South Africa won the fourth and final Test by 492 runs. Faf du Plessis's team won the series 3-1. South Africa won the series against Australia for the first time since 1970.
Australia started the fifth and final day of the match with 88 runs for 3 wickets on Tuesday at the New Wanderers Stadium. To win, the visitors needed 524 runs in the last day. A day to spend 7 wickets in hand to save the match.
Australia could not go near On the fifth day, their innings survived only 16.4 overs. After adding 31 runs to the last seven wickets, the visitors lost to 119 runs in the innings.
In the first over of the day Philander returned to Shane and Mitchell Marsh. Shawn was caught by Tamba Bazumah in his first ball of the ball. Mitchell was caught in the glove by Quartin de Kock at the wicket of the fourth bowler. He is the twelfth victim of Philander.
Another unbeaten batsman Peter Hanscom returned to the previous day by adding one run. When Philander was bowled to the stumps, he bowled.
Tim Paine is the victim of Philander's shock to shock Australia in swing bowling. Captain Poke was caught by de Kock gloves. Philander took the wicket of Pat Cummins and Chad Sears in successive overs in the next over. Took 6 wickets and scored only 3 runs.
South Africa's win was a bit delayed by the 10th wicket partnership. Australia's fade tour ends with Nathan Lyon's run-out South Africa lose a big margin in Darren Lehmann's outgoing Test
South Africa's biggest win in terms of runs ends in Australia's most visited tour Cricket Australia, after being involved in ball-tampering in the third Test, has been suspended for one year by Steven Smith and David Warner for a period of time and Peter Handscom.
South Africa's best bowler Philander took 6 wickets for 21 runs. He won 9 wickets in two innings, he won the Match Seerah Award. Kagiso Radda won the series with a fine bowling throughout the series.
Short score:
South Africa 1st innings: 488
Australia 1st Innings: 221
South Africa 2nd Innings: 344/6 Dikle
Australia 2nd Innings: (target 612) 46.4 Over 119 (Repeat 5, Barnes 42, Khawaja 7, Handscom 24, Seven 7, Mitchell 0, Penn 7, Cummins 1, Lion 9, Seres 0, Hazelwood 9 *; / 16, Philander 6/21, Maharoof 1/47, M Morkel 2/28, Marcrum 0/6)
Result: South Africa won by 492 runs
Series: South Africa won 3-1 in a four-match series
Man of the Match: Vernon Philander
Man of the series: Kagiso Radda
