2018 Australia Tour of South Africa - Second Test South Africa Vs Australia @ Port Elizabeth March 09-13,2018

4-Match Test Series Results

First Test  @ Durban Monday March 01- 05,2018
Scorecard
Australia           351 and 227
South Africa     162 and  298(Target(417 Runs)
Match Result    Australia won by 118 Runs
MOM                 Mitchell Starc(Australia)for his 5/34(10.4 Overs and 4/75(18 Overs)
Series Result - Australia lead te 4-Match Test Series 1-0

Second Test  @ Port Elizabeth March 09-12,2018
Scorecard
Australia                243 and 239
South Africa          382 and 102/4(Target 101 Runs)
Match Result         South Africa won by 6 wickets
MOM                     Kagiso Rabada(South Africa) for his 5/96(21 Overs) and 6/54(22 Overs)
Series Result          4-Match Test Series level at 1-1

Day One Friday March 09,2018

Australia won the toss and chose to bat first

Australia were bundled out for 243/10 in 71.3 Overs

South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada ripped the heart out of Australia's batting when he took four wickets in seven balls  on Friday.

 Rabada added a fifth wicket in the same spell as Australia were bowled out for 243 after winning the toss and batting on a green-tinged pitch on an overcast day at St George's Park

Rabada finished with 5/96(21 Overs)

Australian opening batsmen Cameron Bancroft and David Warner survived a testing first hour, scoring only 23 runs in 14 overs, then seemed to have taken control as they added 75 runs in the next hour, only for Bancroft to be out for 38 off the last ball before lunch.

Two more wickets fell quickly after the interval, including that of Warner for 63, made off 100 balls with nine fours.

Steve Smith and Shaun Marsh steadied the innings with a patient fourth wicket stand of 44 before Rabada started his devastation.

Rabada produced a fast delivery angled in to the stumps to strike Smith on the back pad. Smith failed in a review of umpire Kumar Dharmasena's decision.

In Rabada's next over Shaun Marsh was beaten by a ball which swung into his pads and was also leg before. Mitchell Marsh edged a four but then was caught behind off an inside edge.

Australia were 182 for eight when Starc was out but wicketkeeper Tim Paine batted well with the last two batsmen, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood as the last two wickets added 61 runs. Paine was last man out for 36.

At close of play,South Africa were 39/1 with Dean Elgar 11* and Kagiso Rabada 17*at the crease

Australia claimed the wicket of first Test centurion Aiden Markram, who was leg before wicket to Pat Cummins for 11.

South Africa beat Australia by 6 wickets to level series 1-1

AB  de Villiers, whose unbeaten 126 (22nd Test Ton)in the first innings was not only a game-changer but one of the most impressive knocks in recent history

Kagiso Rabada finished with match figures of 11 for 150, and he became just the third South African to achieve a ten-wicket Test haul on at least four occasions, the others are Dale Steyn, whose five ten-wicket hauls have come in 86 Tests, and Makhaya Ntini, whose 101-Test career brought four ten-fors. Rabada has four in just his 28th Test

Scorecard
Australia                243 and 239
South Africa          382 and 102/4(Target 101 Runs)
Match Result         South Africa won by 6 wickets
MOM                     Kagiso Rabada(South Africa) for his 5/96(21 Overs) and 6/54(22 Overs)
Series Result          4-Match Test Series level at 1-1