Pup can't pip Proteas

This week gave me the chance to see lovely shots of Table Mountain on TV here in London. Newlands, the beautiful cricket ground in Cape Town, was the scene of the first test between SA and Australia. I've been there so many times. The game was an amazing statistical anomaly. On what seemed to be a difficult, damp pitch on the first day, Michael Clarke, the Ozzie captain, made an imperious 151 but all the other batsmen struggled. On the second day, the Proteas capitulated making less than 100 and leaving themselves, seemingly, well out of the game. The SA seamers then ripped Oz to pieces, reducing them to 21/9 before they eked out 47. This was, I think, the lowest score by Australia since World War 2. Clarke, known as Pup, managed just 2 in his second knock. The Proteas then knocked off the 236 needed to win with 8 wickets to spare, making it look so easy. It was a story book ending for Protea's captain, Graeme Smith. Hashim Amla made his century, getting there with 4 successive fours and then went out. That gave Smith just enough time to make his 100 and hit the winning runs. The QSL is from Pup's home state, New South Wales. The station is 2AY, Albury, heard in Morgan Bay, South Africa in 1992. This is only 2kW, one of my best AM catches.