Five best Test match knocks by JP Duminy

#2 141 vs Australia, Perth 2016

An innings of 141 at the WACA virtually dumped Australia out of the contest

Duminy's favourite Test opponents – three of his six Test hundreds have come against Australia – tasted further harshness from the player with South Africa setting about to clinch a third consecutive Test series there. After falling behind by 2 runs in the first innings and losing two early wickets (among them Hashim Amla), the left-handed duo of Duminy and Dean Elgar joined hands to hurt the hosts.

A humungous partnership of 250, in which Duminy contributed 141, virtually dumped Australia out of the contest. An array of strokes against pace and spin alike thoroughly frustrated an attack comprising Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon, as courtesy of that huge stand, Elgar’s own 127 and invaluable lower order runs, South Africa took a 1-0 lead after a 177-run win, in a series where they would eventually register yet another triumph on the opponent’s soil.

In the absence of AB de Villiers, the big score piled up by Duminy at number four went a long way in influencing the result of the match in which he also dismissed Australia’s second innings top-scorer Usman Khawaja for 97, his first nervous-ninety score in Tests.