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10/13 07:02 CDT Hazlewood cleans up South Africa as Australia wins Durban
cricket test by 214 runs
Hazlewood cleans up South Africa as Australia wins Durban cricket test by 214
runs
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) --- Josh Hazlewood's career-best 6-49 helped
Australia win the first cricket test by 214 runs at Kingsmead and finish off
South Africa on the final day Tuesday.
Hazlewood took four of the six wickets Australia was hunting for on day five.
A target of 421 was always improbable for South Africa and the world champion
Proteas were cleaned up less than an hour after lunch and within five overs of
Australia taking the second new ball.
South Africa was all out for 206 after 284 in the first innings.
Middle-order batter Matt Renshaw was easily the standout player with 190 runs
in Australia's first innings of 390 and 82 in the second total of 314-6
declared. Renshaw's part-time spin also netted the first two wickets of his
test career.
Opening batter Aiden Markram led South Africa's fourth-innings resistance for
nearly six hours with a 237-ball knock for 75 before he was ninth man out.
Markram was caught behind off an inside edge to Mitchell Starc. He was
initially given not out but Australia reviewed.
Hazlewood broke the defiant stand between Markram and Wiaan Mulder that started
on Monday and endured for nearly two more hours on Tuesday.
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