Replacement paceman Kyle Abbott took 6-77 as South Africa completed an innings and 80-run humiliation of Australia in Hobart on Tuesday to seal the three-match series with a game to spare. Resurgent South Africa, who won the series-opener in Perth by 177 runs, will head into their first day-night test match in Adelaide next week confident they can sweep their demoralised opponents. It was South Africa's third straight test series win in Australia after their 2008 and 2012 successes. "It wasn't the way we planned it, credit to South Africa I thought they bowled beautifully again this morning." De Kock, who scored a decisive century in South Africa's first innings 326, took his fourth catch of the second innings when Abbott returned to remove Mitchell Starc for a duck.

Source: dna November 15, 2016 03:37 UTC