1st Test: South Africa’s Duminy and Elgar browbeat Australia
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PERTH: Centuries by Dean Elgar and JP Duminy guided South Africa into a autocratic position on a third day of a opening Test opposite Australia in Perth Saturday.
At stumps on a third day a visitors were 390 for 6 in their second innings, an altogether lead of 388 with 4 wickets in palm nonetheless a harmed Dale Steyn is not approaching to bat.
Vernon Philander was on 23 and a resigned Quinton de Kock was 16, a latter carrying been given a life on one when Adam Voges grassed a tough possibility from a bowling of Mitchell Starc.
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Duminy, who finished 141, pronounced he and Elgar primarily set themselves to simply occupy time during a double and combined that a visitors would again demeanour to keep Australia in a margin for as prolonged as probable on day four.
He suggested an Australian run follow would be formidable by a fact a representation was starting to turn some-more formidable to bat on.
“There is still a lot of work to be finished in this Test compare and we won’t have Dale Steyn in a fourth innings,” he said.
“The representation deterioration, a cracks have really non-stop adult a bit some-more and can play in favour.
“We have to put a round in a right areas, though we saw in a final hour how many a round did.”
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Australian captain Stephen Smith was confident with a focus of his bowlers on day three, though conceded his side was profitable for a batting frailties 24 hours earlier.
However, he believed his side could follow down a vast total.
“We let ourselves down yesterday, to get usually dual runs in front was not good enough, a batters didn’t do a job,” he said.
“But there is no reason because we can’t follow a sum down.
“I trust anything’s chaseable.”
The day belonged to Duminy and Elgar, who came together when a Proteas mislaid dual early second innings wickets late on a second day.
The span put on 250 for a third wicket as they detered a Australian conflict for many of a day.
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Both batsmen finished their Test debuts during a WACA Ground and a span any notched their fifth Test centuries between lunch and tea.
Duminy eventually fell to finish a partnership, chasing a far-reaching round from Peter Siddle (2-47) and removing a excellent edge, being given out on a preference examination after referee Aleem Dar had incited down a Australian appeal.
The left-hander had faced 225 balls, conflict 20 fours and one six.
Elgar’s 127 buried a memories of his fear Test entrance in Perth, when he faced only 22 balls and was discharged for a span on entrance in 2012.
The opener faced 316 balls and batted for 471 minutes, eventually descending to a sleepy try to expostulate opposite Josh Hazlewood (2-97), rupturing a locate to Starc in gully.
Duminy and Elgar had few problems with an Australian conflict that seemed to shrivel in a heat, with initial innings destroyer Starc struggling with his control and looking small like a actor who claimed 4 wickets on a opening day.
Starc, in his initial Test given a nasty leg damage and entrance off a singular preparation, bowled a horde of careless deliveries and grew increasingly undone as a day wore on.
His woes were compounded when he misjudged a high round during mid-on when Elgar was 81 and unsuccessful to get a palm to a formidable chance.
The South Africans will be one bowler down in a Australian second innings, with champion discerning Steyn approaching to be out for during slightest 6 months due to a shoulder problem that is expected to need surgery.
Australia will have to furnish a biggest ever fourth innings run follow during a belligerent to win a match, though a home group will take heart from a 2008 Test between a dual sides, when South Africa chased down 414 on a final day.
That South Africa could be in such a clever position was conspicuous given they seemed to be all though out of a compare a day earlier.
After winning a toss and being discharged for 242, a South Africans seemed certain to be confronting a large initial innings necessity when Australia cruised to 158 for nothing before lunch on day two, though a home side afterwards collapsed in overwhelming conform to make only 244 as a compare incited on a head.
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