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One of Ponting's highs

Aussies take winning lead against SA

AFP, Durban
Australia captain Kicky Ponting said Hiesday that clinching a senes win in South Africa here on Tuesday was one of the highlightsofhis career.
■Australia won the second Test by 175 runs at Kingsinead to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, bouncing straight back from lasing at home against the same opponents in Australia earlier in the season.
It’s wry' satisfying with this group of players that we've been able to play at this same level over the last couple of weeks," saidPonting
' We w played some amazing cricket, pronably a level of cricket that everybody outside our dressing room thought we weren't capableof This is almost as happy as 1 hare been in my career as an Australian player.
Ponting said the team's week of preparation in die small (own of Potchefstroom had been a key to their success.
He revealed he had always been confident that the team could win in South Africa despite the inexperience of many of the players.
"L absolutely felt we could win here and I made that wry clear to a number of people in Australia." he said.
We've got a wry proud record against these guys over a long period of time and probably more so in the conditions here in South Africa.
T just felt that with the good players we had here and the conditions we would have in Johannesburg and Durban that we could adapt and play some really good cricket.
Ponting said the scries in Australia had been closer than the results indicated.
"We dominated certain parts of the first two Test matches without winning them. What we’re done here is we're dominated the games but not let them back into them. We've played our best cricket for longer periods of ume."
The series win ensured that Australia would retain the official world championship and earn 175 000 dollars in prize money and the International Cricket Council championship mace at the cut-off date of.April 1.
But Ponting said the cham-
pionship itself had not been a motivating factor.
"1 haven't mentioned the trophy once around this group of players because it’s not the reason why we play, " he added
"We play to win games of cricket lor Australia and to do the best we can lor each other .is a group of players
"Having said that, it is satisfying that the trophy will be staving in Australia
South African skipper Graeme Smith said: It's been a wry disappointing scries especially alter what we have achieved over the last 12 or 16 months. We just hawrit been able to maintain the intensity and lewT of play we've got used to.
"Ricky and his team played wry good, disciplined cricket and kept us under pressure for long periods of lime which we haven't been able to sustain.
Smith admitted that his team's performance had been disappointing.
"They created pressure and haw been sharper and more intense (han us," ne said.
"In particular they have bowled really well as a unit. They have created and sustained pressure on our batters.
"We haven't won a toss, we've bowled first throughout the series and we haven't started with that same level of
intensity that we've had owr the past 16 months and particularly in Australia to create that pressure."
South Africa were bowled out for 370 in their second innings with 37.4 overs to spare on Ilie final day
The victory was virtually sealed when the tourists dismissed overnight batsmen Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers inside the first hour.
South Africa lost another two wickets before lunch. /Although Mark Boucher and Morne Morkel resisted for 79 minutes after the break, the end came quickly after Boucher gave a return catch to pari-lime spinner Marcus North
Kallis and De Villiers made their third wicket stand worth 187 before Kallis was caught at second slip off Mitchell Johnson in the sixtli owr of the day for 93.
Kallis added just five runs after being dropped by Michael Clarke at point off Ben 1 {ilfenhaus in the previous over.
lliree overs later De Villiers was caught behind in Peter Siddle's first owrof thedayforB4.
With no chance of chasing down a target of 546, Duminy and Boucher resisted for an hour until Duminy was caught behind for 17, gloving a vicious lifter from Hilfenhaus.
SCOREBOARD
Pinal scoreboard on the fifth
and final day of the second Test between South Africa and Australia at Kingsmcad on Tuesday:
AUSTRALIA: First innings 352 SOU TH AFRICA: f irst innings 138
AUSTRALIA: Second innings 331-5 dec
SOUTH Al RICA: Second innings
Amlac Ponting bSiddlc 43
McKenzie cHaddinbSddle 31
Kallis cPontingb Johnson 93
DeVi'IierscHaddmbSiddle 84
Dummy cHaddmbHilfenhaus 17
Boucher c&b North 25
Harris cSiddlcbKatich 5
Morkel c I laddinb Katich 24
Steyn st Haddin b Katich 7
Ntininotout 4
Smith absent injured
Extras (b-13, lb-11.nb-10.w-3) 37
Total (All out in 132.2 overs) 370
Fall of wickets: 1-63, 2 80. 3-267,4 279.5-299,6-307,7-345.
Bowler O M R W
Johnson 33 9 78 1
Hilfenhaus 24 4 79 1
Siddlc 28 12 61 3
McDonald 16 3 47 0
North 20 6 36 1
Katich 11.2 1 45 3
Result: Australia won by 175 runs and lead three match series 2-0.
Man-of-the-match: Phillip Hughes.
Remaining match: March 19-23,CapeTown.