Cronje flicked at a wide leg-side delivery and was caught behind the wicket by Ian Healy for

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Published: July 16, 2010

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Cronje flicked at a wide leg-side delivery and was caught behind the wicket by Ian Healy for 22.Earlier, Waugh and Greg Blewett had effectively batted South Africa out of the game with their fifth-wicket partnership as Australia resumed on 479 for 4 after the pair had batted throughout the third day.Waugh was finally caught behind just before lunch for 160 from 366 balls in 501 minutes with 22 fours. His 12th Test century was also his seventh score in excess of 150.Blewett’s innings beat the previous best at this ground, Mike Atherton’s unbeaten 185 two years ago. When Blewett was eventually caught off the back of the bat by Paul Adams at third man, he had made 214 in 519 minutes from 421 balls and hit 34 boundaries.The partnership was the highest against South Africa in Tests, beating the 370 for the third wicket by the English pair of Bill Edrich and Denis Compton at Lord’s in 1947.The previous highest Australian partnership for any wicket against South Africa was 275 for the fifth wicket by Colin McDonald and Lindsay Hassett in Adelaide in 1952-53.JOHANNESBURG SCOREBOARDFourth day, South Africa won tossSOUTH AFRICA – First innings 302 ( W J Cronje 76, D J Richardson 72no).AUSTRALIA – First innings(Overnight 479-4)S R Waugh c Richardson b Kallis 160G S Blewett c Adams b Klusener 214M G Bevan not out 37I A Healy c Kirsten b Adams 11S K Warne b Cronje 9Extras (b1 lb15, nb10, w4) 30Total (for 8 dec) 628Fall (cont): 5-559 6-577 7-613 8-628.Did not bat: J N Gillespie, G D McGrath.Bowling: Donald 35-7-136-2 (nb1, w2); Pollock 32-3-105-2 (nb8); Klusener 37-10-122-1 (nb1); Kallis 21-4-54-1 (w2); Adams 52-7-163-1; Cronje 16.4- 5-32-1.SOUTH AFRICA – Second inningsA C Hudson run out 31G Kirsten b Warne 8J H Kallis not out 29D J Cullinan c Healy b Warne 0*W J Cronje c Healy b S R Waugh 22J N Rhodes not out 3Extras (b4 lb2 6Total (for 4) 99To bat: S M Pollock, L Klusener, D J Richardson, A A Donald, P R Adams.Fall: 1-36 2-41 3-46 4-90.Bowling: McGrath 10-5-17-0; Gillespie 11-4-24-0; Warne 18-9-32-2; Bevan 5-0-16-0; S R Waugh 4-1-4-1.Umpires: C J Mitchley (SA) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind).. Colin McRae yesterday experienced perhaps the most extraordinary race of his career with a hard-fought victory in the Safari Rally in Nairobi. McRae suffered electrical difficulties with his Subaru over the closing stages, but clutch problems for second-placed fellow Briton Richard Burns ensured McRae finished more than seven minutes ahead of the field.
Fortunately for the Scot, there was no repeat of Sunday’s problems when vandals left a pile of rocks in his path forcing him to swerve and crash through a wall at full speed. The steering rack and left front wishbone took the main impact, but after a delay of around three minutes he managed to return to the action.

He still finished the second leg in the lead and held on yesterday to earn his first, and Subaru’s third, success of the year.McRae had managed just one fourth place in the previous two rounds of the championship. He had a problem with the alternator in the morning but, once that was fixed, he drove faultlessly to victory over Burns in the Mitsubishi Carisma and third-placed Kenya’s Ian Duncan in a Toyota.Burns’ second place, after driving for most of the day without a clutch, was a boost for Mitsubishi, particularly as they lost the reigning world champion, Tommi Makinen, yesterday. The Finn retired after a puncture saw him drive 25 miles with a flat tyre, causing his rear suspension to fail.On the rally’s opening day, both the series leader Carlos Sainz, in a Ford Escort, and McRae’s Subaru team-mate, Kenneth Eriksson, were forced to retire due to mechanical problems caused by the rocky terrain.McRae now has 13 points in the drivers’ championship after three rounds, with Sainz in second place with 12 and Eriksson and Italy’s Piero Liatti in joint third place on 10 points. Subaru maintain their lead in the manufacturers’ championship.Results, Digest, page 25.

It sounds like a bad day at San Siro or the Aztec stadium: controversial sendings-off, a mass punch-up featuring an unholy mixture of players and supporters and a decisive intervention by police wearing riot gear But this was no outbreak of Latin soccer violence. This happened at, er, Mumbles RFC, the leaders of the Heineken League Division Seven, no less

Mind you, it was a big old game. Mumbles were hosting second-placed Cwmllynfell in a west Wales derby, and with so much at stake that you could cut the atmosphere with a lump hammer. When the fur began to fly during the second half, members of the South Wales constabulary might have felt more at home in Sao Paulo or Bogota, despite the lack of humidity down there on the Gower coast.
Four players, three of them from the visiting side, were invited by the referee, Hugh Banfield, to make an early departure from the arena and one of them, the Cwmllynfell full-back, Christian Walsh, collected his marching orders for participating in the “Mumbles Rumble” that had broken out among the 500 spectators.Walsh later insisted that he had been attempting to stop the violence but that only happened when a posse of very serious-looking police officers arrived. “Because of the nature of the call we received, we gave the incident high-profile policing,” a force spokesman said.

“The trouble soon died down and we did not have to make any arrests.”Banfield, the official at the centre of the recent Welsh referees’ pay strike, is now compiling his match report. “I’ll be mentioning what happened both on and off the field,” he promised yesterday It should make fascinating reading.Alan Watkins, page 24. ‘Phil, look me in the eye and tell me those black cornflakey bits aren’t better out than in?” I hadn’t seen Max since my stag night, when he engineered the most indescribably humiliating exp erience of my life to date, barely concealed from my wife by the judicious use of boxer shorts in bed for the fortnight before our wedding She thought I was just being quaint. After that, Max and I drifted apart and despite assurances that the negatives have been destroyed, I’ve never really trusted him. So when he phoned to say he was staying at The Swallow for the weekend and did I fancy “an all-night session”, I accepted with mixed emotions. Max did a classics degree, but apart from that he’s a man’s man – a stocky, aggressive carnivore who refuses to eat vegetables and had a trial for Yorkshire schools at hooker. True, he went to Girton, started to play on the wing and has visibly softened since the birth of his son, but he’s the last person in the world I’d associate with colonic irrigation.

For a start, men in general don’t go in for that sort of thing. Latent phobias of hoses up the arse are rife among British chaps, and hence 95 per cent of UK irrigants (and irrigators) are women. So was he taking the piss?
“Do I look as if I’m taking the piss?”"Yes.”"Well, I’m deadly serious You’re the one who’s snickering. You bloody doctors are so dismissive of anything different, anything new, anything that challenges your ‘hack it out and plumb it into a Sainsbury’s bag’ view of bowel disorders Well, that’s too late for me. I’m not waiting until I get cancer or irritable bowel or any of the other millions of diet-related disorders. I’m into prevention – flush out all the crud and toxins.”"Hmphph.”"Don’t bloody smirk, Hammond I tell you, you feel absolutely marvellous afterwards. It’s the best feeling in the world.”"Better than sex?”"Well…


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