Next up, Ntini - and off the first ball, a fiery yorker went right through him and crashed into the base of middle stump. What was happening out there was not for the faint of heart (0/1; 207/9); South Africa had lost four for one run, and still needed 3.

A Jayasuriya misfield at square leg produced one of those; Malinga finished that over with a ball of blistering pace, that was through Peterson before the batsman had brought his bat down; he glanced around quickly, and visibly looked relieved when the ball went past off stump by the thickness of a hair.

At the other end, Vaas produced an over from hell; his last. Late swing and cut repeatedly beat the bat without finding the edge; when he tried to bring the ball back in, Langeveldt put his body, and bat, foursquare behind the line in defense. Vaas ended with a maiden - and Malinga took the ball.

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