The Aussie Phil Hughes became the youngest player in history to score a century in each innings of a Test as Australia cruised by South Africa. That's pretty remarkable. Here's the report.
The 20-year-old Hughes followed up his first innings 115 with an unbeaten 136 to break West Indian George Headley's record set against England in 1930 and move Australia to 3 for 292 at stumps, an overall lead of 506.
Hughes could scarcely have been more impressive in besting Headley's mark by almost six months, striking 13 boundaries and two sixes in a virtually chanceless innings.
In a day of milestones for Australia, Ricky Ponting earlier surpassed his predecessor Steve Waugh as the fourth-highest Test run-scorer of all-time behind Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Allan Border.
If this form stays good, the reconstruction of the Australian Test side seems to be going at a good pace. It kind of did better than Rachel Hunter's advice about shampoo: it did happen over night.
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[...] The story behind this series has been the injuries that has made the Australian comeback possible, though not in ways that they anticipated. Brett Lee and Stuart Clark, both fearsome bowlers, were out of the running for this series. But their replacements have been more than competent, punishing the SA team. It is embarrassing how deep the Australian talent pool is, and how ashamed the Australian Cricket Board should be to have thrown away the last series by keeping non-performers like Hayden around, when they could have had Hughes. [...]
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