2nd Test :: RSA vs AUS at Kingsmead, Durban - 6-10 March - Phil Hughes 115 and 160.

[ElectricEelMan]

Hughes 41* from 42 balls

Has played some glorious shots and looks FAR from one-dimensionsal

 

[TheParraboy]

we are doing it easy

0/64 = 13 overs

hughes 41*

 

[TheParraboy]

oh no danger man kallis is on

 

[TheParraboy]

2 delivers 2 corkers, kallis is here

 

[TheParraboy]

hughes 48 not out, a century coming up for the young maestro

 

[DragonPunk]

Hughes brings up his 50 with a four, good on the young kid.

 

[IanG]

Phil Hughes gets his 50. Well done Hughesy

 

[TheParraboy]

0/89

hughes 56*

 

[aussies1st]

Hughes you ripper lovin this start not so the pitch but while we are batting on it I'll take it.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

And so ends the talk about Hughes one-dimensional batting :lol:

 

[johnkelley]

Where is Emil1989??????????:crazy:

 

[IanG]

Lunch Day 1 Australia 0 for 119 off 28 Overs

 

[El Diablo]

good start by the Blues boys

 

[Tommy Smith]

Is that the 5th toss in a row that Punter has won vs RSA in tests?

Which i think is a huge advantage between two fairly evenly matched teams. I actually thought the main factor in England winning the 05 Ashes was that we won the toss every time from the 2nd test onwards which allowed us to bat first and post big scores.

And now with Australia's powerful batting line-up it looks like theyve finally got that part of their game sorted out over these last few Tests. So to continually chase over 400 makes it very hard for South Africa.

As for Hughes, i reckon he's almost a given for 10'000 Test runs given his age. Similar in that sense to Graeme Smith who started at around age 20/21 and already has some 7000 runs at about 27.

 

[aussies1st]

Seems like it. As they say your luck evens out as during India he couldn't win one and on those tracks you want to bat first but we were stuck bowling first in all the games IIRC.

 

[El Diablo]

will thry give this as runs after the referral :?

 

[DragonPunk]

They gave Hughes the run now his on 83

 

[aussies1st]

They should, if Hughes get out on 99...

 

[El Diablo]

They should, if Hughes get out on 99...

if he gets out for 100 he can now thank the Saffers for referring it

they're not good with Hughes. out twice in the second innings in the 1st test and no referral. not out here in the first innings and they referred it

 

[KHunt]

I wish I had a stream to watch this.