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Warne leads Australia to brink of victory
3/29/2006
DURBAN, South Africa, March 28, 2006 (AFP) - Leg-spinner Shane Warne took four wickets as Australia closed in on a series-clinching victory on the fifth and final day of the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead Tuesday.
South Africa, set an unlikely 410 to win, were 128 for seven at tea. Warne, who started the home team's slide by taking the first three wickets, had figures of four for 48.
Australia, who won the first Test in Cape Town, were set to clinch the three-match series and, for the third successive time on a tour of South Africa, do it with a match still to be played.
Before Warne came into the attack in the 18th over of the day, South Africa seemed to have a reasonable chance of saving the match.
De Villiers (46) and captain Smith (40) put together South Africa's best opening partnership in five Tests against Australia.
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