over from Ponting.
