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- Updated: November 26, 2016
South Africa are not ready to head home just yet, despite having just a lead of 70 with four wickets in hand going into the fourth day of the Adelaide Test. “We’ve got two big days left and tomorrow (Sunday) is one of the biggest ones. There’s a lot of fight. We’re not on the plane yet,” Neil McKenzie, South Africa’s batting coach, said.
Those words may be dismissed as fanciful, but Australia would do well to look back to four years ago, when Russell Domingo, South Africa’s assistant coach then, vowed similar and was proved similar right. On that occasion, South Africa were staring at defeat on the final day, having stumbled to 77 for 4 chasing 430. They batted out a draw.
Now, they will need to bat with resolve if they are to set Australia a challenging target. “Hopefully Stephen Cook converts, which is what his track record shows he can do,” he said. “And then if Quinton de Kock can produce the Quinton de Kock knock that everyone knows he can do and has been doing, that would push us up past 180 and 200. If we can …
