Australia celebrate as Pollock is out

Pollock said that during the lunch break on Monday he advised spinner Claude Henderson to bowl around the wicket.

But he was told by the bowler that his captain wanted him to bowl over the wicket into the rough caused by bowlers' footmarks.

Pollock said there were angry words during the tea break. "A hard word was needed to try and save this game," he said.

Shaun Pollock kept Nantie Hayward out of the attack for three hours while Australia's Matthew Hayden and Mark Waugh were well putting on 181 runs for the third wicket.

He called on Henderson to bowl the first over after lunch when Australia were 102 for two and by the time Hayward came on to bowl, Australia were cruising along at 200 for two.

"From South Africa's point of view they must put up a reasonable performance to have the confidence for the remainder of the Tests against Australia."

Shaun Pollock later played down any cricketing family rift.

"There are no worries with my uncle I can assure you," said Pollock after the Test.

"Obviously, we discussed certain things, the way the game was going, but we didn't discuss the negative or positive captaincy, not that I can remember anyway."

He did, however, admit that his team had been comprehensively outplayed.

"I think we've got to look for as many positives as we can find, but overall our performance was pretty average," said Pollock.

"On the first day we had some catches dropped, missed some opportunities, and you just can't do that against a top side like Australia.

"But all the guys tried as hard as they can and we were just outplayed by the better side.

"We'll have to regroup in the practice match we've got before the next Test and make sure we put in a better effort in that game."