CAPE TOWN : Shane Watson took five wickets in 20 balls to send South
Africa crashing to 96 all out on the second day of the first Test
against Australia at Newlands on Thursday.The Australian
all-rounder enabled his side to take a 188-run first innings lead with a
devastating spell in which he took five wickets for 17 runs.South
Africa struck back, reducing Australia to 13 for three at tea after an
extraordinary session in which 12 wickets fell for 60 runs in 18.1
overs.South Africa were 49 for one at lunch in reply to
Australia's 284 but lost nine wickets for 45 runs in 11.3 overs after
the interval.Australian captain Michael Clarke took his
first innings score to 151 before he was last man out in a frustrating
morning for the South Africans in which Australia reached 284 after
starting the day precariously placed on 214 for eight.Tailender
Peter Siddle made 20 and supported Clarke in a ninth wicket stand of
59, the second best of the innings, as the last two wickets added 70
runs.Watson struck with the second ball after lunch when the
Australians successfully called for a review after umpire Ian Gould
gave Hashim Amla not out after he was struck on the pad. Replays showed
the ball would have hit the top of leg stump.Four balls
later Jacques Kallis was out for nought, again after a review, caught at
second slip when replays showed he had got a faint edge to an attempted
pull which looped off his shoulder to Ricky Ponting.Watson
made another double strike, bowling Graeme Smith for 37 off an inside
edge and trapping Ashwell Prince leg before wicket with a full, straight
ball before AB de Villiers became the third batsman out to a reviewed
decision, lbw to Ryan Harris after being given not by umpire Billy
Doctrove.Mark Boucher was Watson's fifth victim - with
television umpire Billy Bowden again called into action, this time
because the batsman queried Gould's lbw decision.Watson fell
to the third ball of Australia's second innings, leg before to Steyn.
Ironically if he had called for a review he would have survived because
replays showed the ball would have gone over the top of his stumps.
Ponting was leg before to Vernon Philander and Phil Hughes was caught at
third slip off Morkel.Australian batsman Shaun Marsh did
not bat at number three because he was off the field for the whole South
African innings because of a back problem.
