About 45 overs were lost over three days of the Durban Test because of bad light, a factor teams must now consider in their strategies. Australia posted a first‑innings total of 390 and reached 33‑0 in the second, while South Africa managed 284.
The Australian pace quartet of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon, all over 33 years old and each with more than 300 wickets, shared nine wickets in the match, continuing an unprecedented achievement first seen in Mackay two months earlier.