Proteas will have to come out swinging
By TMG Editor - 20 February 2014
Telford Vice
MAYBE we just do not like to throw the first punch, was the most telling thing Graeme Smith said yesterday ahead of today's second test against Australia at St George's Park.
South Africa threw precious few punches in the first test at Centurion. If the match had been a prize fight, Australia would have won by TKO after two days when SA were 257 runs behind with just four wickets standing.
For the Aussies, Ryan Harris snapped sniping jabs, Peter Siddle's straight right was trusty and Nathan Lyon parried and held on effectively. But the vicious uppercuts and left hooks came from Mitchell Johnson, who took 12-127.
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