2nd ODI: Australia v South Africa

WACA !  starts in 3 hours !

Folks , have a look at a Pace battery (both XIs) in Perth !  8)

Australia won the toss, chose to bat and in a serious hole at 109/5 (30.3 ov).

Update: Australia will do well to even bat out their full allotment of 50 overs as they have capitulated to 147/9. Morkel has ripped them apart, taking 5/21 from 8 overs.

Australia bowled out for 154 from 41.4 overs. Mitchell Marsh got in a few blows at the end but finally succumbed for 67.

I think MJ will be licking is lips seeing how Morne Morkel went about his business on this deck, it is going to be an interesting chase, hope Amla score some decent runs.

Out come Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock to chase 155.

And here's Mitchell Johnson with two regular slips and a fly slip

0.3  Johnson to de Kock, FOUR, overpitched on off, and de Kock extends his arms to drive it nicely in the big gap at extra cover
 

replays show a fly was bothering de Kock, and had settled close to his left eye   :

as he lined up to play that cut

Flied Out ?  :-\

6.5
Johnson to Amla, OUT, they have the big one, Amla arched back and tried to upper cut this


bouncer over the cordon, only managed an edge through to the keeper  :-[

8.6  Coulter-Nile to Rossouw, FOUR, four more, Rossouw pushes softly again as another one leaves

8.5  Coulter-Nile to Rossouw, FOUR, overpitched on the pad and Rossouw has clipped that

8.4  Coulter-Nile to Rossouw, FOUR,

157 - 7 after 27 . 4 overs

    South Africa won by 3 wickets (with 134 balls remaining)