Australia needs run record to beat S

At lunch the visitors were 508 for seven in their second innings, an overall lead of 506 with three wickets in hand, having looked out of the match on the second day.

“To be able to do it without Dale, it’s going to be hard work but we definitely believe we have the armory to still do it”.

South Africa were four down at stumps on day four of that contest and also given little hope of stonewalling through three sessions.

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The hosts squandered a 158-run opening stand between David Warner and Shaun Marsh and endured a dramatic collapse of 10-86 to finish with only a two-run first innings lead.

But the remaining Proteas bowlers ripped out the hosts for 244 before tea before Dean Elgar (46 not out) and JP Duminy (36 not out) combined for an unbroken 59-run stand to steady the innings after two early wickets in the final session. They are part of a homeless population that has grown dramatically since the county embraced the pot industry.

Duminy, who has been inconsistent through his career, has thumped three of his five Test centuries against the Australians, and relished the opportunity leap into the crucial No.4 spot in the absence of injured skipper, AB de Villiers.

And the duo guided South Africa to a position of control by frustrating the Australia attack with a stand of 250.

“Getting off that pair I’ve been on for four years on this ground – it was a good thing to have”, he said.

South Africa’s second-highest Test partnership against Australia made a mockery of the flurry of wickets on Friday, when Smith was one of four Australian batsmen to be dismissed for ducks.

Australia’s 177-run loss at the WACA is, out of all of their recent abominations, the worst of the lot.

Dogged and determined where Duminy was fluent, the 29-year-old reached his fifth test century half an hour before tea after a prolonged spell in the “nervous nineties”.

Australia’s pace trio of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Peter Siddle bowled reasonably well but without success and captain Steve Smith decided against bringing spinner Nathan Lyon into the fray. They have been set a target of 539 by South Africa this time.

Four balls later they were two down for 52 as Marsh was taken by Faf du Plessis in the slips off the bowling of Rabada, the delivery rearing up at the opener.

But Australia will take some heart from the 2008 Test between the two sides, when South Africa chased down 414 on the final day easily.

Marsh departed four balls later for 15, catching an edge to a Rabada delivery and Usman Khawaja nearly followed in the next over, surviving on a DRS review after being adjudged caught behind.