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Live cricket scores: Australia face deciding match against South Africa in Cape Town

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Aaron KirbyThe West Australian
VideoAustralia has made significant selection changes for the decisive third Test against South Africa in Cape Town.

Australia return to Cape Town for Test cricket for the first time since Sandpapergate and their series against South Africa is on the line after a big defeat in Gqeberha.

Nic Maddinson has been sent home after being dropped but the Australians will wait until the last minute to name a team.

Meanwhile, South Africa will be without Anrich Nortje.

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Grubber!

Connolly is back on and gets a ball to basically roll along the ground!

It landed in a foot mark well wide of the stumps and rolls all the way to the fence with Carey no chance of getting down to it.

SA 6-291

Get them off!

Jansen is making mince meat of the Aussie quicks and they need a spell.

Hazlewood looks awful, Cummins looks awful.

Starc is the only one who has generated anything.

Hazlewood or Cummins should have been rested for Boland.

SA 6-285

Drinks

This is a vastly improved Ryan Rickleton.

As an opener, he wanted to dominate the bowling, and he did that at Newlands against Pakistan last year when he made his career-high 259.

But in Durban, it saw him look a walking wicket.

In this innings, and his one in the middle-order in Gqeberha, he has given himself time and let the bowling come to him.

His strike rate is down but he and Jansen are getting back on top as the Aussie quicks continue to battle to find wickets.

Cummins has now gone 296 balls without a scalp, the longest drought of his career.

SA 6-273

Slower balls

Cummins has now thrown in a couple of slower ball variations and it looks a good move against Jansen.

He times pace bowling very well.

SA 6-260

Bad news

They’ve had to turn the lights on with some dark clouds coming over the mountain.

Hopefully it passes because we still have 90 minutes of cricket left in the day.

SA 6-251

Big shout!

Lyon raps Rickleton on the pads and puts in a big appeal.

Cummins sends it to the third umpire after the on-field umpire said not out.

There were two noises and this time there is bat before the pad.

SA 6-250

Drawing blood

Starc has crushed one of Rickleton’s fingers with a nasty bouncer and it has drawn blood.

The former opener took his glove off and it has bruised up badly and there is blood oozing from the knuckle.

He will be lucky if there’s no break but he is the keeper so they might have something to worry about here.

SA 6-244

Jansen must go

The big all-rounder has crashed two glorious back-foot drives for four.

He can rescue 300 from this innings if Australia are not careful.

Lyon is the guys here.

SA 6-243

Turtles

The South Africans sense danger and Rickleton and Jansen are trying to duck into their shells for a minute.

Some dark clouds have come over but the pitch is still doing nothing and the ball is 59 overs old.

They are just throwing wickets away.

SA 6-233

Cummins smells blood

The skipper has called himself into the attack to try and break the Proteas here.

Remember, they were 1-203! They have lost 5-29.

SA 6-232

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