When Australia arrived at St George’s Park for the second cricket Test last week, they were cock-a-hoop.When the teams leave Port Elizabeth, it will be the South Africans who will have the skip in their step after beating the tourists by six wickets to square the four-match series at 1-1.Kagiso Rabada was the man of the moment — and the match — as he took 6/54 in Australia’s second innings of 239 to bag a match analysis of 11/150, the third best by any Test bowler at St George’s Park.It was the fourth time in his 28-Test career that he has taken 10 or more wickets in a match.SA lost four wickets in chasing the 101 runs needed for victory, but in the end it was a comfortable win on the back of Rabada’s effort and AB de Villiers’s fine first-innings century."That’s an incredible Test match for us, especially after the tough loss in the first Test in Durban where we were put under pressure for most of the test," Proteas captain Faf du Plessis said."To turn it around like we did, especi...
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