Highlights from day two of the third and final Test between Australia and South Africa at the WACA Ground.
Nathan Lyon takes an incredible catch to dismiss Graeme Smith for 84. Source: Getty Images
Hashim Amla will resume on 99 on day three after an incredible innings that put South Africa in the box seat in the third and deciding Test. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: PerthNow
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AMLA STRANDED ON 99 AT STUMPS
A day that started so promisingly for Australia has ended with the match almost certainly out of the home side's reach.
After bowling Australia out for 163, South Africa reached 2-229 at stumps on day two of the third Test to take a monumental 291-run lead with three days still left in the game.
But the close of play came too soon for Hashim Amla, who ended the day stranded on 99 off 84 balls after earlier combining for a devastating 178-run partnership with Graeme Smith (84).
The pair scored at better than a run a ball for most of the afternoon, putting the game right back in their favour after they were bowled out for 225 yesterday.
The only highlights for the Aussies were the two catches to get rid of Alviro Petersen and Smith.
Petersen was a victim of a piece of brilliant caught-and-bowled work by Mitchell Johnson, who latched onto a ballooned ball high off the bat, taking the catch just centimetres off the ground.
Nathan Lyon's catch to dismiss Smith was even better, with the Aussie spinner running 20 metres and diving at full stretch to drag the ball in after Smith hooked Mitchell Starc hard and low towards the square leg boundary.
8.35pm AEDT - SA 2-210
WICKET!
OH WHAT A CATCH!!!
That's arguably the best catch I've ever seen as Nathan Lyon sprints 20 metres before diving horizontally at full stretch and plucking it just above the ground.
Right up there with Glenn McGrath's diving catch some year ago, that one, which came after Mitchell Starc gave Graeme Smith a short one that the SA captain hooked low in Lyon's direction.
WATCH LYON'S INCREDIBLE CATCH HERE.
Team-lifting stuff from the Aussie spinner just as we thought we wouldn't see another wicket today.
Smith departs for 84, while Hashim Amla remains out there on 96.
Nathan Lyon takes an incredible catch to dismiss Graeme Smith for 84. Source: Getty Images
And a few thoughts from one of our readers, Paul Venn: Just watching cricket and can't get thoughts out of my head we are seeing the real difference between SA and Aus and the attendant Rankings. Their capacity to fire us out after poor day 1 batting outstanding and our bowling response now in their second innings unbelievable, so so poor.
8.30pm AEDT - SA 1-200
There's the 200 up for the Proteas, at the ridiculous run rate of 6.4 an over.
Nathan Lyon thought he'd finally broken through on his first ball of that over when Hashim Amla smashed a high one down the ground, but it landed just clear of two fieldsmen and, to rub it in, the ball rolled over the rope for FOUR.
Amla helps himself to another FOUR a few balls later. Won't be long before we've got twin centuries here.
8.18pm AEDT - SA 1-183
Honestly, it's as if the Aussie bowlers have no plan as to how they're going to get this pair out.
Mitchell Johnson throws in an occasional short one from over the wicket to Smith, but genuine wicket-taking deliveries are scarce.
Nathan Lyon is churning through his overs like he's being paid per ball. The pace of play is clearly just as the South Africans like it.
8.05pm AEDT - SA 1-170
NOT OUT!
Ricky Ponting couldn't get the job done with the bat but he almost makes something happen in the field.
Almost had Graeme Smith out of his ground with some very deft work around the bat, but Smith dived back into his crease just as Ponting's fling at the stumps broke the bails.
7.55pm AEDT - SA 1-161
The Aussie pain shows no sign of abating at the WACA.
Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith continue to pour on the pressure, taking their team's total past 150 for the loss of just one wicket.
That lead is now 223 and the Proteas will almost certainly lead by well over 300 tonight.
7.36pm AEDT - SA 1-131
FIFTY AND NOT OUT!
No sooner has Graeme Smith brought up his half-century than Mitchell Starc smacks him on the back pad, plum in front and he's given out!
Asad Rauf points the finger but Smith wants a review and, sure enough, the ball would have cleared the top of the stumps by a couple of centimetres.
Can't take a trick at the moment, the Aussies. Moments later, another single brings up Amla's 50.
Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith brought up their half-centuries within moments of each other, capping a dominant day at the WACA. Source: Getty Images
7.30pm AEDT - SA 1-119
The bowling changes continue but the scoring remains the same at the WACA, where Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla are (very) quickly taking this one away from the Australians.
Mitchell Starc replaces Shane Watson and concedes seven when Smith picks off a FOUR from the fifth ball of the over, and now John Hastings returns to the attack and is shown not an ounce of respect by Amla.
The South African wanders all over the place before slashing another boundary.
Still going at 7.4 runs an over off the last 10 overs and the Proteas lead by 181.
7.12pm AEDT - SA 1-93
Just like that, South Africa lead by 150.
They've hammered 70 runs off the last 10 overs and this one is fast getting away from Australia.
Amla is on 30 off just 22 balls, while Graeme Smith is 34 off 48.
Nathan Lyon comes into the attack to try to stem the flow but that doesn't work, either.
Hashim Amla cracks yet another boundary as South Africa put their foot on Australia's throat in the second innings in Perth. Source: Getty Images
7pm AEDT - SA 1-71
Michael Clarke will need to change things up at John Hastings' end. The Victorian debutant just cannot get his length right and is punished to the tune of 26 runs off his first three overs.
Hashim Amla had a field day in that last over as Hastings started dropping them short and wide, slashing one FOUR past point and guiding another one for FOUR down to fine leg.
Amla has raced to 17 off just 14 deliveries, with Smith (26 off 38) also picking up the pace.
6.39pm AEDT - SA 1-32 (LEAD BY 94 RUNS)
WICKET!
Sensational solo effort from Mitchell Johnson, and Alviro Petersen is gone!
That's the best piece of cricket we've seen so far in this Test. Johnson hammered one in short to Petersen, who bobbed the ball up with a leading edge and ballooned it to his right.
SEE JOHNSON'S MAGICAL CAUGHT AND BOWLED HERE.
No Australian fieldsmen were within range so Johnson sprinted down the pitch and dived, grabbing the catch just a centimetre off the ground.
Petersen departs for 23, having scored almost all of South Africa's runs so far.
Mitchell Johnson takes a spectacular catch off his own bowling to dismiss Alviro Petersen for 23. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: PerthNow
PROTEAS WELL ON TOP AT TEA
South Africa has set about building a commanding second innings lead after dismissing Australia for just 163 at the WACA Ground.
The Aussies were bowled out in the second session on day two of the third Test, with only Matthew Wade (68) and John Hastings (32) scoring more than 13 runs.
Wasteful has been the word of the day in the middle, as David Warner, Mitchell Johnson and Wade all threw away their wickets with loose shots.
Dale Steyn finished with 4-40 for South Africa, while Robin Petersen's spin copped an early pasting off Wade before he responded to grab three late scalps and close out Australia's innings.
At tea, South Africa is 0-24 and lead the home side by 86 runs.
6.05pm AEDT - SA 0-22
Chances everywhere for the Aussies but nothing sticks.
Two big LBW appeals against Graeme Smith, one off Shane Watson and another off Mitchell Starc, then Alviro Petersen carries a low edge through the slips.
A metre either side and he would have been out just minutes before the tea break.
5.57pm AEDT - SA 0-12
Alviro Petersen ended the Australian innings not 25 minutes ago, and he starts building South Africa's lead early in their second innings, blasting a FOUR off the third ball of Mitchell Starc's first over.
Petersen has all 12 of the Proteas' runs so far, with captain Graeme Smith yet to score off his seven deliveries.
5.33pm AEDT - AUSSIES ALL OUT FOR 163
WICKET!
Magical work from Alviro Petersen on the boundary to catch a well-struck John Hastings lofted drive, and that's ended Australia's innings for a paltry 163 runs.
Hastings went long and high off the bowling of Robin Petersen and Petersen's namesake did well to catch the ball, keep his foot millimetres inside the rope, throw the ball back in before stepping outside then returning to the field of play to complete the catch and the Australians' demise.
Hastings did his job with a patient and well-constructed 32, but the same can't be said for his teammates.
David Warner, Matthew Wade and Mitchell Johnson all threw their wickets away with poor shot selection and have left Australia in a perilous position - trailing South Africa by 62 runs as the Proteas come out to bat again.
5.25pm AEDT - AUS 9-162
WICKET!
Mitchell Johnson takes a leaf out of Matthew Wade's book and ends with the same result.
Robin Petersen was the whipping boy earlier but he now has two scalps after bowling Johnson, too.
Crazy stuff from Johnson, with another unnecessary played and missed sweep rattling the woodwork.
Mitchell Starc comes to the middle and is the last man standing, alongside John Hastings.
Mitchell Johnson hits out and is bowled late in Australia's first innings at the WACA. Source: Getty Images
5.20pm AEDT - AUS 8-161
That's the way to bring up the Aussie 150!
Three FOURS in a row to debutant John Hastings! He was lucky on the first one, just clearing a man at midwicket after miscuing a lofted drive off Robin Petersen.
The next one was almost identical, but the third was a gem, smashed over the leg side field and to the fence.
Three boundaries in a row and Hastings moves to 31.
5.08pm AEDT - AUS 8-149
NOT OUT!
Forget chin music. It's Mitchell Johnson's ribs copping the South African's tune as Morne Morkel gets under the Aussie paceman's defences again.
Then Morkel bangs one in short and wide and Johnson flashes at it. The Proteas reckon he's edged it and ask for a review when the dismissal isn't forthcoming, but the replays show no evidence that he hit it.
4.54pm AEDT - AUS 8-140
WICKET!
It's a matter of when, not if, this Aussie innings finishes in the middle session as the only Australian batsman to put up any kind of meaningful resistance, Matthew Wade, is bowled by Robin Petersen.
Wade was loving Petersen's juicy servings before lunch, helping himself to two sixes off the South African spinner, but Petersen has the last laugh, beating the bat as Wade attempts another slog sweep.
Australia is now 8-140 with only Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc still available to help John Hastings.
Matthew Wade is brought undone by Robin Petersen, who snuck one through as Wade attempted a slog sweep. Source: Getty Images
4.50pm AEDT - AUS 7-139
He may not have the wickets next to his name - other than Mike Hussey's - but Morne Morkel continues to pile the pressure onto the Aussie pair.
His nine overs have yielded 1-13 and he continues to dry up the runs by banging the ball in just short of a length.
Yet another maiden as Matthew Wade sees off all six deliveries.
4.45pm AEDT - AUS 7-139
John Hastings has emerged from a tough early phase and is starting to look comfortable out in the middle, slashing a FOUR over the slips off the third ball of Vernon Philander's 16th over.
The Victorian opened the face nicely and guided it up and above the waiting fieldsmen. The boundary moves him to 15, with Matthew Wade marching along on 68.
4.30pm AEDT - AUS 7-127
Wade and Hastings continue to tick the scoreboard over with little fanfare.
Dale Steyn continues to bowl straight and the Aussies duly work him off their hip, although occasionally there's a fuller one angled across Wade.
First ball of Steyn's 15th over does just that, and beats the outside edge. Pearler of a delivery.
4.15pm AEDT - AUS 7-119
One over down after lunch and both Matthew Wade and John Hastings take one each off it.
Hastings worked Dale Steyn onto the leg side, while Wade picked up where he left off, pulling hard into the turf but picking out a man in the deep.
AUSSIES SEVEN DOWN AT LUNCH
The men in white call for lunch at the WACA Ground after a session completely dominated by South Africa.
Five wickets - including the retiring Ricky Ponting's - fell in two hours of cricket most Aussie fans would prefer to forget as the home side collapsed to be 7-118, still 107 runs short of South Africa's first innings total.
David Warner went first, and his was the worst of them, flashing outside off stump and taking an edge through to the keeper - then wasting a video referral trying to have it overturned.
That brought Ponting to the crease but it was Lyon out next, having edged into the slips.
What was potentially Ponting's final innings lasted only seven deliveries, with the 37-year-old trapped in front by Vernon Philander and given out again after another video referral.
There would be no double century heroics from Michael Clarke, who was dismissed shortly after by a peach of a Dale Steyn delivery that clipped his outside edge and was caught behind by AB de Villiers.
Mike Hussey was the last man out before lunch when he too was undone by an edge to Graeme Smith in the slips.
Matthew Wade has been Australia's one ray of hope, with the keeper-batsman smashing a run-a-ball half-century to enter the long break unbeaten on 60.
Matthew Wade salutes as he reaches 50 for the second time in his Test career. Source: AFP
3.25pm AEDT - AUS 7-116
Wade flashes over the slips for FOUR and the Aussies are now just over halfway to reaching South Africa's first innings score.
Slow going at the other end with John Hastings one off nine deliveries.
Check out the last three Aussie wickets in our interactive scoreboard here.
3.12pm AEDT - AUS 7-106
FIFTY!
More fireworks from Wade as he again lays into Robin Petersen, clubbing his third SIX to go with his five FOURS.
That brings up his half-century, which is all the more impressive given no other Aussie batsman has gone beyond 13.
3.07pm AEDT - AUS 7-100
WICKET!
Matthew Wade will have to go it alone as Mike Hussey departs for 12.
Big, thick edge off Morne Morkel and the South African deserves that one.
Roughed Hussey up a few times in the last couple of overs and got the reward when Hussey edged straight to Graeme Smith in the slips.
John Hastings joins Wade out there on debut.
Mike Hussey became the fifth Australian victim of the first session when Morne Morkel got him edging. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: PerthNow
2.56pm AEDT - AUS 6-94
Must be something about Aussie wicketkeepers. That one looked Adam Gilchrist-esque as Matthew Wade cross-bats that one for SIX.
Huge, bludgeoning shot off the spin of Robin Petersen and Wade races to 40 off 43 balls.
Big chance next ball when he attempts a sweep shot and top edges it, but it falls just short of the man at backward square leg.
And here are a few highlights of this morning's carnage.
2.43pm AEDT - AUS 6-79
After the morning's madness, finally some peace for those of us praying for an Aussie revival.
Mike Hussey (9 off 19) looks set for one of his trademark gritty innings, while Matthew Wade is the perfect match at the other end, playing plenty of shots to move to 27 off 33.
2.25pm AEDT - AUS 6-67
Finally a sign of life from the Australian carcass as Matthew Wade rocks back and smashes a short Philander delivery for SIX.
It's been hard going so far for the Aussie keeper but he frees himself up there and takes full toll.
Big chance goes begging two balls later when South Africa takes third slip out and move him to the covers, and third slip is exactly where Wade edges for FOUR.
2.02pm AEDT - AUS 6-45
WICKET!
There will be no Michael Clarke rescue mission today as the Aussie captain follows Ricky Ponting back to the pavilion for just five!
No doubt about this one as the Aussie skipper nicks Dale Steyn through to the keeper.
This is nothing short of a disaster for Australia, who've lost four wickets in half an hour this morning.
At this rate we'll see Ricky Ponting bat again this arvo.
1.56pm AEDT - AUS 5-43
WICKET!
Ricky Ponting is out.
It lacked the drama of his dismissals in the second Test but the result is the same and he departs for just four runs.
Vernon Philander pitched one up and it crashed into Ponting's pads. He asks for the review but I think he knows. Replays show the ball would have hit middle stump.
The great man departs and the Aussies have lost three wickets in the first five overs.
Ricky Ponting walks from the ground a shattered man after being dismissed for just four runs in Australia's first innings of the third Test against South Africa. Source: Getty Images
1.46pm AEDT - AUS 4-38
There's a good sign - Ponting rocking onto his back foot and blasting Philander for three runs with a classic Punter pull shot.
Right out of the middle. His footwork looks like it's there at least.
1.42pm AEDT - AUS 4-35
WICKET!
Forget Ponting for the moment - there are bigger things at stake here, like whether Australia will last until lunch.
Nathan Lyon did well to hang around last night but he's gone without adding a run to his overnight score, edging to du Plessis at third slip for 7.
Ponting is off the mark, however, having blocked a swinging Dale Steyn delivery into the off side for a single.
Clarke and Punter unite in the middle.
Ricky Ponting strides to the crease for what may be his final innings, after the dismissal of David Warner. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: PerthNow
1.39pm AEDT - AUS 3-34
WICKET!
Dale Steyn thinks breaks through with his first ball as Dave Warner tries to smash him through the off side but takes an outside edge through to the keeper.
De Villiers takes the catch and the South Africans go nuts, but Warner isn't sure if he's hit it. Don't know how you wouldn't know, but he's asked for a review, which eventually gives him out.
You know what that means...Ricky Ponting is walking to the middle and it's - as expected - to a rapturous standing ovation.
Aussies in big trouble here and they need the old warrior to produce something special.
Dale Steyn removes David Warner early on day two of the third Test. Source: Getty Images
1.35pm AEDT - AUS 2-34
The first run of the day goes to Dave Warner, who tucks Vernon Philander behind square for a single.
Nathan Lyon plays and misses late in the over, and shoulders arms to round out the first over.
Dale Steyn into the attack.
1.29pm AEDT
The heat must be getting to the WACA crowd already, as they give Nathan Lyon a standing ovation, seemingly confusing him with Ricky Ponting.
1.25pm AEDT
We're five minutes away from a start in Perth.
Bound to be a huge and emotional day for the Aussie team and Australian cricket in general, as Ricky Ponting strides to the crease at some stage this afternoon for what could be his final Test innings.
I'm hoping with every fibre in my body that he produces something resembling the Ricky of old. I fear that may be fanciful, but you never know.
The players have just made their way onto the ground, and Nathan Lyon gets another crack at making his first Test half-century.
He was declared on while in the 40s in the West Indies, and he did well to survive last night.
Here we go...
1pm AEDT
Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to our live coverage of day two of the third and deciding Test between Australia and South Africa at the WACA Ground.
Australia will resume at 2-33, with opener David Warner not out 12 and nightwatchman Nathan Lyon on seven, following a thrilling opening day's play dominated by the bowlers.
The Aussies trail South Africa's first innings of 225 by 192 runs and will be hoping to reel in that total before going on to post a big lead.
Play expected to start about 1.30pm AEDT.
Remember, we welcome your comments on the day's action via twitter at @AJBallantyne, email adrian.ballantyne@news.com.au or hit the comment box at the bottom of this page.
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