Graeme Smith and fellow opener, AB De Villiers have made a 50 run partnership in only the first 14 overs of the test match with each of them on 23.
The bowlers, Shoaib Akhtar and Umar Gul on the other hand are getting a bit of a hammering. They have to break this partnership soon or it might get a *little* out of control.
De Villiers was on fire until he got dismissed for 31 (51), he cracked two consecutive boundaries at the long off boundary and he was looking like going for a third but luckily for Pakistan, Gul bowled a bouncer which made De Villiers attack at the short ball, he went on his back foot and smashed it hard and long on the legside but it wasn't going high enough for a fielder to not catch it, so it just went blazingly fast towards Razzaq at deep square leg and did the odd fumble but managed to catch in the end. Star all-rounder, Jacques Kallis is now at the crease, Kallis averages a very nice 55.78 in tests and has a high score of 189*, so he is very dangerous and Pakistan must restrict him of runs if they want an easy win.
After facing 82 balls, South African skipper, Graeme Smith has reached his half century with 5 fours and 3 sixes. This partnership is starting to look a bit dangerous but the match is still even.
Smith has slowed down a little bit after getting his 50 but Kallis has definitely sped up with several boundaries, South Africa are in a good position here and if they use this chance correctly they could make a large score that Pakistan can't really captialise on and then South Africa can grind them into the dirt but this is still every early in the match and nothing is decided just yet.
What do you think of Kallis, smooth, powerful batting? Kaneria has just dismissed him LBW for 25 after he played possibly his worst shot ever, the ball was incredibly slow and did not spin at all and Kallis just tried to flick it for a single, the ball then bounced and hit him right in front and there was no hesistation from the umpire, he just put up the *finger* straight away.
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