Proteas looking for big win

South Africa were primed for one of their biggest wins in Tests as New Zealand were steamrollered on day three of the first Test in Johannesburg. Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla hit centuries in a superb stand of 330 before the Proteas declared on 422-3.

And New Zealand, needing a record 531 for victory, reached stumps on 57-3.

Injuries and illness added to New Zealand's woe, with Shane Bond, Jacob Oram and Michael Papps all requiring treatment during Saturday's play. Stephen Fleming (bruised forearm) was another player in the wars. But he was forced to open the batting with the sick Papps absent from the dressing-room.

Bond broke down with a worrying abdominal strain after bowling four overs, and Oram also limped out of the attack after removing Kallis for 186. The brilliant South African was three short of his Test best score of 189 when edging Oram to Brendon McCullum to end a 262-ball effort - his 28th Test century.

Amla (176no) had been first to his century, only his second in Tests, when hitting a leg-glance off Chris Martin for four in the morning session.