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Final day awaits a thriller

Reiffel repels SA surge
MELBOURNE. Dec 29: Paul Relffel hit a brilliant unbeaten 79 and then removed opener Gary Kirs-
ten to put Australia in the box seat in the first cricket Test against South Africa on Monday, reports AP.
Set to make an imposing 381 runs to win in a minimum of 120 overs. South Africa were 79 for one at stumps on the penultimate day.
Opener Adam Bacher overcame his indifferent tour form with a fine 34 and No. 3 Jacques Kallis was unbeaten on 40 at the close.
Bacher was dropped by Ricky Ponting off Glenn McGrath at short leg when the right-hander had scored just one run.
The second-wicket pair batted boldly to defy the Australian attack for 98 minutes after Kirsten was bowled with Just two runs on the board.
It gave Relffel his 100th Test wicket in his 33rd appearance since making his debut against India in Perth in 1992.
Bacher and Kallis will start fresh on the fifth day in search of another 302 runs required for an unlikely win and a 1-0 , lead in the three-match series.
Australia's lower-order bat-‘ ting would have provided some encouragement for the South African batsmen on a wicket that has proved to be a monster on the first three days.
The threat of Shane Warne looms over the South Africans on the last day. but temporarily the leg-spinner was smacked* around the Melbourne Cricket Ground by Kallis.
Kallis hit Warne for two boundaries in an qver despite the vicious turn he extracted off the bowlers' foot marks.
The home side recovered from a perilously-placed 146 for eight as Relffel put on 62 in even time for the ninth wicket with Michael Kasprowicz (19) and another 49 with No. 11 Glenn McGrath (18).
Relffel, who topped the batting averages against England and New Zealand this year, made Ms highest Test score. He improved on his TJ against New Zealand in Brisbane in the flrot Test this year.
Since his recall as a replacement for the Ashes tour. Relffel, 31, has scored 463 runs at an average of 66.14 with three half centuries.
Australia, resuming the day on 67 for four, slowly ground out the South African attack despite some menacing bowling by fast bowler Allan Donald.
Donald, who ripped through the Australian top order on the third evening, added the wicket
of Ian Healy. Warne and Kasprowicz to finish with 6-59.
When he removed Kasprowicz, Donald became South Africa's leading wicket-taker — 171 wickets in 36 Tests — to pass Hugh Tayfleld's 170 wickets in 37 matches.
Donald took three wickets in Australia's first innings and has completed a match bag of 9-133.
Skipper Mark Taylor batted patientfy for his 59 runs and put on 62 runs with Ponting after Donald had given the home side a scare, reducing them to 44 for four.
Ponting, Australia's first-innings hero with a brilliant 105. contributed another 32 and was one of the four to fall before lunch.
Australia lost four for 79 before lunch, including Taylor in controversial circumstances.
Off-spinner Pat Symcox had Taylor caught at first slip by Ml Cullinan but there was over whether the skipper hit the ball which spun a long way out of the footmarks.
Taylor batted for 248 minutes and hit Just four boundaries off 195 balls.