South Africa completes 3-0 whitewash

South Africa beat Pakistan by an innings and 18 runs to secure a 3-0 series victory on the third day of the third and final Test at Centurion on Sunday.

Earlier, a batting collapse left Pakistan on 176 for six in their second innings at tea on the third day of the third Test.

Pakistan require another 77 runs to make South Africa bat again although an unbeaten seventh-wicket stand of 62, at almost a run a ball, from Sarfraz Ahmed (27) and Saeed Ajmal (30) has frustrated the hosts's victory charge.

Starting the day on 14 for one, Pakistan showed some fighting spirit losing only Younus Khan (11), who played a thick edge off Dale Steyn to Graeme Smith at first slip, in the morning session.

Azhar Ali (27) and Imran Farhat put on 54 for the third wicket before the former ran himself out in calamitous fashion.

Farhat worked the ball to fine leg and after running one, Ali turned for a second at the wicketkeeper's end. He was always struggling against the bullet throw of Steyn from the boundary and in the end was well short.

Pakistan lost two more wickets with the score on 107 as they began to implode.

Kyle Abbott picked up his eighth wicket of the match when Farhat (43) slashed at a wide delivery and was caught by wicketkeeper AB de Villiers.

Captain Misbah-ul-Haq (5) then became Rory Kleinveldt's first wicket of the game when he got a thin edge to a ball. Kleinveldt soon took a second when Asad Shafiq (6) scooped a delivery to Vernon Philander at mid-off.

South Africa made 409 in their first innings.

They lead the three-match series 2-0 having won the first test in Johannesburg by 211 runs followed by a four-wicket victory in Cape Town.