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4:38pm Three slips and a gully as Starc prepares to run in at Elgar...

4:28pm South Africa look happy as Kagiso Rabada leads them off the pitch. They would've taken 243 at the start of the day, but is it a bit too much after reducing Australia to 182 for 8? Frustrating, certainly, but they won't have too many complaints. A world-class spell from Vernon Philander kept South Africa in the game all morning, before a world-class spell from Rabada scythed through the visitors' line-up. He took his eighth five-wicket haul in 28 Tests. Some player. Stick around for the response, we should have close to an hour of cricket left. The heavy roller has been used.

71.3
W
Ngidi to Paine, OUT, breaches the defence. That's the end of Tim Paine's resistance. Regulation length ball, pitching outside off and headed for the top of off. Paine looks to block on the front foot but he's left the gate open

TD Paine b Ngidi 36 (99m 68b 5x4 0x6) SR: 52.94

71.2
0
Ngidi to Paine, no run, good length on off stump, driven on the up to mid-off
71.1
0
Ngidi to Paine, no run, short of a length in the corridor, steered to third man off the back foot

END OF OVER:
71 | 3 Runs | AUS: 243/9

  • Tim Paine36 (65b)
  • Josh Hazlewood10 (10b)
  • Keshav Maharaj18-1-51-0
  • Lungi Ngidi13-3-51-2
70.6
1
Maharaj to Paine, 1 run, back of a length outside off, late cut to short third man's left. Can't get it past him but they get the single

AUS tour of SA 2017-18 News

Rabada equals Waqar

4

No. of 10-wkt hauls for Rabada in Tests, at age of 22 - the joint-most for any bowler before turning 23. Waqar Younis had also picked 4 10-fors before ageing 23.

AB triumphs

197*

Runs scored by AB de Villiers in this series, in 3 innings, without getting out to any bowler. He remained not out in first inns of both the Tests while in the second inns of last Test he was run out.

Elgar's fruitful venue

5

No. of 50+ scores for Dean Elgar in 8 Test inns at Port Elizabeth, including his fifty in this game. He has scored over 500 runs at the venue with two centuries and two other fifties.

Rabada's roar

18

No. of balls of a span in which Rabada took five wickets and that induced Australia's collapse.