Summary

  • Australia need 288 to win third Test and series, SA need 10 wickets

  • Rabada has Renshaw caught down leg side and Labschagne lbw in first over

  • Head (14) also caught at fourth slip - Rabada's 350th Test wicket

  • What does history suggest could happen?

  • Third Test, day five, Cape Town

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By Marc Higginson

  1. Aus 31-3

    Here comes the spin of Simon Harmer: towel tucked down the back of his trousers, blond streaks in his fair hair, sunglasses hiding any expression from his eyes. His first ball slams into the front pad but it's outside the line and the appeal is over before it starts.

  2. Aus 30-3

    South Africa are doing most things right this morning. I say most... between overs they're playing M People.

    A couple of singles keep Australia ticking along, albeit at a snail-like pace.

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    To Phil (9.07) I agree with Rabada being underrated but would argue it's more than 'slightly'. His 350 wickets have come in only 75 Tests and at a strike-rate of under 40. The only reason he's not at 500 wickets is because South Africa don't play enough Test cricket.

    Will, London

  4. Aus 28-3

    Cape Town looks a picture; Table Mountain bearing down on Newlands. Such is South Africa's dominance, they too feel overbearing for those of an Australian persuasion.

    Wiaan Mulder, bowling brisk medium pace, has the keeper up, some close catchers in and the Aussies are suffocating. It's a different challenge to the world-class fast bowling provided by Rabada but it's just as effective at the moment. Maiden.

  5. Aus 28-3

    The way this is going, the new batter Josh Inglis will get to watch his beloved Coventry City at 3pm today. Rabada is being clapped to the crease by the crowd and he concedes just a couple of singles in his latest over.

  6. KG Rabada's first four overs this morning. Relentless...

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  7. Aus 26-3

    I agree with that, Phil. He always touches 90mph, rarely errs on line and can move it both ways. A generational talent.

    The imposing Cameron Green gets his first boundary with a punch through the off side off Wiaan Mulder. Between deliveries, Green pauses and exhales. He knows what is riding on this.

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    I feel like Rabada is slightly under-rated in the grand scheme of things. 350 Test wickets at an average of 22 is outrageous. He's one of the greatest bowlers of the modern era.

    Phil, London

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Head c Jansen b Rabada 14 (Aus 22-3)

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    And another. Australia's key man is back in the sheds.

    Rabada probes that off-stump line, Head takes the bait and Marco Jansen gobbles up the catch at fourth slip.

    That's Rabada's 350th Test wicket. Only Dale Steyn has reached the landmark faster for the Proteas.

  10. How's stat?!

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    South Africa to Travis Head so far...

    When it's wide, he scores. When it's straight, less so.

  11. Here's a reminder of what Australia are up against. They've done similar before, mind...

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  12. Aus 17-2

    South Africa are making Australia work for every run. Aiden Markram makes a good stop at backward point, shortly after Head fends another off his moustache. Just two leg-byes in the over.

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

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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

  19. 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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