Tuesday, December 30, 2008

South Africa Create History in Test Cricket

In the world Cricket from some years Australia had Dominance in the two format of Cricket by name Test match and One Day International and India emerge as Champion its recently added new form that is T20 .In the One day International Cricket it had dominance by West Indies in the 1975 until 1983 when India beat West Indies in the third prudential world Cup of Cricket then Teams keep on performing one two series but there was not consistent performance and no team get the tag of Champion then 1996 onwards Australia was ahead from all the countries and won lot of series they played whether home country or played as touring country until 2007 they were Champion without any controversy and no team was near them, Second format of Cricket that is Test and treated by playing countries and Players the real cricket where players skill, team members patience, mind game and physical strength plays vital role to win the test match and in this format of Test Cricket also Australia was not in the reach of other team, the countries who are playing Cricket and permanent members of ICC are
Australia
India
South Africa
Sri Lanka
England
Pakistan
West Indies
New Zealand
Bangladesh
and no team had potential to challenge Australia until 2007 in Test Cricket ,but the year 2007-08 series India gave Challenge, India won one test in Australia but lost series to 2-1 but throughout series they gave Australia a fight in four Test Match series, and gave sign in the Test Match arena which was going to take place in the very near future, then Australia tour India 2008-09 for a Four Test match series and India defeat Australia 2-0 with this jump to second place in the world cricket test ranking for Australia it’s the beginning of sliding backward but still they were number one team.
After completing India Tour they have to face South Africa in there home country, defeat from India in Test Match series Australian Cricket team was hoping to heal the wound with victory over South Africa as they had very good record in there home soil not defeated after the year 1992-93 series from West Indies which is long period spread over more then 16 years.
First Test was played in WACA, Perth on 17 to 21 December,2008,Australia won the toss and opted to bat first and made 375/10 in there first innings and South Africa made 281/10 and Australia made 319/10 in there second innings and South Africa had to made 414 in the fourth innings which was impossible in the fourth innings as per Test Match History ,but in the mind of South African Captain have stored something else and become part of one of the major performer while scoring 108 and AB de Villiers was other who scored 106 not out also declared man of the match and South Africa won the match by Six wickets.
Second Test Match played between Australia and South Africa in MCG from 26th to 30th December,2008,Australia second time won the toss, again select option to bat first made 394/10 in there first innings and in there first innings South Africa made 459/10 ,Australia made 247/10 in there second innings and South Africa had to make 183 in there second innings and they made this score with the lose of one wicket Dale Steyn declared man of the match and not only won test match defeating Australia by nine wickets but also ahead in the three test match series 2-0,it mean despite one match left to play in the series , it’s result wont effect the series result and South Africa wont lose the series and become the not only first country to defeat Australia in there home country after 1992-93 which won by West Indies but also first time won series in Australia,If South Africa defeat Australia in third test also which is schedule to play between both countries on 3rd Of January next year in Sydney then it will be whitewash by any team in there home country after Pakistan did in series 1982-83 when they defeat Australia 3-0,and it will take South Africa top in the Test match ranking. Australia which was treated team in both form of Cricket that is Test Match and One day International invincible, now no more the team which can't be defeated by other Team .

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