Dominant SA tighten the screws on New Zealand in the second test at Centurion

29 August 2016 - 18:58 By Telford Vice

Dale Steyn and Kagiso Rabada shared six wickets as SA continued their dominance of the second test against New Zealand at Centurion on Monday. In reply to SA’s first innings declaration of 481/8‚ the visitors were dismissed for 214 shortly before the third day’s scheduled tea interval‚ which was then taken.Steyn claimed 3/66 and Rabada 3/62.SA were 267 runs ahead but captain Faf du Plessis did not enforce the follow-on.Kane Williamson kept New Zealand’s heads above water with a defiant 77 but his only significant support came in stands of 60 with Henry Nicholls and 45 with Neil Wagner.Nicholls spent 67 balls on his 36 and Wagner clipped his 31 off 30 deliveries.Wagner‚ who peppered SA’s batsmen with short deliveries on the first two days‚ was consequently welcomed to the crease with a bouncer to the helmet from Rabada.That was the first element of what became a barrage of threatening deliveries‚ but Wagner gave as good as he got - hitting four fours and smashing Steyn over long-on for six.Williamson was the last man out when he pulled at a short delivery from Rabada and was caught behind.When Wagner was on two‚ umpire Paul Reiffel gave him out to an apparent catch at slip off Rabada.Wagner reviewed the decision and Rabada was found to have overstepped the bowling crease‚ which brought to seven the number of serious umpiring errors seen in the eight sessions of the match so far.Some of the mistakes were corrected with the help of the decision review system‚ but Gould informed the players before the start of the day’s second over that the system was not working from the Hennops River End.It was restored to full functionality before lunch. - TMG Digital..

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