Australia needed a miracle on day five in Gqeberha, but it wasn’t to be as they were crushed by an innings as South Africa levelled the series 1-1.
Travis Head made a classy century, and Scott Boland put in a marathon effort, but a five-wicket haul from Wiaan Mulder was too much for the tourists to overcome.
Recap the action from our blog.
Goodnight!
That ends our coverage of the second Test from St George’s Park.
We will be back on Tuesday for the all-important decider!
Until then, farewll.
KEEP, BENCH, CUT
Australia tumbled from the highs of victory in Durban to the disgrace of being beaten by an innings in Gqeberha. And now Steve Smith is under another injury cloud.
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Back to earth
Australia will head to Cape Town with their series against South Africa on the line and their batters on notice after a crushing innings and 31-run defeat in Gqeberha.
Now it rains!
The South Africans are out on the ground doing interviews and the rain is returning.
Understatement
Pat Cummins says Australia were “a long way from their best”.
He has backed the selection calls again and puts the performance down to errors.
Cummins also said he was happy with how his side fought on day five and added it is the blue print they need to follow.
Man of the Match
Temba Bavuma is the man of the match for his epic 179 across the first three days.
Horror result
Considering we lost the best part of two days of cricket to rain, this is a horror result for the tourists.
Heading into yesterday, all they needed was a draw to ensure they couldn’t lose the series and they had two innings to ensure it happened.
But a pathetic first innings of 99 has now seen the Proteas level the series 1-1 heading to Cape Town.
All over!
Hazlewood tries to prod at Jansen and the extra bounce catches the edge.
The slips make the catch look easy and South Africa win!
AUS 295 - lose by an innings and 31 runs
Bang
South Africa bring the field up to stop the single and Carey plays a nice lofted drive to the boundary over mid-off.
But it does leave Hazlewood to fend off Jansen.
AUS 9-295 - trail by 31
Oh boy!
Carey went for a desperate single to get on strike for the next over and the throw at the stumps just miss!
Hazlewood would have been out by miles.
AUS 9-291 - trail by 35
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