South Africa vs Australia second Test Day 2 details: Career highs for AB de Villiers, JP Duminy.port ELIZABETH (South Africa): Fast bowler Morne Morkel demonstrated the impetus for a sizeable South African lead as the home side went to tea on 58 for two, 235 runs in front of Australia on the third day of the second Test here on Saturday.morkel's red hot playing helped limit Australia to 246 in their first innings and Hashim Amla (24) and Faf du Plessis (one) will continue in the night session with the hosts looking further bolstering amplify their good fortune.
They lost openers Graeme Smith (14) and Dean Elgar (16) in their second innings, the previous bowled off within edge by Mitchell Johnson and the recent got by wicket-manager Brad Haddin to give Peter Siddle his first wicket of the match.morkel (three for 63) was the pick of the South African bowlers as he played two fearsome spells that had the Australians jumping around the crease.the travelers continued on 112 for four and Morkel threatened nightwatchman Nathan Lyon (15) via arriving some sickening figure blows.david Warner chose scoring might be simpler at the flip side and he pursued a wide Vernon Philander conveyance, edging the ball to Smith from the get go slip with his score on 70.
Lyon's stomach for the battle against Morkel had gone and the South African got his man when the batsman stepped back as he endeavored to leave a climbing conveyance and wound up playing the ball on to his stumps.dale Steyn uprooted Haddin (nine) with a brilliant off-cutter that nipped go into the batsman and discovered the door between bat and cushion to crush into center stump.there will have been some fulfillment for the South Africans late in the session when a Morkel conveyance collided with cap of Johnson, who had put Ryan Mclaren out of this Test with a comparably sickening blow in the Centurion Test.johnson (27) looked unsettled and was played by low maintenance off-spinner J.p. Duminy in a matter of seconds a short time later.
Steve Smith (49) was questionably given out gotten behind by A.b. de Villiers off Morkel when South Africa inspected a not out choice and there was little proof to propose the batsman had hit the ball.australia ended up in new domain in an overwhelming southern half of the globe summer, throughout which they have won six progressive Tests, all by wide margins.south Africa, however, looked more like the group that has surged to the highest point of the global Test rankings as they caught up a robust first innings with forceful bowling to put Australia under weight.
The tall Morne Morkel was especially threatening, peppering the batsmen with various short conveyances as he took three wickets for 63 runs. Vernon Philander asserted three for 68.south Africa were on top from the fifth over of the day when Philander had top-scorer David Warner got at slip for 70. Nightwatchman Nathan Lyon, in the wake of remaining up to a guard blast from Morkel, hacked a ball from the tall quick bowler into his stumps in the following over.steve Smith and Brad Haddin both survived risks as they included 40 for the seventh wicket before Haddin was played by Dale Steyn.
Mitchell Johnson hit a snappy 27 preceding he was amazed in the before lunch by off-spinner JP Duminy. In the past over Johnson had been struck a substantial pass up a bouncer from Morkel.smith made 49 preceding he was given out gotten behind off a weak edge from Morkel after a survey by South Africa.australia struck once again at the begin of South Africa's second innings by rejecting both opening batsmen cheaply.captain Graeme Smith fizzled for the fourth progressive innings when he was rocked the bowling alley off an inside edge for 14 by Johnson - the eighth time he has been out to the left-arm quick bowler in Tests.
The opening association of 20 with Dean Elgar was the most elevated by either side in seven innings of an arrangement which offers two in number quick rocking the bowling alley attacks.elgar was gotten behind off Peter Siddle for 16.amla, who endured a disjoined left ring finger in dropping a challenging chance from Haddin at chasm off Philander, hit the ball with radiant timing as he made his first Test half-century in eight innings off 53 balls. He and Faf du Plessis steadied the innings with a third wicket stand of 70.ab de Villiers helped Amla include 55 for the fourth wicket. By the nearby Amla had confronted 126 balls and hit 12 fours.
