00:00Full shot, A.B. de Villiers just rocks back, swivels and finds four.
00:11That's through, there's a bit of width, nicely timed from de Villiers.
00:16Good shot, it shouldn't be too discouraging off spinner, you want them driving there as long as you can drift away and spin it back.
00:23But the breeze may be pushing it too straight, you have to spin it back against this fairly strong breeze coming down the ground.
00:30It looked as though he actually got a little bit of drift away on that occasion, and it just drifted into a nice slot for de Villiers.
00:41Uses the feet, and finds the gap too, that'll be four.
00:44Well it was in it being a full toss, a bit of a gift from Lyon.
00:50De Villiers said thank you very much, three for 3.25.
00:56That's a good shot there, it's timed that alright.
01:00He's on to that short one very quickly, hit it in front of square.
01:05Three for 3.38.
01:08Down the ground, that'll be all the way, that's beautifully hit.
01:11That's a mile back.
01:13That's almost a mark, oh, that was good, used his feet beautifully, he tried to get that early on, didn't quite get there, this time he was right on the money.
01:25Clean as a whistle.
01:25Good golfer and a good hockey player.
01:31A.B. de Villiers, probably incorporated a bit of both those sports in that shot.
01:37Now the reverse sweep, that'll be four more down there.
01:40It's quick down there.
01:42South Africa might have just about had enough here, they thought to themselves, it's time to put the foot down.
01:47A.B. de Villiers decided he's going to make the running and give Elmer a spell at the other end.
01:55He did this early on, controlled.
01:58Very quick down there, all of a sudden he's hit ten, six and a four.
02:03He's now 39.
02:04Slashed for four.
02:10Brilliant shot, average ball.
02:12De Villiers goes to 53.
02:16Yeah, well about it.
02:17I don't want to talk about this new technique, what he's got going, but he's averaging pretty well in the last few years, so it's effective, he works hard, he had a lot of throwdowns at the end of yesterday.
02:27He went out and he had someone throwing to him for a good 20 minutes or so.
02:30Well that's whipped off his pads, Mitchell starts getting at the swing, but on to the wrong line.
02:46Style and power.
02:50This is his highest score as a wicketkeeper.
02:53Three for 400.
02:58That's another beauty.
02:59Such control of the bat.
03:01When this guy's at his best, because his hands are so good, he plays any sport, and he's brilliant at pretty much all of them.
03:08But he's got the bat under control.
03:09Stats of A.B. De Villiers since 2008, and he's averaging over 60.
03:16And this has been a smart innings.
03:18Look at that again, he races to 97.
03:21It's a good way to get through the 90s quickly.
03:22Well, you can play that shot, as I said, if you're bowling quickly.
03:26The spinner's bowling too quick.
03:27That one was better.
03:28That was 86km.
03:30Try and beat the guy in the flight.
03:32When he's playing a shot like that, there's plenty of risk there.
03:34There's even more risk if there's a bit of flight.
03:36To De Villiers.
03:37He goes again.
03:39Does he get it away?
03:40He's got at least three.
03:40There'll be a boundary.
03:42And a test match under it.
03:43It's his 14th, and it's been a superb innings.
03:48South Africa, are they batting Australia out of the game?
03:53The lead now, 512.
04:01His first as a wicketkeeper for South Africa, A.B. De Villiers.
04:05He decided to go three in a row.
04:07Three reverse sweeps in a row, and there's still three balls left.
04:09That one's down the ground, and away.
04:15That's another superb shot.
04:17I know that he timed it, in fact.
04:19It was a bit of a thick inside edge.
04:23There's that reverse.
04:24Oh, how good is he at it?
04:26There's a man there now.
04:28Ed Cowan has come into the position a lot finer than he was previously,
04:32and he's given it the brule cream.
04:34It's really fine.
04:36And this is the chop-chop.
04:39Chop-chop-chop.
04:41Beautiful.
04:41Just a little guillotine, and gets enough connection.
04:46Good middle of the bat.
04:48Sort of takes the bat away from it as the ball's approaching,
04:52and runs it away.
04:54Brilliant.
04:55Expecting South Africa to come at them.
04:57Oh, that's good.
04:59That's real good.
05:00They've broken the sequence of ones and twos with a four.
05:07Off the pitch.
05:08Short ball.
05:10Slammed.
05:11Well in front of square.
05:16John Hastings on the boost, getting a lesson here that you must remain calm.
05:21Keep it on a length.
05:22If you hit a good ball for four, that's fair enough.
05:24But when you bowl bad balls to guys who are 100,
05:26and the guy that's having probably two best test matches of his life,
05:31if I say,
05:32that's just glorious shot, but a very poor ball.
05:35At this pace.
05:36Look, halfway, and he goes, bang, swatted it over mid-wicket.
05:41That's a slog.
05:44Has he got enough on it?
05:45Oh, he has.
05:46It's all the way.
05:49That's a long boundary.
05:50It's a good slog.
05:51Right off the meat of the bat.
05:53He's on fire to the list.
05:55That's a long, long hit on any ground, that one.
05:58It's a genuine six.
06:03It's five for 504 now.
06:05We're into the 100th over.
06:07Take another over.
06:07At least, maybe two.
06:09Yeah, here we go.
06:10The conventional sweep.
06:11He just gets down on one knee,
06:13waits for the ball,
06:14and he's got it for four.
06:16Yes!
06:20What old mate of mine,
06:22this is hurting him badly.
06:25Oh, and that's just swatted down the ground
06:27from well outside off.
06:29AB De Villiers makes it look easy.
06:32It's 150.
06:4024th in 152.
06:45That could have been driven through or over cover,
06:50but it's slammed right in mid-iron for six.
06:54Oh, what a massive strike that was.
06:58I don't even understand.
07:00Shaken by the power of that massive sect.
07:04It won't see better batting than this anywhere.
07:06Clean as a whistle.
07:07Long hit.
07:08It's right back into the spectators of everything.
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