Match Details
The day started with Cameron Green and Travis Head at either end of the turf and the South African bowlers hurried them as the game progressed. The home side ticked the scorecard around for a while but Marco Jansen opened the wickets column for the day after removing Cameron Green. Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi joined hands with him and Travis Head, Mitch Starc, Nathan Lyon,etc fell. Alex Carey was the last stone unturned on 22.
Arriving for the third innings of the match, South Africa lost two of their wickets in the first session. They were 3-2 at the end of the initial session with Dean Elgar and Rassie van der Dussen gone.
Temba Bavuma and Sarel Erwee walked out to bat in the second session and the latter was taken aback by Pat Cummins.
Temba Bavuma and Khaya Zondo glued 42 runs together and shepherded around for quite a while. They were safely negotiating the pacers and therefore Nathan Lyon was introduced and the job was done after he trapped the white ball skipper of South Africa leg before wicket.
Scott Boland followed up with two wickets in an over, removing Kyle Verreynne and Marco Jansen for silver ducks.
Starc and Cummins bowled in tandem from the Vulture street end and the Stanley Street end and removed the tail in a haste until the last wicket. Zondo started playing an aggressive brand of cricket and notched up 36 runs to his name. Ngidi played some lavish shots and glued 30 runs partnership for the last wicket to end the tally at 99.
Pat Cummins was the pick of the bowlers with a fifer to his name. Mitch Starc and Scott Boland bagged two each with Nathan Lyon the solitary wicket of Bavuma.
The target for the home side was 34 runs and they lost 4 wickets while trying to chase it down. It was a fiery Kagiso Rabada versus the whole Australian line-up. Anrich Nortje helped Rabada in frightening the Aussie batters with his pace and bounce. Usman Khawaja frayed one to Keshav Maharaj at gully and was the first one to go dismissed. With 19 runs coming in extras, Australia managed to chase it down seeing Marnus Labuschagne strangled at 5* and Cameron Green yet to open his account.