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A total of 23 wickets fell after Australia resumed its first innings this morning on 214-8 at Newlands. Australia advanced to 284, then South Africa made 96 before the visitors were dismissed in only 18 overs.
Australia’s lowest-ever Test score was 36 against England in 1902. It has also previously scored 42 and 44, both back in the 19th century.
Australia was 21-9 today when Peter Siddle and Nathan Lyon came together, five runs adrift of the sport’s lowest Test score set in 1955 by New Zealand against England.
Siddle made 12 not out and Lyon 14, the only two batsmen in the team to reach double-figures in the second innings. It was Lyon’s highest score in his four-Test career.
Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel had ripped through Australia’s batting lineup after Dale Steyn, ranked as the No. 1 Test bowler by the International Cricket Council, made a breakthrough by trapping opener Shane Watson leg before wicket.
Philander, on his debut, claimed 5-15 to give him match figures of 8-78. Morkel took 3-9 in the innings, while Steyn finished with 2-23 as he returned to dismiss Lyon as AB de Villiers made a diving catch.
South Africa lost only one wicket in its second innings before the close and needs another 155 runs to win. Hashim Amla was dropped in the slips by Mike Hussey on the final ball of the day off the bowling of Ryan Harris.
Amla will resume tomorrow on 29, with Graeme Smith on 36. Jacques Rudolph edged a delivery from Siddle to wicketkeeper Brad Haddin for 14.
Earlier, Australia captain Michael Clarke scored 151 in his team’s first innings 284. Smith, his counterpart, then top- scored for the Proteas with 37, Rudolph making 18.
Watson was the pick of Australia’s bowlers with 5-17 and Harris took 4-33. The other wicket came from a run out.
Australia hasn’t lost a Test series in South Africa since the Proteas were re-admitted to international cricket in 1991. A 1-1 draw in 1994 was followed by four series victories.
This series incorporates two Tests, with the second match in Johannesburg from Nov. 17 to 21.
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