Australia vs South Africa 2nd test 2008: Perth victory is inspiring Melbourne

South Africa secured a stunning victory in Perth test against the top-ranked Australia. By jumping up 414 runs South Africa awarded the first victory. May be it is the first time that SAF got test wins against Australia. The host is trying to find out their faults and the guest is thinking to take the control of the series victory. 

Reported ICC-cricket

“We put our peg in the ground at Perth and we have made them respect us a huge amount as we do respect them. But from a psychological aspect we know we have got a lot more petrol in our tank. It took something special to win the Test match and I expect much the same again with a pretty even contest.” 

South African captain Graeme Smith who secured a century in the second innings, 48 in the first innings is optimistic for success in the Melbourne test. He and his teammate has proved that game is always uncertain and nothing impossible to overcome. 

Australia Team for Tewnty20 match at Melbourne (1Feb 2008)

Australia will play a Twenty 20 cricket match before the CB Series against India at Melbourne cricket ground on 1 February 2008. There is no doubt that Australia is no. 1 cricket team in the World but they were defeated in every time to India within the two times facing before. Australia is at the no 1 position in both ODI and Test cricket by ICC ranking, which they have been kept for long time. After Twenty 20 World Cup, Australia went to Indian tour then they played 7-matches ODI series and won by 4-2 difference but that time they were defeated by India a Twenty 20 match. Recently, Australia and India have played 4-matches Test series of BV Trophy, where Australia has won by 2-1 defeating India.

Again both the team will face together in a Twenty 20 match at Melbourne before the triangular CB Series. Australia has many great cricketers as like Ricky Ponting, Andrew Symonds, Brad Hog, Mike Hussy, Stuart Clark those who can change the mode of a mach in any moment. Recently, Adam Gilchrist, a great cricketer of Australia, has announced to take retirement from both ODI and Test cricket after the coming CB Series. The upcoming Twenty 20 match will be enormous rivalry because both teams have finished a rivalry test series. Most of the young cricketers will play the Twenty 20 match to Indian side and in Australian side, it is expected that they will do the same.

However, the match will be held at 2.00 pm in Indian local time and the match will be shown on Star Cricket TV channel live.