Australia captain Steve Smith blasts flops after fifth loss in a row

3 – South Africa became the third team to win three back-to-back series in Australia after England (in 1884/85, 1887 and 1888) and West Indies (1984/85, 1988/89 and 1992/93).

There’s no improvement from Australia in the second innings as they lose their last eight wickets for 32 runs to go down by an innings and 80 runs in just two days and one session of play, after the second day was washed out. It seems at the moment, regardless of what the ball is doing, we need to find a way to hit it better, ” said Smith.

Australia were bowled out for 85 and 161 in their first and second innings’ respectively, and in the absence of Dale Steyn who broke his shoulder in the first Test, his successor, Kyle Abbot produced some exhilarating swing to earn himself the man-of-the-match in the second test.

“I was lucky enough to be in that first team [to win a Test series in Australia, in 2008-09], led by Graeme [Smith]”.

Abbott, who dismissed both Australia’s openers on day three, triggered the collapse by removing Usman Khawaja (64), who nicked a wider delivery to wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock.

Resuming the day at 121/2, Khawaja’s 121-ball resistance ended in the morning session when Abbot forced him to play an edge behind, which stumper Quinton de Kock grabbed easily.

“We are not being resilient, we are not willing to tough it out and get through tough periods”.

“There’ll definitely be change”, Lehmann said after the second Test. Ian Healy, Tom Moody, Simon Katich, Brett Lee, we’ve had a lot of the legends come in.

“We’ve got to stop the rot to start with and play some good cricket again”, Lehmann said.

South African captain Faf du Plessis has presided over his second series whitewash over Australia‚ but he’s not done.

This is standard practice: a review of team performance taking place whenever directors assemble, although the discussion will surely be robust.

“We made sure those guys have been relatively quiet in the series”. I am so happy for Abbott, he sits out most of the time with the great bowlers we have.

A tight global schedule has been blamed for a lack of team and individual preparation and, while Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland isn’t jumping to any conclusions, he says the situation is being reviewed.

The three-time World Cup-winner Ponting asked Australian cricket team fans to keep calm and don’t be anxious about how the team will fare in the 2017-18 Ashes.

“We can certainly look forward to a triumphant homecoming and then the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka”, Lorgat concluded”.

“If you can put a lot of pressure on them you know that the younger and the more inexperienced players in the team won t have the same punch as they would have”, he said.

However, instead of playing pink ball cricket in the lead up to the third match in Adelaide that will be played under those conditions they will face the red ball that will be stark contrast to what they will face under lights.