How bloody good are the Aussies?

[Dazza]

Ponting got the job....that came as a bit of a surprise!!

I think Warne would have made a better captain....I like his attacking style when he has been captain before. But then I guess there looking to the future with the possibility of ponting captaining the test team.

Glad it wasnt Gilly....he has enough of a leadership role just being Wicket Keeper....I think Keepers make good vice captains.

I have a feeling Mark Waugh will have a return to form in SA

[larry emdur is my hero!]

i agree, i wouldn't drop mark at all.  Whether the selectors agree is another thing entirely.  If plays well enough in the tests he should be fine.  
Yep Captain, i'm definantly a bomber - a somewhat dissapointed bomber after yesterday's performance.  Skill level seemed way down, but i suppose its only pre-season..  
Bloody Port Power, there just full of bomber rejects anyway.

[sTuDiO_DeSiGn]

GO Punter, Warne's the next to go shortly followed by Junior.........watch the Tour of SA very closely.........

[dirtgirl]

Best defense is to kick arse! Go stevie waugh!! (While I'm at it: Fuck West Coast Eagles   )

[sTuDiO_DeSiGn]

Tugga's my fav player, should of kept him as in the side at least.......

Go the Swannies........

[dirtgirl]

Carn the blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

[larry emdur is my hero!]

Australia completed the most crushing win of its long Test history when Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath led an astonishing triumph over South Africa in the first Test at the Wanderers.

Australia won by an innings and 360 runs inside three days - a result only beaten by the 1938 English team when it thrashed Don Bradman's Australians by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval.

Warne (4-44) and McGrath (5-21) led the feast on the shattered South Africans, who collapsed for 159 and 133 in reply to Australia's 7-652 declared.

Warne became the second leading wicket-taker in Tests when he claimed three wickets in 10 balls before tea, bringing his tally to 436 wickets, behind only retired West Indian Courtney Walsh (519).

McGrath then claimed three wickets in four balls after the tea break as Australia finished the match in fitting style after almost three days of complete dominance of the team rated second in the world.

South Africa's misery ended when veteran paceman Allan Donald, perhaps playing his last Test, spooned McGrath to Matthew Hayden in the gully to complete a day when the home team lost 16-101.

After the result, and considering Australia's clean sweep of South Africa at home earlier this summer, the Proteas have virtually no hope of regathering for the second and third Tests next month.

It was a remarkable win, built on one of the most complete team performances in recent memory with each of the batsmen making a start and the bowlers sharing the wickets.

[dirtgirl]

And who said we couldn't show the Proteas a thing or two?  

[Dazza]

We have had the wood over the South Africans for a while now.....and that match shows we will probably dominate them for a long time to come...that said I think SA will do well in the one day series against aus

Now we just have to beat the kiwis

[sTuDiO_DeSiGn]

GO Gillie wat a double tonne, who was the last wicketkeeper to score a double tonne?

[Captain BJ]

Don't have time to find the stats on it... But Gilly's was the fourth test double-century by a wicket-keeper, and the first by an Australian keeper. Also the fastest double ton ever.

By the way I think South Africa lost 16/201 maybe, because they couldn't lose 16/101 because that would include a whole innings, and they made two innings of over 101.

[sTuDiO_DeSiGn]

U could tell that he wanted to hit that sign for 200,000.......