Dunedin — A fire alarm held up play for 20 minutes on the third day of the first Test between New Zealand and SA at University Oval in Dunedin on Friday. The alarm began wailing from the main stand at the southern end of the ground‚ and soon a fire engine arrived. Play was halted and the stand was emptied before officials ordered a full ground evacuation. However‚ the crowd were still filing out when play was allowed to resume. Officials said the alarm had been triggered by steam. Slim lead Dean Elgar and Hashim Amla had given SA a slender lead over New Zealand at the end of the third day. While the umpires planned to extend the day’s play for nearly an hour to make up for the delay, bad light forced New Zealand to bowl their spinners on a Dunedin pitch that was offering variable bounce and turn. Amla had contributed 23 runs and Elgar 12 to SA’s 38/1 when the light was finally deemed insufficient, an overall lead of five runs. New Zealand had a 33-run first innings advantage when th...
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