South Africa vs Australia

2022 - 12 - 16

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Australia v South Africa: first Test, day one – live (The Guardian)

Over-by-over report: The two teams renew their Test rivalry at the Gabba in Brisbane for the first time since 2018. Join Geoff Lemon for updates.

3rd over: South Africa 12-0 (Elgar 3, Erwee 0) There’s a half-hearted invocation of the third umpire to start the over, as Elgar squeezes a bump ball from the toe of his bat into the ground and then to slip. Those of Australia and South Africa, one of the strong rivalries in the small world of Test cricket, in their first series since the sandpaper business in 2018. Knocks him over completely, after pitching outside the line of leg stump, and he gets a leg bye. Back of a length and angling down from a right-arm line around the wicket. There are representatives of the forces on the ground with him, and a minute’s silence follows as people remove their hats in a poignantly old-fashioned gesture. Erwee is another left-hander, and he gets a short enough length to knock the ball off his hip, saved at midwicket by Head. First really good delivery of the innings, it spits off a length and zips past the outside edge as Erwee responds with a movement that is more flinch than stroke. Labuschagne puts in a great chase, a great dive, a tap back to save the boundary… His classic range, on a line of about three and a half stumps, a length to draw the batter forward while still leaving time to move away, and enough movement off the deck to take the edge. Fourth of the over, Erwee has to play given the line, skews it away off the edge, and Green uses his entire eight-foot frame to lunge away in the gully and snaffle it. Past the outside edge the next ball, Erwee dragging the bat inside the line, but the ball was a touch too short and thus doesn’t take the edge. Bavuma knocks a single to the off side.

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“I just feel as though there’s obviously a lot of external distractions going on with David Warner at the moment. It’s probably going to be a bit on the slow side to start with on day one. He’s been a little bit unlucky with some of the dismissals, but he hasn’t quite looked the same David Warner as we’re used to. “A very thick layer of green, live grass on the pitch,” Mike Hussey said in his Fox Cricket pitch report. that’s a victory for the tajectory that Cummins bowls. Just two balls later, it was all happening again with Scott Boland trapping Khaya Zondo in front for a duck. A bit of a bonus for the Aussies there but they’ll take it. [“They’ve bowled about 18 balls and I think they’ve got about one in the right area,” Mark Waugh said. I’d like to see him come out and really assert his dominance and be aggressive. That’s a big wicket.” “That was McGrath-like,” Kerry O’Keeffe said on Fox Cricket. “It may have straightened a little ...

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Starc has drawn an enquiry from behind the wicket, Elgar playing at one outside off. At the same time, Erwee doesn’t mind getting on the front foot, hitting another boundary down the ground. Good looking start from the Victorian as he is on the money straight away and beats the bat. Erwee with a loose flash at a full ball, squirts away off the outside edge and Cameron Green’s giant mits at gully all too happy to hang onto that. Then helps him up over backward point from another ball dug in and it goes all the way for six. In light of losing four wickets in the opening hour of play, South Africa’s batting has hardly set the world alight in recent times.

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Lucky not to be called a wide quite frankly. He's bowling to a right-hander for the first time this morning, and whoa! Tight single, but one on the board for the opener, which will allow him to breathe a bit easier. Sarel Erwee is poking outside off and narrowly misses edging through to Carey. Tough to get any wood on that. Could be a busy morning for the Aussie wicketkeeper at this rate. Cummins bowls on a yorker length, but out wide, and Bavuma chops down on it. Three slips, a gully, a point, oh my a mixup out there as Kyle Verreynne goes half way down the pitch, is sent back, the throw from gully was to the strikers end and they'll run a single on the overthrow. Lovely shot to deep backward point. Perhaps he's slipping a bit - too short those last two balls. There's real movement out there from Boland off the deck, with the angle, and it's causing these batters all sorts of issues. Oh that's a ripper of a ball, coming back at Verreynne and chopping him in half.

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