With a day to spare, SA pacers complete the formalities
New Zealand also lost the first Test by an innings after they were bowled out for 45 before lunch on the opening day.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith said that he had been pleased by the standard of cricket his team had played over the series. “We’ve had to work hard to get into this position and it’s nice to keep playing well and it’s been a wonderful two Test matches for us,” Smith said.
Dean Brownlie and BJ Watling provided the bulk of New Zealand’s runs with a 97-run fifth wicket partnership. Brownlie brought up his fourth Test fifty but after making his way to 53 off 141 balls he edged a delivery from Jacques Kallis to keeper AB de Villiers. Watling, one of the few positives the Black Caps could take out of the series, recorded his second half-century of the match, scoring 63 off 117 balls with 11 boundaries before he was bowled by a superb delivery from Steyn that pegged back the batsman’s off-stump.
Brownlie’s dismissal left New Zealand on 182 for five and the advent of the second new ball brought about the departure
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