South Africa 236 for 2 (Amla 112, Smith 101*) and 96 (Watson 5-17, Harris 4-33) beat Australia 284 (Clarke 151, Steyn 4-55) and 47 (Philander 5-15, Morkel 3-9) by eight wickets

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Nick Hancock, the brains behind the excellent new cricket panel show The Sledge, shares his weird and wonderful thoughts on the South Africa vs Australia test series which commences later today.

THE DEVIL’S IN THE PREAMBLE

Australian test cricket is in a bit of a spin. Not a terminal decline, mind you – more of a ‘loop-the-loop.’ The question begging to be answered: just how ARE we performing? Should we be worried about our test cricketers, or hopeful about our future prospects?

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Smith lovechild rumours may explain Harpergate

Those looking for reasons behind Daryl Harper’s shocking error not to give Graeme Smith out on appeal at a crucial point in South Africa’s first innings in the crunch 4^th test has taking a surprising twist.

For those on Mars who didn’t see the incident, England referred a caught behind appeal to the third umpire after Smith appeared to edge an attempted cut off Ryan Sidebottom.

A clear noise was heard on the replays run by Sky Sports so England supporters expected an early breakthrough to be confirmed with the dismissal of the Saffers captain and joint best batsman along with Kallis.

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I’ve noticed recently that a growing number of cricketers are getting themselves connected online and find themselves on Facebook.

This got me wondering who is likely to be the most popular. Surely the god-like status of Sachin, Dhoni and Sharma in India would see them at the top of the tree. Seeing Dhoni get his haircut (a la Samson) with a crowd of 40,000 longing outside made the 6pm UK national news was another factor behind my thoughts.

However, after thorough investigation the most popular cricket captains in the world on facebook sprang a few surprises . . .

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