Proteas clinch first Test

It took the tourists just 40 minutes to wrap up the win as AB de Villiers weighed in with two fours for 19 not out while Mark Boucher was unbeaten on five as the Proteas finished 208 for five.

Graeme Smith's 104-ball effort and Hashim Amla's 46, meant the Proteas finished day three on 178 for four, just 27 runs short of their victory target of 205.

The hosts had held their own in the previous two days but Sunday belonged almost exclusively to the tourists, who bowled out Bangladesh for just 182 in their second innings before lunch.

Jacques Kallis took five wickets and Mark Boucher reclaimed the world record for most Test dismissals by a wicketkeeper as the home side capitulated.

Boucher took his 417th Test victim when he caught Mushfiqur Rahim for two off the bowling of Kallis, who finished with figures of five for 30.

South Africa's second innings started well with openers Neil McKenzie and Smith putting on 52 for the first wicket but the former eventually perished when he was caught at square leg by Habibul Bashar off the bowling of Shahadat Hossain for 26.

Smith's stubborn knock ended with his side on 125 when he played down the wrong line to a Mohammad Rafique delivery and was given out leg before wicket.

Amla followed 19 runs later, edging a Rafique delivery to Mashrafe Bin Mortaza at first slip. And when Kallis failed to follow up his earlier heroics with the ball, falling to Hossain for seven, Bangladesh sensed an upset.

But Ashwell Prince and De Villiers guided South Africa through to the close without further alarm after bad light brought an end to the day's play.