Steyn routs New Zealand with ten-wicket haul

Scorecard and ball-by-ball commentary
How they were out

A magnificent spell of 6 for 49 from Dale Steyn decimated a feeble New Zealand and led to South Africa winning the second and final Test at Centurion inside three days by an innings and 59 runs. It was Steyn's second ten-wicket haul in consecutive Tests, and New Zealand now limp towards a three-match one-day series.

This was a rout of frightening speed. It took South Africa just 34.3 overs to steamroll New Zealand for 136, a total that included Stephen Fleming's 54. Scott Styris scraped together 29; Brendon McCullum 21, while extras stole 11. The rest aren't worth talking about.

Steyn, however, is. For the second time in consecutive Tests he baffled - even occasionally frightened - New Zealand's wary top-order with pace, movement and aggression. As was the case in Johannesburg, he received fine support from Makhaya Ntini, Andre Nel and Jacques Kallis - all of whom were good, if not as exemplary as their young colt. Today, however, Steyn had one other helping hand: the finger of Mark Benson.

Lou Vincent was the first unlucky recipient when Benson adjudged that a leg-side slider would somehow have hit the stumps. It was a dreadful decision, but such is the way of the world when all is against you. Steyn, roaring up to the crease and in excellent rhythm, removed Michael Papps leg-before (plumb, this time) while Kallis ended Styris' staunch support of Fleming when he induced a thick outside edge.

Fleming batted angrily, petulantly and excellently - as he has in both these Tests - taking the aggressive route and seizing upon another short and wide. Of course, 105 Tests have taught him the value of patience and experience - both attributes which New Zealand lack in spades, as exemplified by Ross Taylor.

After thumping two fours, Nel roared a typically raucous and unlikely appeal for lbw which Taylor, and the umpire, dismissed out of hand. Noticing he had wandered from his crease, Hashim Amla at short-leg grabbed the ball and flicked it onto the stumps to run him out. Clever of Amla; careless and plain daft from Taylor. It rather sums up New Zealand cricket at the moment