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- Updated: August 29, 2016
Tea New Zealand 214 (Williamson 77, Rabada 3-62, Steyn 3-66) trail South Africa 481 for 8 dec by 267 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
South Africa’s seamers made light work of New Zealand’s middle and lower order to bowl them out for 214, earning a lead of 267 on the third day in Centurion. Resuming on his overnight score of 15, Kane Williamson batted diligently to score 77, his first Test fifty in South Africa, but did not find an ally till Neil Wagner contributed a quick 30-ball 31 at No. 10. South Africa did not enforce the follow-on as early tea was taken.
Williamson displayed exemplary technique – head over the ball, soft hands at point of contact and bat near the pad – to quell Dale Steyn, Kagiso Rabada and Vernon Philander, all of whom got the ball to move both ways through the day. Williamson repeatedly left deliveries on a testing line outside off stump, forcing the quicks straighter and then picking them off through midwicket – his modus operandi for most of his innings.
South Africa didn’t waver from their plan to Henry Nicholls, though. Despite looking awkward while fending or avoiding the bouncers, Nicholls seemed largely untroubled against the ensuing full deliveries until he missed a drive off Rabada. Umpire Paul Reiffel …
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