South Africa v West Indies: Hosts win series, Alviro Petersen retires
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South Africa beat West Indies by eight wickets in Cape Town, winning the third and final Test and series 2-0.
The home side started the final day 9-1, need another 115 runs for victory, and Dean Elgar as they made their objective 60.
After winning the first test and the second took South Africa created the series to retain the first rank test.
The two teams will play three Twenty20 matches and five one-day internationals before the World Cup in February a day.
A collapse of the West Indies on the fourth day, when the tourists crashed 182-3 to 215 all out, left South Africa only 124 needed for victory.
It was slow going as the Proteas failed slopes of the first 44 balls of the day achieve, and Faf du Plessis 14 then fell shortly after the hour mark.
South Africa captain Hashim Amla made sure that there were no more alarms, but when he scored not to accompany Elgar at the end 38.
Petersen Glamorgan (2011), Essex (2012) and played Somerset (2013 and 2014) in the county cricket
Meanwhile Proteas opens Alviro Petersen, who after scoring 42 in the first was for a duck in the second innings, retiring from international cricket after the match.
After his debut in 2006, the right-hander, 34, appeared in 36 tests, 21 one-day internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals.
His best test score, 182, came against England at Headingley in 2012.
"I think that at 34, it's time for me to move my career," he said.
"I intend to focus school play district and franchise cricket for the next three years and also on my foundation and my cricket."
Petersen spells in the English county of Somerset Cricket with Glamorgan and Essex had its departure from the international scene opens up the possibility for him to return to the Kolpak player Cricket County.
Kolpak contracts signed by foreign players, with a gap in EU law in order to avoid counting the quota of foreign players per club.
