Proteas need 282 runs to win World Test Championship
It ended a partnership of 59 of the 10th wicket between Hazlewood and fellow fast bowler Mitchell Starc, who finished the innings unbeaten on 58.
Australia's captain Pat Cummins said on Thursday night another '30 to 40 runs' on top of the 144/8 his side had overnight would allow him to set attacking fields when SA batted for the final time.
Kagiso Rabada picked up his ninth wicket of the match in the third over of the morning trapping, Nathan Lyon lbw for two. But try as he — and every other Proteas bowler — might thereafter, there was no breaching the defences of Starc and Hazlewood.
Starc, dropped by Marco Jansen in the last over on Thursday night when he had 14, had shared a vital partnership of 61 for the eight wicket with Alex Carey on Friday.
His 11th Test fifty, brought up with a thick edge that flew over the slips for four, also took Australia's second innings total past 200.
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