Kagiso Rabada rips Australia to shreds
Dynamo fast bowler Kagiso Rabada wins man of the match as SA secures first Test
Perth — The crunch of spikes on concrete resounded through the warren of corridors deep in the Lillee Marsh Stand at the Waca here on Monday. Out on the field, the poignance of a game won and lost was all around. Nothing and no one moved as another long Perth afternoon burnished the scene. The wonder of it all hung heavy in the air. Like it did in 2008 and in 2012. This time it hung heavier still. SA, without AB de Villiers, without for the most part Dale Steyn, with a single run in two innings from the famously broad bat of Hashim Amla, with only two seamers, a debutant and a host of part-timers, with Australia on 158 without loss in reply to their first innings of 242 at stumps after the second day, had won the first Test by 177 runs. How the hell had that happened? With every crunch of those spikes the answer to the question drew nearer. Round the last corner came the spikes, and Faf du Plessis. He upped a thumb at the three reporters who had arrived too late to be let into Steve...
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