New Zealand closed in on a huge victory inside three days in the opening Test against SA on Friday after taking a 387-run lead and then reducing the tourists to 34-3 on day two of the contest.
Henry Nicholls struck 105 and Tom Blundell made 96 as the world Test champions amassed 482 all out to effectively bat the Proteas out of the contest.
Temba Bavuma and Rassie van der Dussen will resume on Saturday hoping to delay an imminent defeat in the first match of the two-Test series. Neil Wagner, who had stepped in as nightwatchman on Thursday, set the tone when he tore into the SA attack after New Zealand resumed on 116-3. Wagner clobbered two sixes and seven boundaries in his entertaining 49 before Kagiso Rabada removed him.
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