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Cricket: South Africa bowl Australia out for 99 and enforce follow-on

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South Africa bowled Australia out for 99 in the second Test, then enforced the follow-on with a lead of 326 runs. After Kagiso Rabada dismissed Nic Maddinson for the first time, Australia were 50 for one wicket at tea, according to Sowetan.

Australia were bowled out for 99 in the second cricket Test against South Africa, before the South Africans enforced the follow-on on the fourth day, Sowetan reports. South Africa then had a lead of 326 runs at St George’s Park.

Marco Jansen took five wickets for 33 runs, his fifth five-wicket haul of his career. Wiaan Mulder and Kagiso Rabada took two wickets each. After the follow-on was enforced, Rabada dismissed Nic Maddinson for the second time in the match. By tea, Australia had reached 50 for one wicket, but still trailed by 276 runs.

Steve Smith passed 11,000 Test runs, becoming the third Australian to achieve the feat after Ricky Ponting and Allan Border. He was then dismissed by Mulder. South Africa began Australia’s second innings without Anrich Nortje, who had a right groin injury and was being assessed by the team’s staff. These latest developments came during the second Test between South Africa and Australia, in which Temba Bavuma scored 179 runs on 20 October.

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