Proteas coach Russell Domingo still believes that there is hope of saving the third and final Test and the series against Australia at Newlands in Cape Town. With one more day left to play the Proteas require 440 runs to win with six wickets in hand but the Australians will feel that they have the upper hand in the game after claiming four wickets in the South African second innings…….

Domingo admitted that chasing down the score will be a tough and there is no blueprint in how a team should go about doing it……

Domingo says that the team will need to move on and start a new era after captain Graeme Smith announced his retirement. Smith was the third high profile retirement from the team in the past 18 months with Mark Boucher and Jacques Kallis having also done so…….

Domingo said the responsibility to take the team forward will fall on the shoulders of the likes of Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Dale Steyn and other senior players in the team in the same way Smith and company did so when Shaun Pollock retired……………

While the Proteas have not yet won a series against Australia at home, Domingo said that it had been their objective to create history coming into this series. Domingo has almost resigned himself to accepting a draw in this Test to save his team from a series loss……

As much as the Australians have the match firmly in their control, Domingo doesn’t count out a come from behind win from his team as they have done in the past but said it would be important to take it session by session……

Australian opening batsman David Warner who has already scored two centuries in his two innings in the third Test at Newlands says he would feel better about his centuries if his team win the Test…….

The controversial Warner said that he thrives on the pressure that comes with his adversaries banter especially after his outburst about the Proteas ball tampering in their second Test victory in Port Elizabeth. Warner says he is an honest individual who is just misunderstood……..

Warner is hopeful that his teammates will be able to claim the six remaining South African wickets and win the Test match and with the help of some reverse swing from the Newlands wicket, Warner doesn’t think that the Proteas will repeat their come from the jaws of defeat draw which they did in Adelaide last year……..Journalist: Vata Ngobeni