Handscomb, Swepson power Australia A to 10-wicket win

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Australia A 402 (Handscomb 137, Patterson 92, Phehlukwayo 3-70) and 0 for 85 (Patterson 50*) beat South Africa A 304 (Ramela 82, Mennie 5-61, Swepson 3-55) and 180 (Swepson 4-33) by 10 wickets

Australia A captain Peter Handscomb scored his eighth first-class century to give his side a 98-run first-innings lead and set up a thumping 10-wicket win over South Africa A in the second unofficial Test in Townsville. The win meant that Australia A emerged with a clean sweep of the two-match series.

South Africa A had elected to bat, and started very slowly, with the openers putting on 26 runs in the best part of 15 overs before Dean Elgar departed for 5 off 40. Stephen Cook and Omphile Ramela both notched up fifties in a second-wicket partnership of 83. …

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