MOMENTS

FAF NEARLY DONE IN BY DUST
In the third ball of the 101st over, Faf du Plessis hit a straight drive that rushed past bowler Rubel Hossain while he was barely through the second step of his follow-through. Du Plessis held his pose for the cameras, glanced for a fraction of a second at the ball and, the four being a foregone conclusion, strolled down the wicket to do a bit of gardening and perhaps receive partner Hashim Amla's congratulations on a shot well played.

Suddenly, Du Plessis scampered to the non-striker's end and Amla jogged to the striker's. Just when Du Plessis looked down to pat the pitch with his bat, the speeding ball had hit the sawdust positioned directly behind the umpire and slowed down enough for a fielder to collect it and throw it back. It was the closes that Bangladesh came to outsmarting South Africa in the series, but Du Plessis wisened up just in time.

AMLA TOYS WITH RUBEL
By the 105th over, Amla was so entrenched in the wicket and so comfortable with the bowling that he was like a kid playing a cricket video game and after completing a hundred through orthodox but sparkling strokeplay, he was just picking his areas to score, maybe out of sheer boredom born of the simplicity of the challenge at hand.

He wanted to play a ramp shot. Rubel bowled it on a good length, but that was no issue. There was a gully in position; not even a consideration. Amla shaped for the ramp, bent a little lower than usual and uncocked his wrist to send the ball flying over gully's head for four.

BAVUMA'S BLINDER
In the 12th over of the innings Mushfiqur -- who had flirted enough times in his seven balls with rising deliveries after off stump to keep the slips and gully interested -- looked to run a ball down to third man for a boundary, and played it off the face of the bat to the right of gully. It went like a rocket and the diminutive Bavuma stuck his hand out and managed to put in a dive in that split second. In the next split second Bavuma had a look of disbelief on his face as he looked down at his right hand to see the ball safely lodged there. That disbelief did not compare with the look on Mushfiqur's face however.