Since South Africa's re-admission into international cricket, Australia has not lost a Test series in South Africa. With that said, South Africa's last series loss at home was against Australia in 2008/09.
Team News: Petersen and Abbott came in for de Kock and Parnell. While Watson and Pattinson came in for Marsh and Siddle.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Michael Clarke received a round of applause when he reached 25 for first time in 12 innings.
S Smith reached his 6th Test 50.
With Steyn off with an injury, the cracks were beginning to show in the South African camp.
Castle Lager Proteas seamer, Kyle Abbott, has described his thrilling opening spell with the ball towards Michael Clarke as a "great period of Test cricket". Clarke was stuck on 99 for 24 balls, and was tied down by consistent lines and lengths from Abbott, who bowled six maidens in a row.
Eventually Clarke reached his 27th Test century, his 5th against South Africa. He then went on to reach his 10th Test score of 150+.
It was a good toss for Australia to win as they finished their first innings with an overnight declaration on 494-7 on day 2 after play was halted by rain.
The Proteas were off to a bad start in their innings, with Petersen and du Plessis reaching Test 50s.
After the Proteas passed 200 for the fall of 6 wickets, it became clear that they needed to get to 295 in order to avoid the follow on.
Eventually Australia bowled South Africa out for 279, just a few runs short of the follow on score. However, Australia did not enforce the follow on.
At the start of their 2nd innings, Australia had a lead of 207.
Late in the evening, the man dubbed as the world's most successful captain, Graeme Smith announced he will retire from international cricket after the 3rd Test. Boucher & Kallis at Newlands to support the retiring skipper.
Australian team gave Smith a guard of honour when he came to bat. While the South Africans gave him a guard of honour when he was dismissed after his last innings.
The next day, Australia continued their domination. Warner managed to score 1 000* in Test cricket during the 2013/14 season, as the leading run-scorer. He also went on to record an 8th Test century, his 4th against South Africa.
Rogers reached 1 000 Test runs.
After reaching 303-5, Australia then declared, leaving South Africa with a mammoth score of 511 to chase down on the 4th day.
At the start of South Africa's attempt to chase down 511 runs for victory, South Africa lost 3 very early wickets.
Ryan Harris took his 100th wicket from 24 matches. While Pattinson taking his 50th Test wicket.
A few times, Warner and the Australians were warned by the umpires for throwing the ball onto the square to rough it up. Later, the umpires then had a word with Clarke about continuing with the action.
As time went by, South Africa was not going for the win. Instead, they were going for a draw, with AB de Villiers spending over 5 hours at the crease.
After holding on the whole day, with only 5 more overs to be bowled, South Africa lost their last two wickets from 2 balls. Australia bowled South Africa out for 265, winning by 245 runs and clinching the 3-match series 2-1.
Winning the series moved Australia up to number 2 in the Test Championship rankings.
Warner was named Man of the Match and Man of the Series after scoring 543 runs, with two centuries in the 3rd Test and one in the 1st Test.
This was the first Test series between South Africa and Australia which I was fully aware of. I didn't miss a Test or an innings. So I must say, the Australians are so rude. I wonder what life would be like if they didn't have mouths. Every little thing, they ran their mouths about it.
