Cricket: Donald has Australia on the rack
Australia 227 & 96-4 South Africa 384
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Your support makes all the difference.A fiery spell of fast bowling by Allan Donald put South Africa in control of the third and final Test at Centurion Park yesterday.
Donald produced his fastest spell of the series, firing out Mark Taylor and Matthew Elliott in Australia's second innings, which stood at 96 for 4 at the close, still 61 runs short of making South Africa bat again.
Donald, who ended the day with 2 for 25 in 10 overs, repeatedly hit Steve Waugh with a barrage of short-pitched deliveries and the batsman required medical attention. He remains unbeaten on 24 after almost two hours at the crease.
Australia began their second innings half an hour before tea and lost Matthew Hayden for nought, adjudged leg before.
Mark Taylor's slump extended to 20 consecutive innings without a Test fifty. When he was on five he edged Donald to Dave Richardson behind the stumps. That left Australia 10-2 at tea and they lost Elliott soon after, an inside edge uprooting his middle stump.
Steve Waugh put on 66 for the fourth wicket with his brother, Mark, before the younger Waugh dragged a wide delivery from the off-spinner Pat Symcox on to his stumps.
In establishing a lead of 157, Hansie Cronje turned what looked like a precarious situation into a possible match-winning one as he anchored South Africa's lower order, despite Glenn McGrath's performance of 6 for 86.
He claimed his first three wickets before lunch in the space of 28 balls, including Adam Bacher for 96. Bacher added just two runs in 84 minutes balls before McGrath trapped him leg before.
South Africa lost four wickets for seven runs before their captain shared vital partnerships of 68 runs for the eighth wicket in less than an hour with Lance Klusener and an equally rapid 37 for the ninth wicket with Donald.
Cronje, unbeaten on 22 at the lunch break, cut loose soon after, hitting two sixes and nine boundaries. He hooked Jason Gillespie over square leg for his first six and later hit McGrath inside-out over cover point.
Shane Warne went wicketless for the first time since the third Test against Sri Lanka in January 1996, a spell of 15 completed innings.
Third day; South Africa won toss
AUSTRALIA -First innings 227 (S R Waugh 67; B Schultz 4-52).
SOUTH AFRICA - First innings
(Overnight 240 for 3)
A M Bacher lbw b McGrath 96
P L Symcox c Blewett b Gillespie 16
J H Kallis c S.Waugh b McGrath 2
*W J Cronje not out 79
D J Richardson b McGrath 0
L Klusener b Gillespie 30
A A Donald c Healy b Gillespie 8
B Schultz c Healy b McGrath 2
Extras (b11 lb16 w1 nb5) 33
Total (133.4 overs) 384
Fall (cont): 4-252 5-255 6-262 7-262 8-330 9-367.
Bowling: McGrath 40.4-15-86-6; Gillespie 31-13-75-3 (w1); Blewett 5-0- 19-0 (nb1); Warne 36-11-89-0 (nb4); Bevan 15-3-54-0; M E Waugh 7-1-34- 1.
AUSTRALIA -Second innings
* M A Taylor c Richardson b Donald 5
M L Hayden lbw Schultz 0
M T G Elliott b Donald 12
M E Waugh b Symcox 42
S R Waugh not out 24
G S Blewett not out 0
Extras (lb1 w3 nb9) 13
Total (for 4, 37 overs) 96
Fall: 1-5 2-10 3-28 4-94.
To bat: M G Bevan, I A Healy, S K Warne, J N Gillespie, G D McGrath.
Bowling: Donald 10-1-25-2 (w3); Schultz 9-2-23-1 (nb5); Klusener 9-1- 22-0 (nb3); Symcox 4-1-12-1; Kallis 5-1-13-0 (nb1).
Umpires: C J Mitchley and M J Kitchen (Eng).
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