South Africa v Australia: second men’s cricket Test, day four – live

Updates as the Proteas host Australia at St George’s Park Play start time in Gqeberha is 9.45am local/6.45pm AEDT/8.45am BST Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email Alright, friends, we’re set for a big one.

Day three in Gqeberha saw the biggest turnaround in a Test match since … well, the previous one in this series in Durban.

Is Temba Bavuma the Matt Renshaw of South Africa? Many are saying it.

That was quite an astonishing day’s cricket, and it leaves the hosts more than 400 runs in the lead, while the visitors have already lost Nic Maddinson for his second duck in three hits, and Scott Boland is going to resume this morning having been the nightwatch in the late gloom.

For Australia today, the task is simply to bat and bat and bat.

Try to eat up as many overs as possible, while keeping the runs going in order to whittle down that deficit from the imposing proportions that it has now.

Do they have the technique and temperament to go long? If they can wipe out day four, then day five won’t pose as much threat, and a draw will mean the visitors at least have the series trophy locked up.

But if South Africa’s bowlers can sustain some damage in the way Australia’s couldn’t, trouble looms.

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