Simon Harmer scripts history with 10-wicket haul as South Africa clinch series against Australia

Simon Harmer claimed match figures of 10/120 to bowl South Africa to a 176-run victory over Australia at Newlands in Cape Town. The triumph secured a 2-1 Test series win for the Proteas and dethroned Australia from the top of the ICC Test team rankings. Harmer took 4/104 in Australia's first innings and an impressive 6/16 in the second as the visitors collapsed to 111 all out chasing 288.

South Africa posted totals of 329 and 387, powered by centuries from Ryan Rickelton and Wiaan Mulder, alongside fifties from Marques Ackerman, Aiden Markram, and Marco Jansen. Mitchell Starc claimed nine wickets across the match for Australia, but Harmer's historic performance made him the first South African spinner to record a ten-wicket haul at Cape Town.