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In reply to the hosts' challenging first-innings total of 445, the tourists will enter day three on 125 for one with Hashim Amla (30) and Jacques Kallis (36) to resume on a pitch showing signs of wear and tear.

Smith retired hurt on 30 after being struck on the left hand by a Mitchell Johnson delivery that reared nastily off a good length.

Neil McKenzie, who laboured for nearly two hours, was the only wicket to fall in the South African innings, trapped lbw by Peter Siddle.

Clarke's ton - his first Test century on the SCG - underpinned Australia's large first innings total before a crowd of 30, 293.

His 142-run partnership with Johnson (64) swung the game Australia's way.

Resuming on 77, Clarke showed his intent from the opening ball, cracking Makhaya Ntini through the covers for four.

Johnson, who was put down by Kallis on 18, clubbed 11 boundaries en route to his best score at Test level before being snapped up at first slip by Smith off Dale Steyn, who finished with figures of three for 95.

Siddle (23) and Nathan Hauritz (41) kept the momentum going, the former cracking seven fours in a rousing knock before his appreciative home crowd.

Hauritz was last man out - caught by Duminy off the bowling of Paul Harris (three for 94) - just before tea.