Cricket: NZ bowled out within a day

7:00 AM

Rookie Hamish Marshall rescued New Zealand with an unbeaten 40 before South Africa bowled out the tourists for 200 on the second day of the final test in Johannesburg overnight.

South Africa were 18 for one when bad light stopped ended play 3.2 overs early. Gary Kirsten had been dismissed for 10 runs with the third last ball of the day.

Marshall came to the crease during a flurry of five dismissals for 34 runs between lunch and tea, shared by Makhaya Ntini, debutant Mfuneko Ngam, skipper Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis.

Ntini finished with 3-29, Pollock 2-41, Kallis 2-26 and Ngam - who like Marshall is just 21 years old - 2-34.

With the total on 113 for five, Marshall painfully went about setting a world record 60 minutes to score a first test run on debut.

He was even pinned twice by Ntini but shrugged off the hostile bowling to chase after the attack.

The Black Caps, guilty of poor batting in the previous two tests, raced to 83 for one at lunch - courtesy of four dropped catches including what should have been two regulation takes by Daryll Cullinan off Ngam.

But they came unstuck when "Chew" Ngam struck in the first over after lunch to get rid of opener Mark Richardson (46), caught behind by keeper Mark Boucher.

Pollock had No 3 batsman Mathew Sinclair (24) caught in the slips in the next over and New Zealand were suddenly 83 for three.

Ntini - who took the only wicket of the morning session when he surprised Adam Parore (10) with a sharp-rising delivery that launched into the shoulder of the bat and floated to Neil McKenzie at point - claimed two scalps in successive overs some 40 minutes before tea.

He bowled captain Stephen Fleming (14) with a yorker and then found the outside edge to have Nathan Astle (12) caught at second slip by Kallis.

Kallis finished off the mid-session pillage when he claimed the key scalp of Craig McMillan (4), caught by Klusener in the slips.

But Marshall - drafted into the side as a gamble at the expense of opener Craig Spearman - held out for nearly three hours as he put on 31 runs with Brooke Walker (17), 26 with Daryl Tuffey (8) and 25 with Shayne O'Connor (9).