Opening up ... Alviro Petersen pulled out a reverse sweep against Nathan Lyon. Source: Dave Hunt / AAP
Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis became South Africa's greatest scoring partnership as the Proteas seized control on day one of the first Brisbane Test on Friday.
The pair ended the day having made an unbeaten century stand and when bad light stopped play eight overs before scheduled stumps, South Africa were 255 for two with Amla unbeaten on 90 and Kallis providing solid support on 84.
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Kallis previously held his country's aggregate record with current coach Gary Kirsten at 3592 runs in partnerships throughout 64 Tests, and has now surpassed that with Amla following their 136-run partnership for the third wicket.
At day's end, the pair had accumulated 3607 runs together in their 58th Test while Amla, the number one-ranked Test batsman, passed 5000 Test runs.
"We wanted to really put our peg in the ground and I think we did that really well,'' opening batsman Alviro Petersen said.
"Two wickets down, we're in a comfortable position but tomorrow's going to be really important, to back that up and make sure today's work doesn't go to waste.''
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Michael Clarke used six bowlers - even the modest medium pace of debutant Rob Quiney - in a bid to winkle a breakthrough.
"You can make excuses, but we probably lacked a bit of penetration and a bit of consistency and our maiden count was the big thing,'' paceman James Pattinson said.
"When it's not playing as much as you would like, you probably want to dry up the runs a bit and we probably didn't do that.''
Australia earlier left out paceman Mitchell Starc and went with the spin of Nathan Lyon while the Proteas gave Rory Kleinveldt his Test debut in a four-strong pace attack.
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