{"id":1271131,"date":"2022-12-29T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/australia-beat-south-africa-by-innings-and-182-runs-in-melbourne-to-seal-test-series\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T07:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:41:36","slug":"australia-beat-south-africa-by-innings-and-182-runs-in-melbourne-to-seal-test-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/australia-beat-south-africa-by-innings-and-182-runs-in-melbourne-to-seal-test-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia beat South Africa by innings and 182 runs in Melbourne to seal Test series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mitchell Starc (third from right) claimed 1-62 despite a finger injury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n\n
South Africa 189<\/strong> (Green 5-27) & 204 (Bavuma 65, Lyon 3-58)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Australia 575-8 dec <\/strong>(Warner 200, Carey 111, Smith 85)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Australia won by an innings and 182 runs<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scorecard<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Australia thrashed South Africa by an innings and 182 runs in the second Test to win the series with a game to spare.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Resuming on 15-1, South Africa were bowled out for 204 before tea on the fourth day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Off-spinner Nathan Lyon claimed 3-58, including Temba Bavuma for 65, while Khaya Zondo and Keshav Maharaj were needlessly run out.<\/span><\/p>\n

The final Test in Sydney starts on 3 January.<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia, who <\/span>won the first Test inside two days<\/span>, extended their lead over India at the top of the <\/span>World Test Championship table<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span>. South Africa, who began the series in second, are now fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia captain Pat Cummins described his side, who have won seven of their 10 Tests in 2022, as \u201cprobably the best test team I\u2019ve played in\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of captaining, I don\u2019t feel like I have to do much at all,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone looks after themselves. You just kind of make sure the buses are on time, which the team manager does.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just in a really sweet spot at the moment. We can just sit back and appreciate the place that we are in because it\u2019s really special. We\u2019re having a hell of a lot of fun as well doing it together with some of our best mates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

South Africa captain Dean Elgar said: \u201cThat was bit of a hammering. It is not easy at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re playing for the badge; we\u2019re playing for the pride of our team. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a lot of guys hurting.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s victory at the MCG was all but certain after they posted a mammoth 575-8 declared \u2013 featuring 200 from David Warner and Alex Carey\u2019s 111 \u2013 in reply to South Africa\u2019s 189.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the tourists avoided an eight successive total of less than 200, they never looked likely to take the game into a fifth day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bavuma was the only batter to make more than 33 as Scott Boland claimed 2-49 on his home ground and Cummins, who removed Elgar on the third evening, conceded only 20 runs from 16 overs and reviewed two decisions that were overturned by the TV umpire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part-time leg-spinner Steve Smith sealed victory in the Shane Warne Test by bowling Lungi Ngidi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pace bowler Mitchell Starc, who bowled 18 overs in the second innings despite dislocating a finger on the opening day, will miss the third Test.<\/span><\/p>\n

All-rounder Cameron Green, who took 5-27 in the first innings and broke a finger during his unbeaten 51, has also been ruled out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Across<\/span><\/span>\"Across<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitchell Starc (third from right) claimed 1-62 despite a finger injury South Africa 189 (Green 5-27) & 204 (Bavuma 65, Lyon 3-58) Australia 575-8 dec (Warner 200, Carey 111, Smith 85) Australia won by an innings and 182 runs Scorecard Australia thrashed South Africa by an innings and 182 runs in the second Test to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}