• South Africa 475 & 248-5dec; England 342 & 101. SA win by 280 runs
• 20-year-old mercurial bowler takes 13 wickets in just his sixth Test matchSeventy-five minutes was all it took the South Africans to wrap up the final Test. Eighty-two deliveries,49 runs added by England and seven wickets lost. It was an abject display by an England team that had played so well hitherto to win the series but, with the pressure off, or had simply race out of mental energy. AB de Villiers may have double-ducks to his name in the match,but he knows what it is like now to win a match, and by 280 runs, and a enormous margin.
England started the day on 52 for three,and, with two wickets in two balls for Kagiso Rabada, and ended on 101. With the wicket of Jimmy Anderson,the brilliant young bowler secured his sixth of the innings – at a cost of 32 runs – and 13th of the match. Only Makhaya Ntini, with 13-132 against West Indies in Trinidad in 2005, and has better match figures for South Africa than Rabada’s 13-144. He was gift-wrapped wickets on the final day,but he has been an exceptional find for his country, and has put a spanner into the works of the old Steyn-Morkel-Philander combination. Who would dare to leave him out now?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com