Summary

  • Australia crumble to 111 all out on final day in pursuit of 288 - report

  • Spinner Harmer takes 6-16, Rabada 3-39

  • South Africa win series 2-1 and regain top spot in ICC rankings

  • Third Test, day five, Cape Town

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By Marc Higginson

  1. Graeme Smith
    Former South Africa captain on Sky Sports

    Rabada looks a different man from the first innings when he wasn't well.

  2. Aus 15-2

    KG. Stop it!

    Rabada bowls a beauty which shapes away from Travis Head and leaves the left-hander swinging his bat like a rusty gate. The Rolls Royce is locked in, says Graeme Smith.

    Head just smiles then legs it to the other end the moment he gets the chance to nick a single. Though it does mean he keeps the strike to Marco Jansen.

  3. Aus 14-2

    Jansen continues with the shorter stuff to Green but the Australian number four is more secure after that scare earlier in the over. Maiden.

  4. Aus 14-2

    Cameron Green should put the lottery on. Marco Jansen gets one to rear up mamba-like and a leaden-footed Green fends it off and the ball almost drops on to his own stumps.

  5. Aus 14-2

    Rabada is running in hard here, getting nice shape and testing the technique of the batters. Cameron Green is the new batter and he is off the mark with a single through point.

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    Feel for Labuschange here - seems fidgety and uncertain, similar to how Pope was in the Ashes before he was dropped. Needs taking out of the spotlight to work on his technique and approach.

    J, London

  7. Aus 13-2

    Target 288

    What I enjoyed most about that opening over - apart from Marnus being pinned lbw - was how Graeme Smith, one of the best captains in Test history, was wondering out loud why Rabada was bowling round the wicket to Renshaw. Cricket never follows a logical pattern.

    Travis Head gets off the mark with a beautiful driven four before slashing at the final ball of Marco Jansen's over to edge four more over gully's head.

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    Labuschagne lbw b Rabada 4 (Aus 5-2)

    Cape Town is rocking now. Marnus Labuschagne, who has got under the skin of the South Africans in this series, has to walk. He didn't last long and the four he did get was fourtunate. KG has Australia 5-2.

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    Marnus might be gone here. He shoulders arms to one which Rabada swings back into his pads. Plumb... the finger is up... he reviews.

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    Head might be the key here. If he gets going in the first 10 overs, the total looks very different.

    Liz, London

  12. Aus 5-1

    Bad news for those wanting a pair for Marmite Marnus - he gets a fortunate boundary with a squirt off the outside edge and through the gully region.

  13. Graeme Smith
    Former South Africa captain on Sky Sports

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    It is one of the worst ways to get out. South Africa have their reward but not how they would have planned it.

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    Renshaw c Rickelton b Rabada 0 (Aus 1-1)

    Lift-off.

    Kagiso Rabada goes round the wicket to the left-handed opening pair and gets instant reward when Matthew Renshaw, the series' top scorer, feathers a catch to the keeper down the leg side.

    Here comes Marnus Labuschagne on a pair...

  15. Here we go then. Australia's openers, Travis Head and Matt Renshaw, walk to the middle. Cape Town looks resplendent. Play!

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    I felt throughout the whole match that SA's decision not to pick a second spinner may cost them. Huge pressure on Simon Harmer to win them the game today.

    Chen, London

  17. How's stat?!

    Want another quirky stat? Both teams have been scoring at 3.2 runs per over in this series. Literally neck and neck.

    What is 3.2 x 90 (overs)?

    288 (Australia's target today!).

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    The claim that this is the most ebb-and-flow series session-by-session in history underscores just how unique these three Tests have been. Momentum has swung violently within individual sessions more often than in any previous short series, turning every day into high drama and making the Newlands decider utterly compelling.

    Asif Sultan

  19. And don't expect this to be one-way traffic. This Test has had more momentum swings than I can count.

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  20. The maths are simple - Australia need 288 runs. South Africa require 10 wickets.

    If neither is achieved, the series is drawn 1-1 and we'll forever lament this isn't a five-match series.

    My colleague Matthew Henry has written an excellent explainer about what could unfold.

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