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SA follow on for first time in 30 years

Andrew Caddick came up with a dream spell which gave him career-best figures and forced South Africa to follow on for the first time in more than 30 years on the third day of the third Test against South Africa at Kingsmead yesterday.

The England paceman took seven wickets for 46 runs as the home team crashed to 156 all out in reply to England's 366 for nine declared.

Following on, South Africa were 27 for no wicket when bad light ended play 13.5 overs early.

It took just 11balls for Caddick to break the back of the South Africans. He did not do it all alone but had wicketkeeper Alec Stewart to complete the finishing touches, as Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis and Gary Kirsten were caught behind.

Three more wickets came his way in five balls in his second spell.

The wicket of Kallis was the 100th in Tests for the 31-year-old New Zealand-born bowler, whose best figures in 26 previous Tests were six for 65 against the West Indies in Port-of-Spain in 1993-94.

South Africa had not been forced to follow-on in their most recent 74 Tests, going back to a match against Australia in Cape Town in 1966-67 before the country was isolated from international sport because of apartheid.

England ended a sequence of 16 matches in which they trailed on the first innings, while South Africa had led in 16 successive games, with first innings totals above 400 in their past seven matches.

Agencies