Australia skipper Pat Cummins takes three wickets as Australia rip through South Africa to help set up a final-day victory push on another rain-interrupted day's play in the Sydney Test.
abc.net.au/news/australia-south-africa-day-four-scg-test-rain-pat-cummins/101834984Australia remains firmly in the hunt for victory in the third Test against South Africa, needing just four wickets to wrap up the tourists' first innings thanks to some exceptional bowling on a cloudy and rain-disrupted fourth day at the SCG.
Pat Cummins declined the option to send Usman Khawaja out for a short spell to get his maiden Test double tonne. It did not take long for the Australians to strike though, and Elgar was again prised out with a bouncer angled into him that he gloved to Carey for 15, giving Hazlewood his first wicket of the series and first since the opening Test of the summer against the West Indies.The Proteas skipper has scored just 46 runs at an average of 9.2 this series, his frequent early failures plunging his team into trouble.
That meant Ashton Agar, playing his first Test since 2017, bowled his first Test overs on Australian soil as second change, working in tandem with Lyon before tea.
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