The first day was dominated by the South African batsmen after Graeme Smith won the toss and decided to make first use of the pitch. The two openers, Smith and Gibbs, gave the team a solid start, however, just as things were looking good, Pakistan struck back with two quick wickets. Smith completely misjudged the length of a Mohammad Hafeez delivery and was caught on the backfoot to a fuller length ball. He was LBW on 42 from only 66 balls. Gibbs edged a wide delivery to gully only to see Mohammad Hafeez take a very good low catch.
Amla and Kallis put on a massive 170 run partnership before a beauty from Mohammad Asif rocked Amla’s off stump. The damage had been done, and even though Amla may be disappointed on missing out on a three figure score, he had done his job to perfection. Kallis in the meantime had reached his 25th century from a 147 balls. He is going to be the key man for South Africa and Pakistan will be looking to get him out as soon as possible.
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