With Australia already sitting pretty in the Boxing Day Test, wicketkeeper Alex Carey bats South Africa completely out of the match on day three at the MCG.
Cummins bowled in concert with regular opener Mitchell Starc, who regularly tipped the speed gun above 140 kilometres per hour despite sporting a blackened nail on the middle finger of his left bowling hand.
Carey was also supported by an injured teammate, Green, who scored an anchoring 51 off 171 with a broken right index finger as his wicketkeeper powered to three figures for the first time in his 14-Test career. Nortje was unable to complete his hat-trick, but Kagiso Rabada got into the action four balls later when he found the edge of Cummins's bat, a not-out on-field decision overturned on review thanks to the thinnest of edges picked up on snicko.
Green received a thorough examination of his fractured finger and was rapped right on it by Marco Jansen as a matter of course, drawing more blood from the Australian all-rounder's battered digit early on.
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