Rabada restores South African dominance in second Test

Kagiso Rabada struck in a matter of seconds before the close restore South Africa's order on the third day of the second Test against Australia at St George's Park on Sunday. 

Australia were 180 for five in their second innings at the adjacent, a thin lead of 41 continues running with five wickets remaining. 

An awesome century by AB de Villiers enabled South Africa to take a first innings lead of 139 and Australia lost four wickets beforehand they wiped out the lack. 

In any case, Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Marsh shared a doing combating fifth wicket association of 87 and almost winning concerning taking their gathering through to the fourth day with no not as much as a trace of a remark forward to. 

By then Rabada struck for the third time in the innings. Playing around the wicket he got Khawaja before his stumps with a full movement after the left-hander made 75 off 136 balls. 

Khawaja and Marsh (39 not out) got together when Australia were 86 for four however batted for more than two hours on a pitch which was, as it were, tranquil. 

Instead of the essential innings, there was no enunciated rearrange swing for the bowlers. 

De Villiers made a splendid 126 not out and had awesome assistance from the tail as South Africa scored wholeheartedly before they were immovable for 382 in a split second before the booked supper break. 

South Africa by then started well with the ball. 

Fast bowler Rabada, under peril of a suspension which could block him of the straggling leftovers of the four-Test course of action, made a key accomplishment when he played David Warner for 13 in the midst of a debilitating opening spell in which his speediest movement was facilitated at 151 kmh. 

Cameron Bancroft was thumped down a few sticks off an inside edge by Lungi Ngidi for 24 and captain Steve Smith was gotten behind off left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj in a matter of seconds before tea for 11. 

It was the third time in four innings that Smith, the fundamental Test batsman on the planet, had tumbled to left-arm turn - twice to Maharaj and once to part-clock Dean Elgar. 

Rabada struck again when he had Shaun Marsh got behind for one with the second ball after tea yet the South Africans expected to work, having unsuccessful leg before wicket reviews against both batsmen, before Rabada's late strike. 

Earlier, Vernon Philander (36) and Maharaj (30) helped De Villiers incorporate 84 for the eighth wicket and 58 for the ninth wicket as South Africa instructed a brilliant morning. 

Australia's brisk bowlers, who had a generous workload on the prior day, withered under a snare in which De Villiers played strokes that were on occasion staggering. 

He hit 20 fours and a six of each a 146-ball innings. It was his 22nd Test century and his sixth against Australia. 

Philander played a solid innings, while Maharaj pounded two sixes and three fours off 24 balls. He appeared to have been gotten when he hit his underlying six off Nathan Lyon yet Khawaja wandered over the point of confinement before flinging the ball back infield to complete the catch. 

South Africa included 119 continues running off 23.4 overs already a prompt hit from Smith in the spreads ran out last man Ngidi at the bowler's end as the batsmen endeavored a hazardous second hurried to keep De Villiers on strike.