Australia barely avoid record low

Cape Town: Australia needed a last-wicket partnership of 26 runs to avoid the record for the all-time lowest team total in Test cricket yesterday, finally collapsing to 47 all out on a chaotic second day of the first match against South Africa.

No 11 Nathan Lyon top-scored with 14 and No 10 Peter Siddle was next with 12 not out to steer Australia from 21 for nine — five runs off the worst score in Test history, when New Zealand was bowled out by England in 1955.   Read More