South Africa vs. Australia, 1st Test: Day 4 Video Highlights, Scorecard, Report

Australia wrapped up victory over South Africa in style at Centurion, with Mitchell Johnson taking 12 wickets in the match to ensure a 281-run win.

South Africa, set a target of 482 for victory, were shot out inside a day for 200, with Johnson again the star of the show with figures of 5-59 in the innings.

The Proteas, ranked the world's best Test side, leave the match battered and bruised—literally, in several cases—while the Australians' extraordinary run, which began with a 5-0 Ashes victory earlier in the winter, shows no sign of stopping.

Michael Clarke came out to bat on Day 4 with plenty of time still in the game. But after 15 minutes in the middle and just two runs added to the score, the skipper declared the innings and decided to have a go at the South African's when Dale Steyn claimed the wicket of Shaun Marsh.

It made perfect sense: The pitch was misbehaving and South Africa looked nervous facing the Australian pace attack.

South Africa 2nd Innings	(1st Inns 206)	Australia 397 & 290-4 dec.
Total	for 10	200	(59.4 ovs)
Batsman	Dismissal	Bowler	Runs	Mins	Balls
Petersen	c Haddin	b Johnson	1	8	9
Smith	c Doolan	b Johnson	4	20	10
Amla	c S Marsh	b Harris	35	123	71
du Plessis	lbw	b Siddle	18	56	47
AB de Villiers	c Smith	b Johnson	48	150	90
Duminy	c Doolan	b Johnson	10	64	60
McLaren	c Haddin	b Johnson	6	18	19
Peterson		b Siddle	21	24	23
Philander	not out		26	40	18
Steyn	c Clarke	b Harris	3	12	8
M Morkel	run out (Lyon)		1	12	4
Extras	1nb 11w 10b 5lb	27
Bowler	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Bowler
Harris	12.4	5	35	2	Harris
Johnson	16.0	3	59	5	Johnson
Siddle	16.0	6	55	2	Siddle
Warner	2.0	0	3	0	Warner
Lyon	13.0	1	33	0	Lyon

Johnson struck in his first over, drawing an edge from Alviro Petersen, and again in his second, courtesy of a sensational catch from Alex Doolan at short leg to remove Graeme Smith.

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The writing was on the wall already. The middle order showed fight for the Proteas, but by now the pitch was also unhelpful.

Faf du Plessis' resistance ended when a Peter Siddle delivery kept low, while Hashim Amla survived a brute of an opening delivery from Johnson and passed 6,000 Test runs, but he was removed on 35.

JP Duminy was then the victim of another quite astonishing Doolan catch.

Just before tea, Ryan McLaren was rapped on the helmet by Johnson, surviving only long enough to fend a short ball to the wicketkeeper, while AB de Villiers, again serene and comfortable against the pace assault, holed out on 48 as others floundered.

Vernon Philander played a few shots down the order, but the game had long since gone.

The crowds had come out in force to support South Africa, but late in the afternoon, they had almost all ebbed away.

South Africa will have to hope that the scars of this crushing defeat fade equally quickly, but the nature of Morne Morkel's run out to lose the final wicket suggests that their minds have been scrambled.