Australia clinched the Test series against South Africa when they won the second Test by 175 runs at Kingsmead yesterday.
South Africa were bowled out for 370 in their second innings with 37.4 overs to spare on the final day.
The series win enabled Australia to bounce back after losing a home series against the same opponents earlier in the season.
The victory was virtually sealed when the tourists dismissed overnight batsmen Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers inside the first hour. South Africa lost another two wickets before lunch. Although Mark Boucher and Morne Morkel resisted for 79 minutes after the break, the end came quickly after Boucher gave a return catch to part-time spinner Marcus North.
A win for Australia would clinch the three-match series after they won the first Test in Johannesburg by 162 runs.
Kallis and De Villiers made their third wicket stand worth 187 before Kallis was caught at second slip off Mitchell Johnson in the sixth over of the day for 93.
Kallis added just five runs after being dropped by Michael Clarke at point off Ben Hilfenhaus in the previous over.
Three overs later De Villiers was caught behind in Peter Siddle’s first over of the day for 84.
With no chance of chasing down a target of 546, Duminy and Boucher resisted for an hour until Duminy was caught behind for 17, gloving a vicious lifter from Hilfenhaus.
Paul Harris was caught at deep midwicket off occasional left-arm spinner Simon Katich, who went on to take two more wickets and finish with figures of three for 45.
Australia took the new ball which was due when South Africa resumed at 244 for two at the start of the day.
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England wobbled to 80 for three in their second innings, after Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Brendan Nash collected hundreds to keep West Indies in the fifth and final Test on Monday.
England lost the wickets of their captain Andrew Strauss, stylish No. 3 Owais Shah, and their vice captain Alastair Cook in a dramatic hour and 10 minutes before stumps were drawn on the penultimate day at Queen’s Park Oval.
The visitors had earlier gained a lead of just two runs, after Chanderpaul scored his 21st Test hundred, an undefeated 147, and Nash made 109, as West Indies were dismissed for 544, replying to England’s first innings total of 546 for six declared.
Chasing quick runs before the close in a desperate bid for a series-levelling victory, England soon ran into trouble.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle may have a hamstring strain, but he introduced himself to bowl his uncomplicated off-spin after four overs, and held a return catch to dismiss Strauss for 14.
Shah was fortunate Lionel Baker missed a return chance, when he got a leading edge on flick, but two balls later, his luck ran out, caught behind for one giving a thin under-edge chasing a wide half-volley from the same bowler.
The last thing England wanted was to have lost another wicket before the close, but Cook was fortunate that on 11, West Indies did not ask for a referral when an LBW appeal from Gayle was turned down. But the England vice captain failed to make use of the reprieve, and he was caught behind off Ryan Hinds’ slow left-arm bowling for 24.
Before lunch, England endured a fruitless toil, as Nash reached his maiden Test hundred and helped West Indies reach 433 for four at the interval.
England began to see signs of a last-ditch effort for victory ebb away when Nash and Chanderpaul held firm throughout the morning period.
All of the England bowlers put their best efforts forward, but the Australia-born Nash, whose parents hail from Jamaica, withstood and reached his hundred from 234 balls, when he flicked Monty Panesar through backward square leg for two.
Otherwise, it was a largely uneventful morning, except when Stuart Broad and umpire Daryl Harper faced off over a call of wide, when the fast bowler delivered a bouncer at Nash and it sailed over his head.
England made up for lost time after lunch, snaring three wickets, including Nash before tea.
But England could not prevent durable left-hander Chanderpaul from adding his name to the list of century-makers in the Test, as West Indies reached 519 for seven at tea.
Off-spin bowler Graeme Swann has been England’s bowling hero in the series, but Chanderpaul drove him for the 10th of his 12 fours to reach his hundred from 288 balls.
Chanderpaul’s was the third hundred for West Indies, a record-equalling sixth in the match, and the 16th in the series.
England had much more success in the afternoon, when Broad had Nash caught at second slip in the second over after lunch.
Nash had shared a record 234-run stand for the fifth wicket with Chanderpaul, erasing the mark set 56 years ago by Everton Weekes and Bruce Pairaudeau against India.
Swann had been wicket-less for 36 overs and suffered some punishment at the hands of Chanderpaul and fellow left-hander Ryan Hinds.
But he got his revenge when Hinds was stumped for a rapid-fire 23 that included four fours and a straight six off Swann. James Anderson then trapped Densh Ramdin LBW for 15 on the stroke of tea.
After tea, England steadily worked their way through the West Indies tail-enders and captured the home team’s last four wickets for 25 runs.
England trail in the five-Test series 0-1 following a defeat in the opening Test in Jamaica and need a victory in Trinidad to share the series and retain the Wisden Trophy.
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