Australia v South Africa | 1st Test - Day 4 | Perth | 20/12/08

[saffer]

Personally I'm not expecting a win. Mentally to score 200 runs more on a fifth day wicket to win a match against australia is not going to be likely. If S.A can get close I'll feel pretty good about the situation and I'm sure they'll have a lot more confidence going into the rest of the series. However if these two can put together another 50 runs without losing a wicket I'l start to believe.

 

[saffer]

I believe this match is in the hands of De Villiers and Kallis. If they get out early tomorrow, Australia will romp to a victory. If they play sensibly and remain not out till lunch, South Africa will easily get through. This partnership is incredibly crucial, because unless the South African lower-order dramatically fires, I cannot see them winning this match if this partnership is broken

It'll be asking a lot of dumminy and boucher if these two fail to go on and get a big score. Boucher you can almost bank on in that type of situation though and dumminy is an excellent bastman ...beyodn those two you're asking a lot for the S.a tail to score more than 50 combined...although morkel CAN bat and harris can stick around.