M.Clarke 161- vs SouthAfrica, Capetown 2014- Captain Courageous
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00:00it's off the edge it'll go for four
00:14and expect some short ones
00:18he certainly will particularly with a field that's set there's two back on the hook and there's a
00:22he's taking some blows here he doesn't want to play the ball it's hardest against morkel
00:32because he can make it bounce from back of the length the ball doesn't have to be that short
00:38clark either has to take it on or get right out of the way of it
00:43and he does play it well when he takes it on we've seen that that would have been a painful blow on
00:47the forearm
00:56morkel is steaming in might be that you're just turning on and wondering what's happened here at
01:01newlands well until this period things have been plain sailing for the australians who won the
01:07toss chose to bat pitch is good warner has a hundred rogers made 20 doolan made 20 and now
01:14the australian captain one of the finest players anywhere on the planet over the last four or
01:19five years getting a real going over from morning morkel looks as if there is a problem for michael
01:27clark and then the concern will be that there's some damage done to that that forearm or that wrist
01:37i'd almost
01:42there you go
01:44that's the bruise and if it comes up that quick
01:50i just wonder if there's damage there more damage i mean structural
01:55damage it'll take a lot to get michael clark off the field that i know
02:03um
02:22this time to the side of the face or the side of the head i should say
02:26and exactly where it hit him but this is a proper working over
02:42well the team doctors come out to look as well he'll be worried about that
02:47area just at the base of the cranium but on that left side of the head
02:56oh and it's just mr stumps as it ricochets off michael clark it loops behind him he had no idea
03:05where that ball was and this crowd is just loving it this is the hardest contest you'll see
03:16got a contest a brilliant bowler versus one of the best batsmen in the world
03:22michael clark taking his eyes off it again that comes straight off the glove so he's fortunate
03:26a that it didn't go to short leg and secondly it didn't roll back onto the stumps
03:34proper proper justice
03:40and this time he does decide to pull and he gets hit in the stomach jackets
03:43so
04:06we have a little bit of news also about dale stain he's got a right hamstring strain
04:13and is being treated at the moment so that doesn't sound all that promising
04:22eases that away
04:30and there it is again banged in nothing up to the bat michael clark is sitting so deep in the crease
04:36he's expecting virtually every ball to be banged in and he hasn't been disappointed that's what
04:40he's that's what he's been receiving too many short every now and again
04:50now faf to the city picked up a great catch in that region in
04:53port elizabeth that wasn't too far away it didn't carry it scooted away pretty quickly
05:00that's a beautiful shot just punched off the back foot just in front of point and gone for four
05:10now before short wide and cut away
05:23morning mark is out deep on the offside but the position that he has been placed is more for the
05:28drive than the cut so you certainly don't lift showed a lot of courage good temperament good
05:35technique and he's always quick and eager to get down the deck to the spinners wherever possible
05:42that's one to bring up that 50 appreciated by his teammates there's no doubt he would have
05:48been a bit concerned of light since sir dad lay test of the ashes where he wasn't
05:52when you're drifting it down the next side
05:53four runs short wide and cut away he's reaping the rewards of toughing it out earlier michael clark
06:11short and wide goes harder this one plays it beautifully executes it
06:16very well it's width on offer it's back of a length and there's no one behind square on that
06:22offside it's into a good position and hammers it behind square
06:39so
06:49that's brought a change of field for the south africans one of the slips has come out and gone
06:53to leg slip morning milk was not going to come around the wicket man's gone back on the leg side
07:01it's up it's in the air it's peterson after a car get there
07:10so close
07:15partnership 101
07:21i don't think you could say he was in total control of that shot but he knew exactly where
07:26the fielder was he had to be in front of square there were already two men behind square so he
07:32tried his best to paddle it behind square that's why he had a chance of surviving and of course he
07:38did tried to ride it then got bigger than he expected might well have wrapped him on the
07:51fingers yeah it has he's calling somebody oh thumb oh that's going to be painful
07:59oh yeah problems ball hitting straight up on that thumb
08:13there's two kind of blows when it involves the finger one is when the bet
08:17handle is squashed or your fingers squashed between the ball and the
08:21the other one is the thumb
08:25he's got it through
08:29he's into the 90s michael clark
08:33slightly over pitch on the leg side easily a bit too straight again from
08:37vernon the ball's going to win it's going to take him now to 98
08:43well beautifully played dan's still at the crease nice and upright over the top of this
08:49yeah last time he was here michael clark he scored a sublime 151 when a lot of the batsmen
08:55he couldn't a completely different game to the rest of the guys and
08:59that game was all over very smartly now he's on 98
09:06quick single chance direct hit minor found him wanting
09:09he was at could have been a hundred and three right off stump of a good length
09:13of a good length he's done it
09:20battered bruised but not beaten michael clark has made a hundred from the test match
09:26trenches here in cape town what a magnificent performance
09:33and appreciated by all players standing they understand how difficult it was for my plate
09:39not only coming into this game short of runs
09:45such a big match for the australians he wanted to lead from the front
09:48and he's done it in the very best way has shown a lot of courage there's no doubt about that and
09:54when you ask him about this test knock it might be all down to the mental battle
09:59his own mental battle that he had to fight there's the stats 215 delivery
10:04oh there he goes with that short ball attack again mornay morkel
10:21not a bad ploy looking for that leg stump in case that michael clark goes across
10:29to just let the ball go if it's ribs
10:34yeah he's the foot over midwickett pulled away well enough just had plenty of time
10:44to play that shot and that takes him through to an outstanding 150.
10:5210th time that michael clark goes past 115 test match cricket for australia
10:58a fighting innings this has been
11:04and he's fought his way to fluency as he continues to ply pile on the right
11:21486 for five
11:28didn't quite get all of that outside half of the bat quinton de cock does the fielding
11:39ryan mclaren also on the part yeah it's certainly looking a little bit threatening
11:44if it does come in which it looks like it might be on the way it's a little bit earlier than
11:48what was forecast let's hope be happy that they got three sticks
11:54well that rain which we all had set in and it meant there was no more play
11:58in the day so australia closed day two of the