None of those late runs were made under the pressure of a chase, however.<\/p>\n
The wicket of Simon Harmer in the final session, bowled shouldering arms by a ball from Nathan Lyon which turned back sharply showed the difficulty ahead.<\/p>\n
Harmer dismissed Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis and Alex Carey in Australia’s first innings – all recognised batters.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Essex legend, who once considered playing for England, will be crucial.<\/p>\n
As ever in such scenarios, the pitch will play its part.<\/p>\n
The PitchViz rating – CricViz’s way of assessing the difficulty of a surface – jumped to 6.6 in the final session, comfortably the highest (thus most difficult) rating of the Test.<\/p>\n
After settling down in the morning, the ball, as would be expected as a Test progresses, was turning significantly more in the final session than at any point across the previous four days.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, however, South Africa’s false shot percentage was just 11% across day four, a drop from 18% on day three.<\/p>\n
Uneven bounce has not yet been a factor but one ball to Rickelton shortly after tea also shot low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"None of those late runs were made under the pressure of a chase, however. The wicket of Simon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-900277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}