SAfrica beat Australia by 80 runs to level series

Jacques Kallis and Morne Morkel stood out as South Africa scored a convincing 80-run win in the second one-day international against Australia at St Georges Park on Sunday.The win levelled the three-match series at one-all.Kallis hit 76 in a South African total of 303 for six and Morkel bowled with pace and accuracy to take four for 22 as Australia were bowled out for 223 in reply.Kallis became the third batsman, after Indias Sachin Tendulkar and Australias Ricky Ponting, to reach fifty on 100 occasions in one-day internationals.South Africa made a bad start when captain Hashim Amla was out off the first ball of the match, pushing a simple catch back to opening bowler Doug Bollinger.But Kallis and Graeme Smith (57) put their side on top with a second wicket stand of 142.Smith and Kallis were out in quick succession but left-handers JP Duminy (56) and David Miller (59) regained the initiative for South Africa with a fifth wicket partnership of 107.Australias run chase got off to a bad start when Ponting and Michael Clarke were out cheaply but David Warner and Michael Hussey gave the tourists some hope with a third wicket stand of 71.Opener Warner made a career-best 74, surviving a straightforward chance to Amla at mid-on when he was on 26, but after a rapid start he was pegged back by the South African bowlers and needed 97 balls to make his runs.Hussey survived two stumping chances to Mark Boucher off Johan Botha before he was run out for 37 off 62 balls.