The 'Ponting Age' has truly begun
The headwear gave them away. Ricky Ponting and Phillip Hughes sat together after Australia's win in Durban and the most obvious sign of the generational gap that divides them was the state of their baggy green caps
03/06Result
2nd Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Durban, Mar 6-10 2009
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![Australia]( "Australia")
352 & 331/5d -
![South Africa]( "South Africa")
138 & 370 (132.2 ov)
Player of the Match
03/06Result
2nd Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Durban, Mar 6-10 2009
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![Australia]( "Australia")
352 & 331/5d -
![South Africa]( "South Africa")
138 & 370 (132.2 ov)
Player of the Match
Day 5
Expectation had nothing to do with loss - Smith
The headwear gave them away. Ricky Ponting and Phillip Hughes sat together after Australia's win in Durban and the most obvious sign of the generational gap that divides them was the state of their baggy green caps
Some catchin, lovin, and joggin
Plays of the day for the fifth day of the second Test between South Africa and Australia in Durban
Proud of how we bounced back - Ponting
Ricky Ponting has captained Australia to an Ashes clean sweep and two World Cup triumphs but never has he been prouder of his players than after they wrapped up their series victory in South Africa
Day 4
Australia stay No. 1 after series win
An emphatic series win in South Africa will imbue Australia with confidence that, after a harrowing six-month search, they have uncovered a crop of cricketers capable of competing with the world's best
South Africa's task goes from impossible to improbable
The South African batsmen finally provided weary supporters with cause to cheer, but the likelihood of a world-record run-chase on a fifth day Kingsmead pitch remains slight
Amla confident of SA playing out final day
South Africa have good memories of a Jacques batting throughout the final day of a Test to salvage a draw against Australia. Three years ago in Perth it was Jacques Rudolph, in Kingsmead this time, they are up against Jacques Kallis
Australia miss full-time spinner
The lack of a full-time slow bowler to tie down an end for long chunks of the day while also probing for wickets could prove detrimental to an Australian attack full of young and heavily burdened bodies
A Sparrow, a sequel, and an A-grade AB
Plays of the day for the fourth day of the second Test between Australia and South Africa
Day 3
Hughes and Ponting punish South Africa
Phillip Hughes has positioned Australia for victory and himself for celebrity. Just 11 days removed from posting a fourth-ball duck in his maiden Test innings, Hughes broke George Headley's 79-year-old record to become the youngest batsman in history to s
South Africa face uphill battle
The situation is not pretty for South Africa. There are two days to play, they have a 506-run deficit, their captain Graeme Smith won't come out at the top of the innings as he nurses a fractured hand and rain is unlikely to save them
Australia have their 'Phil', and how
Don Bradman on Friday. George Headley on Sunday. It's a shame Test matches don't span three innings per team or Phillip Hughes could have tried to knock off Garfield Sobers on Tuesday
Asad twitches, Hughes sways
Brydon Coverdale presents the plays of the day from day three in Durban
Day 2
Johnson leaves South Africa bloodied and broken
Mitchell Johnson produced the most intimidating performance of his international career to drive South Africa towards the brink of oblivion
Australia look to avoid a Melbourne
If Johannesburg began as the mirror image of Perth until a changed ending, the second Test in Durban is starting to resemble the corresponding match in Melbourne
Injured Smith unlikely for third Test
South Africa's captain Graeme Smith will almost certainly miss thethird Test in Cape Town after suffering a fracture to his right handduring South Africa's first innings at Kingsmead
Slow death, and the mamba strikes
Brydon Coverdale presents the plays of the day from day two in Durban
Pace is back
Dale Steyn is the world's No. 1-ranked fast man and Mitchell Johnson is second on the list and on day two in Durban they showed that a fast-bowling community screaming out for new stars is in good hands
Day 1
Hughes carves his name in Australia's history
When Phillip Hughes went into triple-figures with a pair of consecutive sixes he became Australia's most youthful Test centurion in 43 years
Flat South Africa slow off the blocks
In the first two sessions of the opening day the South Africans' minds were elsewhere when they should have been focused on making a bold statement to give their series a much-needed boost
Hot shots and Hot Spot
Brydon Coverdale presents the plays of the day from day one in Durban
Others
Hughes and Katich give Australia a solid platform
Hundreds from Phillip Hughes and Simon Katich helped Australia to 303 for 4 on the opening day of the second Test in Durban
The dead rubber that transformed a team
A dead rubber it may have been, but the victory in Sydney provided Australia's rookies with invaluable self-affirmation of their abilities at international level
South Africa v Australia, 2nd Test, Durban
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South Africa aim to emulate fightback
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