New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- On a Rain-hit final day at St George's Park, Australia looked set to escape with a draw powered by Travis Head's century and Scott Boland's marathon 166-ball vigil. Then Wiaan Mulder took the ball. The South African all-rounder bowled with the keeper up, nipped one back to rattle Boland's stumps, removed Head with a rising delivery that the left-hander chopped on, and later castled Pat Cummins. Those three wickets broke the last pieces of Australian resistance and helped South Africa complete a famous innings-and-31-run win to level the series.

Born Pieter Willem Adriaan Mulder on 19 February 1998 in Johannesburg, the 28-year-old right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler has become a key balance option f...