In a room on the second floor of the players' pavilion, Kagiso Rabada was presenting his case. Not for the first time in his career, Rabada was facing a charge of making avoidable body contact with a batsman, except this time the consequences were greater. Failure to persuade match referee Jeff Crowe that his shoulder brush with Steve Smith on the
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Sympathy for Rabada now, but how long will it last?
With the eight wickets Rabada has over the first three days, his strike-rate dropped to 39.5; only Shane Bond has a better Test strike-rate in the last 100 years of Test cricket. © Getty
