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“We had the strategy to Hughes,” Arthur said. “We know he scored very much square of the wicket, we know he wasn’t comfortable under the short ball. We knew that going into the Test and we didn’t see too much of it in the first innings but come the second innings he got stuck in and that just confirmed what we already knew about him. We confirmed we were on the right track.”

This is from Cricinfo only days ago.

Today he has scored most of his runs straight down the ground eaerly, or on the onside.

He really hasn’t been tested with the short ball.

The pitch might be flat, but South Africa have lerant that Hughes can score, pretty much everywhere, and none of their bowlers put in the hostile arm pit spell that the South Africans needed.

Maybe that was Morkel’s job.