Proteas collapse after Kallis century

DURBAN – South Africa collapsed against the second new ball as Australia took a first-innings lead of 102 runs on the third day of the second Test against Australia at Kingsmead yesterday.

Fast bowler Brett Lee took five for 69 as South Africa were bowled out for 267 shortly before tea. Jacques Kallis made a patient 114 for South Africa but his dismissal in the second over with the new ball triggered a collapse in which the last five wickets fell for 12 runs in 34 balls.Kallis was caught and bowled by Stuart Clark, with the ball looping back to the bowler off a leading edge as Kallis tried to turn Clark’s first delivery with the new ball to leg.Lee then ripped through the rest of the batting, taking four wickets for nine runs.His third wicket, that of Mark Boucher, was his 200th in Tests.Kallis played an innings of contrasts.He started with a blaze of strokes Saturday, reaching his half-century off 49 balls.After his overnight partner, AB de Villiers, was out to the 12th ball of the day, Kallis went on the defensive on a pitch of uneven bounce on which run-scoring had been difficult throughout the match.De Villiers and Kallis put on 134 for the third wicket.Kallis played only four scoring strokes in the first hour, three singles and a pulled four off Clark, as he moved from 72 to 79.Left-hander Ashwell Prince was more aggressive, making 33 before he was caught at square leg off Shane Warne, dancing down the pitch but mistiming an attempted hit to midwicket.Kallis reached his 24th Test century and his third against Australia in the last over before lunch when he punched Warne through the covers for his 17th boundary.Australia lead the three-match series 1-0.-Nampa-AFPJacques Kallis made a patient 114 for South Africa but his dismissal in the second over with the new ball triggered a collapse in which the last five wickets fell for 12 runs in 34 balls.Kallis was caught and bowled by Stuart Clark, with the ball looping back to the bowler off a leading edge as Kallis tried to turn Clark’s first delivery with the new ball to leg.Lee then ripped through the rest of the batting, taking four wickets for nine runs.His third wicket, that of Mark Boucher, was his 200th in Tests.Kallis played an innings of contrasts.He started with a blaze of strokes Saturday, reaching his half-century off 49 balls.After his overnight partner, AB de Villiers, was out to the 12th ball of the day, Kallis went on the defensive on a pitch of uneven bounce on which run-scoring had been difficult throughout the match.De Villiers and Kallis put on 134 for the third wicket.Kallis played only four scoring strokes in the first hour, three singles and a pulled four off Clark, as he moved from 72 to 79.Left-hander Ashwell Prince was more aggressive, making 33 before he was caught at square leg off Shane Warne, dancing down the pitch but mistiming an attempted hit to midwicket.Kallis reached his 24th Test century and his third against Australia in the last over before lunch when he punched Warne through the covers for his 17th boundary.Australia lead the three-match series 1-0.-Nampa-AFP