Despondent Australia crushed in a session
Morne Morkel walked off with career-best figures as Australia lost all 10 wickets during the evening session, though off-field events continued to overshadow the result
22/03Result
3rd Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Cape Town, Mar 22-25 2018
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![South Africa]( "South Africa")
311 & 373 -
![Australia]( "Australia")
255 & 107 (39.4 ov)
Player of the Match
22/03Result
3rd Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Cape Town, Mar 22-25 2018
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![South Africa]( "South Africa")
311 & 373 -
![Australia]( "Australia")
255 & 107 (39.4 ov)
Player of the Match
Day 4
Steven Smith and Warner stood down as captain and vice-captain
Wicketkeeper Tim Paine will lead the side for the last two days of the contest, and Smith and Warner will play under him
Australia must forge new identity - Paine
After echoing the Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland in apologising to fans of the game, Australia's captain for now, Tim Paine, believes his team must forge a new and better identity out of the wreckage of Newlands
Smith, Warner could face life ban from CA
An ICC suspension from the final Test against South Africa may be just the start of sanctions for Australia's captain and vice-captain
Broad pours scorn on Australian double-standards
England fast bowler openly questions Smith's defence of his team's actions, and accuses coach Lehmann of hypocrisy
Steven Smith banned for one Test, Bancroft given three demerit points
Australia captain Steven Smith will not play the fourth Test against South Africa in Johannesburg, after the ICC gave him the maximum penalty for tampering with the ball
South Africa find their sweet moments in 'soap opera'
The achievements of Dean Elgar, Aiden Markram and AB de Villiers should be celebrated and the form of Faf du Plessis should be questioned but that will come on another day, a less strange day
Today is the highlight of my life - Morkel
Morne Morkel has waited 12 years for a day like this, a day when he could stand out and revel in the highest high of his career
Day 3
South Africa tighten grip as ball-tampering row erupts
Cameron Bancroft worked on the ball in an incident, which overshadowed the third day's play in Cape Town, where the hosts stretched their lead towards 300
Smith, Boucher take aim at Lehmann and Australian crowds
Former South Africa cricketers weigh in after Australia coach labels Newlands crowd behaviour "disgraceful"
South Africa back on the moral high ground
Having been so forthright about insisting they play hard but fair, Australia have now been shown up as disingenuous, and have horns on their heads where South Africa have halos
Brettig: Australia's 'line' becomes their noose
Australia wondered why there was little sympathy for their players in the face of personal abuse from the Newlands crowd. Then Cameron Bancroft was caught ball-tampering
Cameron Bancroft at centre of alleged ball-tampering row
A small, yellow object was seen in Bancroft's hands after he had worked on the ball, and he was also captured taking it from his pocket and seeming to place it down his trousers
Australian government calls for Steven Smith to be removed as captain
The country's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the ball-tampering incident in Cape Town a "shocking disappointment"
Some players have 'failed our culture' - Steve Waugh
Former players reacted in anger and with shock to Australia's admission of ball-tampering in the Newlands Test
Bancroft, Smith admit to ball tampering
Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft has admitted to trying to change the condition of the ball using a foreign object on the third day of the Cape Town Test against South Africa
Desperation drove Australia to cheat - Smith
Australia's captain said it was the decision of the team's 'leadership group' to try and rough up the ball in an effort to get it to reverse, and that the coaches had nothing to do with it
Day 2
Bowlers keep SA on top after Elgar carries bat
Morne Morkel ran through Australia's middle order and collected his 300th Test wicket as South Africa strengthened their position
Elgar joins Haynes in carrying-the-bat honours board
The South Africa opener has become only the second batsman in Test history to carry his bat three times
Morkel becomes fifth South African to 300 Test wickets
The fast bowler took the wickets of Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith and Shaun Marsh on the second day at Newlands to reach the milestone in his 85th Test
Newlands crowd abuse 'disgraceful'- Lehmann
Cricket Australia has made a written complaint to Cricket South Africa about taunts largely directed at the partners and families of Steven Smith's team
Rabada puts Warner, Australia in fight-or-flight mode
Eleven balls, one blow to the arm, five fours, one six, and one cartwheeling off stump: these were the ingredients of a brief and potentially series-defining bout
Warner in heated exchange with spectator after dismissal
David Warner was involved in a heated exchange with a spectator as he walked off the ground after his dismissal by Kagiso Rabada on day two of the third Test in Cape Town
It's been a lot of hard work over the 12 years - Morkel
"It's a special feeling, especially because I am the world record holder for the most [wickets off] no-balls," Morkel joked afterwards
'He has been a great servant to South African cricket'
Having already announced plans to retire, Morne Morkel has become the fifth South African to 300 Test wickets. Former South Africa bowling coach Vincent Barnes talks us through his career
Day 1
Elgar stands firm as Cummins leads Aussie revival
Pat Cummins' afternoon spell turned the tables on South Africa, after Dean Elgar and AB de Villiers had laid a very promising platform
Dean Elgar makes his presence felt
For someone who has identified his role as being partly to "irritate the opposition", the South African opener had been unusually subdued in the first two Tests. On day one at Newlands, he was back to his immovable, in-yer-face best
Cummins channels big Merv in spell of heart and skill
There was a fittingness about Allan Border's moustachioed battering ram being in the crowd at Newlands to watch his svelte modern-day avatar go to work in a display that turned day one of the third Test
Others
David Saker on Newlands controversy: 'The finger-pointing is going to go on and on and on'
The then Australia bowling coach has likened the team's 'monumental mistake' to the underarm incident of 1981
Cameron Bancroft: 'Self-explanatory' that bowlers were aware of ball-tampering tactics in Newlands Test
CA says that the governing body is still open to hearing and investigating any new information about the Newlands incident
Australia did not tamper with the ball in Cape Town
It was all a big misunderstanding; here's the inside story
Umpire suspicions about Australia led to Newlands sting
Ian Gould has written that Australia's conduct with the ball was already under the scanner leading into the Newlands Test
Warner's manager claims Australia were 'told' to tamper with ball after Hobart loss in 2016-17
"You'd have to be a blind Labrador to not realise more than three people were involved", he also says of Newlands ball-tampering in 2018
The return of the Newlands beast - the review Cricket Australia forgot
Rick McCosker is firm that CA allowed the team review to be "swamped" by Simon Longstaff's culture review
Ball-tampering: Australia's Newlands bowlers want 'rumour-mongering and innuendo' to stop
Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon issue statement following Cameron Bancroft's latest comments
This is Australia's moment of truth
It's beyond ball-tampering. It's about how they want to play the game
Many ways to tamper - Who used what?
The Bancroft incident in Cape Town is not the first time a cricket ball has been tampered with using a foreign object. Can you match these objects with the players involved?
Cricket needs a global ball-tampering inquiry to clear the air
While Australia's transgression was by far the most brazenly egregious, ball-tampering had been a global issue
The ball-tampering incident: full coverage
Full coverage of the ball-tampering incident and its aftermath during Australia tour of South Africa 2017-18
Newlands ball-tampering scandal: CA integrity unit reaches out to Bancroft for more information
The problem CA has is they have tried to sweep it under the carpet and not come out with the full story, says Michael Clarke
SA set to miss 2017-18 transformation target
Selection questions over Temba Bavuma/Theunis de Bruyn and Lungi Ngidi/Morne Morkel highlight the delicate balancing act for South Africa
Starc fit as Smith seeks a game-changer
Australia's captain, meanwhile, has looked notably assertive with the bat in net sessions this week, and reckons himself to be hitting the ball far better than at any stage during his prolific Ashes summer
Rabada reprieve adds spice to simmering contest
South Africa will be buoyed by the availability of No. 1 Test bowler Kagiso Rabada while Australia hope to have Mitchells Starc and Marsh fit
