MacGill takes 50 at the SCG

Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince established a new record for the fourth wicket for South Africa against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground

Kanishkaa Balachandran

03-Jan-2006

A unique half-century for Stuart MacGill © Getty Images

Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince set a new South African record for the fourth-wicket partnership against Australia when they put on 219 at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). They bettered the previous record of 206 between Arthur Nourse and Charlie Frank at Johannesburg in 1921-22. Kallis and Prince made 111 and 119 respectively. Coincidentally, Nourse also finished with 111, while Frank scored 152. Click here for the full list of record partnerships for each wicket for South Africa against Australia.

When Stuart MacGill took the wicket of Mark Boucher in the first innings, he became only the second bowler after Shane Warne to take 50 wickets at the SCG. Warne leads the pack with 60* wickets from 12 games. MacGill currently has 50* wickets from just eight Tests at the venue, since his spectacular maiden Test in 1998-99 against England bagging 12 wickets. His wickets have come at an average of just over 23 runs with five five-wicket hauls. MacGill also happens to share his own initials with the ground: SCG.
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Ricky Ponting is now the latest addition to the 8000-run club in Tests. He is the fourth Australian and 16th batsman to aggregate over 8000 runs in Tests. He is incidentally the second batsman to cross the milestone since December, Rahul Dravid being the first. For Ponting's career milestones to date, click here

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