Aussie pacers rattle South Africa

NEW DELHI: Peter Siddle and Mitchell Johnson took five wickets between them to reduce South Africa to 198/7 in their first innings on the second day of the second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.
Emerging as the star of the Australian bowling, Siddle took three wickets including that of South African captain Graeme Smith for 62.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting gave Siddle the new ball ahead of Johnson and he lived upto the expectations by shattering the stumps of Neil McKenzie for a duck in his first over.
Johnson had Hashim Amla (19) caught by Andrew Symonds before off-spinner Nathan Hauritz had Jacques Kallis (26) caught behind by Brad Haddin.
Siddle then returned in the attack to have Smith caught behind by Haddin and two overs later, clean bowled Perth Test centurion AB de Villiers for 7 to put the Proteas at 132/5.
Hauritz took his second wicket when he had Mark Boucher (3) caught by Michael Hussey and then Johnson clean bowled Morne Morkel (21) to reduce South Africa to 184/7 as Australia took the honours on day two.
Earlier, Australia resumed their first innings at the overnight score of 280/6. Michael Clarke remained not out on 88 as Dale Steyn, the leading wicket-taker of 2008, registered his tenth five-wicket haul in Test cricket to bowl out Australia for 394.