Morne Morkel took three wickets in seven balls as South Africa swept to a series-leveling victory on the fourth day of the fourth and final Test at the Wanderers Stadium yesterday.
South Africa won by an innings and 74 runs when England were bowled out for 169 in their second innings in the last over before lunch.
Only Paul Collingwood stood firm for England, scoring 71 on a morning during which seven wickets fell for 121 runs.
Morkel finished with four for 59. He and Dale Steyn shared 14 wickets in a match dominated by the fast bowlers.
Collingwood batted aggressively at the start of the day, scoring most of the runs and taking most of the strike as he and Kevin Pietersen added 36 runs in 40 minutes to the overnight total of 48 for three. Left-arm fast bowler Wayne Parnell made the breakthrough when Pietersen chased a wide delivery, slanting away from him, to be caught behind by Mark Boucher for 12.
It completed a disappointing series for Pietersen, who scored 177 runs in four matches at an average of 25.28.
Ian Bell made only five before he was Morkel’s first victim of the day, fending a sharply lifting delivery to Jacques Kallis at second slip.
Two balls later Matt Prior was out without scoring when an attempted hook looped off a top edge and Graeme Smith was able to run back from first slip to take the catch.
In Morkel’s next over Stuart Broad gloved a catch down the leg side to Boucher. He was given not out by umpire Steve Davis, but South Africa successfully sought a review.
Graeme Swann batted with his customary aggression, making 20 off 17 balls, before he edged an out-swinger from Dale Steyn to AB de Villiers at third slip.
Collingwood’s fighting innings ended when JP Duminy was brought on to bowl his off-spinners. His first ball was a long hop that Collingwood pulled straight to Morkel at deep backward square leg.
Collingwood made 71 off 88 balls with 12 fours and a six.
Duminy wrapped up the win when Ryan Sidebottom swung and missed to bowled by the fifth ball of the final over before lunch.
BANGLADESH V INDIA
REUTERS, CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh
Left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan and paceman Shahadat Hossain took four wickets each as Bangladesh left India struggling on 213-8 before bad light brought an early end to the opening day of the first Test yesterday.
Sachin Tendulkar stood firm as wickets fell at the other end to remain unbeaten on 76, giving India some hope of recovery.
Tendulkar, who accepted an offer of bad light from the umpires 38 minutes before the scheduled close, will resume batting on the second day with Ishant Sharma (1).
Tendulkar, dropped by Imrul Kayes at slip off debutant pacer Shafiul Islam on 16, reached the mark of 13,000 Test runs with a mid-wicket boundary off spinner Mahmudullah.
India were comfortably placed at 63-0 at lunch after Bangladesh had opted to bowl first. Dense fog delayed the start by 90 minutes.
Opener Virender Sehwag, leading India in the absence of injured skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, was the first batsman to be dismissed in the second over of the post-lunch session.
Tamim Iqbal took a simple catch at short extra cover to end Sehwag’s brisk innings of 52 off 51 balls that included nine boundaries.
Gambhir followed Sehwag in the next over on 23, edging a catch to wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim in a short-pitched, rising delivery off Shahadat. He also bowled Rahul Dravid for four before Shakib had VVS Laxman stumped by Mushfiqur Rahim for seven.
Yuvraj Singh lofted a simple catch at mid-on to Rubel Hossain off Shakib to depart for 12 runs, while Shahadat returned for his third spell to present Dinesh Karthik with a third-ball duck.
Shahadat trapped Amit Mishra in front for 14 with a low full-toss ball and was unlucky not to complete his third five-wicket haul in Test cricket when Shafiul dropped Zaheer Khan for six at point off his bowling.
Zaheer, however, failed to appeal for a video appeal and was dismissed for 11, giving Shakib his fourth wicket, with Raqibul Hasan taking a catch at silly point.
Shahadat finished the day with 4-51 runs while Shakib claimed 4-52.
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