{"id":947635,"date":"2026-10-31T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947635\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:38:10","slug":"australia-collapse-on-final-day-as-simon-harmer-spins-south-africa-to-series-win-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947635\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia collapse on final day as Simon Harmer spins South Africa to series win | Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">South Africa\u2019s Simon \u2060Harmer took a career-best six for 16 as the hosts thumped Australia by 176 runs to clinch \u2060their three-test series 2-1 at \u200bNewlands on \u200cSaturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Australia lost Matt Renshaw and Marnus Labuschagne in the opening over and never really recovered. While Pat Cummins\u2019s 90-ball vigil and Nathan Lyon\u2019s unbeaten 33 in the hope of a draw delayed the inevitable, their fate was sealed Simon Harmer bowled Josh Hazlewood just before tea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Kagiso Rabada took three for 39 as he became the fastest man to 350 Test wickets while Harmer\u2019s ripped the heart out of the tourists.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-3\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter |Every day<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-vf9hps\">Sign up to Australia Sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-djbwnz\">Get a daily roundup of the latest sports news, features and comment from our Australian sports desk<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793453890_358_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-gx9601\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-3\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">This report will update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s Simon \u2060Harmer took a career-best six for 16 as the hosts thumped Australia by 176 runs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-947635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}