Australia stays firmly within the hunt for victory within the third Take a look at towards South Africa, needing simply 4 wickets to wrap up the vacationers’ first innings due to some distinctive bowling on a cloudy and rain-disrupted fourth day on the SCG.Pat Cummins (3-29 from 14 overs) took two wickets in a venomous spell of bowling late on day 4 to depart the Proteas 6-149, nonetheless 326 runs behind Australia’s first-innings whole.With Australia eyeing an ideal summer time of 5 wins from 5 Checks, the hosts will want 14 wickets on the ultimate day of a rain-disrupted Take a look at to sentence South Africa to a 3rd defeat on tour.Captain Cummins might have arrived on the Sydney Cricket Floor on Saturday hoping to offer Usman Khawaja an opportunity to knock off 5 runs wanted for his first Take a look at double century, however as soon as once more Sydney’s climate intervened.The day began nearly 5 hours later than scheduled and simply shy of 48 hours after the final Ball was bowled within the Take a look at, after rain worn out the primary session-and-a-half of day 4 following an early end on day two and whole washout of day three.Cummins declared Australia’s first innings on 4-475, stranding Khawaja on 195 and giving the bowling assault a day-and-a-half to bowl South Africa out twice. Pat Cummins declined the choice to ship Usman Khawaja out for a brief spell to get his maiden Take a look at double tonne.(Getty Pictures: Cameron Spencer)Australia made up for misplaced time as soon as play began, with loads of motion within the opening overs, together with a spectacular slips catch from Steve Smith that was denied by the slimmest margin in a evaluation by the third umpire.It was Elgar who edged Josh Hazlewood to Smith low down, however regardless of the dive and the ball showing to lodge into the hand of a diving Smith, Richard Kettleborough noticed the ball grazing the grass as he accomplished the catch to disclaim the Aussies.It didn’t take lengthy for the Australians to strike although, and Elgar was once more prised out with a bouncer angled into him that he gloved to Carey for 15, giving Hazlewood his first wicket of the collection and first for the reason that opening Take a look at of the summer time towards the West Indies. Dean Elgar is averaging under 10 on the high of the order on this collection.(Getty Pictures: Mark Kolbe)The Proteas skipper has scored simply 46 runs at a median of 9.2 this collection, his frequent early failures plunging his group into bother.Fellow opener Sarel Erwee, whose common this collection is just not a lot better at 15, fell quickly after, opting to not play at a Nathan Lyon ball that went on with the arm to clip the highest of off stump and have him bowled for 18.The very subsequent over, Heinrich Klaasen — South Africa’s third quantity three of the collection — went the identical approach as his skipper, fending a brief ball to Carey, this day without work the bowling of Cummins, for two, leaving the Proteas 3-37. Nathan Lyon bowled Sarel Erwee to depart the Proteas struggling of their first innings.(Getty Pictures: Cameron Spencer)Accidents to tempo bowling choices Mitchell Starc and Cameron Inexperienced, plus the dropping of Scott Boland, left Cummins very mild on seam choices by the day, a difficulty highlighted by the actual fact such little play had been in a position to happen because of rain leaving the pitch much less tough than anticipated.That meant Ashton Agar, enjoying his first Take a look at since 2017, bowled his first Take a look at overs on Australian soil as second change, working in tandem with Lyon earlier than tea.Temba Bavuma has confronted extra deliveries than any South African batter within the collection, and dug in for an additional strong begin, making it to the tea break however finally falling quickly after the resumption when he feathered a Hazlewood size ball by to Carey for 35.And that supply was the primary signal of reverse swing for the Australians, bringing their two-pronged tempo battery again into the assault. Pat Cummins’s chic yorker accounted for Khaya Zondo.(Getty Pictures: Jason McCawley/Cricket Australia)Cummins then dismissed Khaya Zondo LBW for 39 with a fantastic thing about a yorker, and was inside a few millimetres of claiming a second wicket in the identical over when he trapped Marco Jansen in entrance, just for the ball to pitch marginally outdoors leg.Jansen endured a torrid spell within the center, carrying a few balls to the physique as Cummins alternated banging the ball in brief with teasing yorkers to each he and Kyle Verreynne as a part of a chic spell of bowling.It was an edge that accounted for Verreynne, who fended a ball that simply left him off the pitch to Smith at first slip for 19 within the fifth over of the spell.Lyon continued to function from the Paddington Finish, making use of the tough outdoors off stump to extract respectable flip and bounce to bother each batter he confronted.Jansen narrowly survived a evaluation for LBW, not enjoying a shot to a ball that got here in from outdoors off, the DRS exhibiting the ball happening to clip the off stump, staying with the umpire’s name of not out.Regardless of the strain, he and Simon Harmer survived till the shut, understanding that each ball they survive tomorrow will assist edge South Africa nearer to salvaging a draw.Nevertheless, with a clearer forecast and 98 overs scheduled to be bowled, survival will nonetheless be an enormous ask for the vacationers.