South Africa vs Australia

The real summer of cricket gets under way in Brisbane as Australia, fresh off a series sweep over the West Indies, take on the Proteas in what is always an ...

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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Both Starc and Cummins were wayward in their opening overs, but Starc got the breakthrough with a ball that jumped up towards Elgar’s ribs. Cummins is recovered from the slight quad injury which limited him in the second innings of the first Test against the Windies in Perth, and forced him to miss the second in Adelaide. It was a talking point all week and it looks set to continue to be for the rest of the summer after the trophy was unveiled for Australia’s Test series against South Africa on Friday. Pat Cummins said there was no doubt in his mind about returning from injury to play in the First Test against South Africa — coming at the expense of Michael Neser. One said the series will be known as the “Cheeseboard Cup” and the loser will have to provide the platter during the lunch break. One wrote: “First thoughts are that it looks kinda lame, and honestly there should be a perpetual trophy between Australia and South Africa for bilateral tests considering the quality of the competition in years past”. The umpire’s decision was challenged by Zondo, but the DRS showed the delivery was a perfect length and was heading on to strike the top of the stumps. Pat Cummins took the first wicket with a perfect line and length ball that left Rassie van der Dussen in two minds of how to play the bouncing ball. Three wickets in 12 balls saw the South African top order demolished with all three of Australia’s quicks grabbing a wicket in the opening hour of play. South Africa’s top order was completely wiped out on the green Gabba deck to be in a world of hurt. Welcome to news.com.au’s live coverage from the opening day of the First Test against South Africa in Brisbane. Australia has demolished the South African top order in an hour of carnage at the Gabba to leave the tourists at breaking point.

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Coverage is set to begin at 7.20pm ET / 4.20pm PT just in time for the first over of the day. Its coverage starts at 5.50am IST on Sony Sports Ten 2 just in time for the start of play. South Africa, on the other hand, have their full assault of impressive quicks: Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen. Captain Pat Cummins returns to the Australia XI after sitting out the second West Indies Test, but fellow seamer Josh Hazlewood has been unable to recover from his side strain in time. Prices on the latter start at $25 a month and carry Fox's full spectrum of live sports. Coverage starts in the early hours of each morning at 2.10am. Alternatively, you can add it as a channel to an existing cable plan (e.g. This gives you all the BT Sport channels - including coverage of the Test cricket, Premier League and European football, Champions Cup rugby, UFC, boxing and more - for just £25 a month. Prices for SonyLiv start at ₹299 a month or ₹599 annually. Australia v South Africa is being shown by BT Sport 3 in the UK. Rassie van der Dussen returns after missing out on the series with England earlier in 2022, slotting in it at first drop to replace Keegan Petersen who misses out with a torn hamstring. It's a series that sees the two top ranked teams on the ICC World Test Championship table go head-to-head.

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Bavuma and Verreynne put together an unbroken half-century to limit damage in frenetic morning session on a green Gabba deck.

Bavuma could have been found short of his ground when he defended to gully and appeared to want the run with Verreynne halfway down the pitch. But Starc had Elgar in his next over when the South African captain tried to nudge a 140kph rib-tickler through to Carey. He had Erwee caught low down by Cameron Green in the gully and in the same over, had Khaya Zondo given out lbw to a delivery that rose on him and hit him on the back pad. With Rassie van der Dussen new to the crease and back from an injury, South Africa seemed stuck. Starc thought he had Elgar in his second over when the South African captain jammed his bat into the turf as the ball slid under it and Alex Carey caught it. Mitchell Starc and Cummins were guilty of bowling a little too short and struggled to find their lines early on, but still caused problems for the openers.

Australia's Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took early wickets to leave South Africa reeling on the first day of the first Test between the ...

Lyon ended Verreynne's 96-ball defiance in the next over when Smith took a sharp catch at slip and also had Anrich Nortje (0) caught in the 46th. Lyon returned 3-14 from eight overs, troubling the lower order, with Starc collecting 3-41 from 14, narrowly missing out on his 300th Test wicket when Travis Head put down a sharp, juggling catch at short leg. He was the first Australian captain to do that in 22 years since Stephen Waugh led Australia to an innings victory against West Indies in 2000.

Over-by-over report: Play continues at the Gabba after Australia ended day one on top. Join Angus Fontaine for updates.

Nortje’s first ball of his 10th over is on the button but the second strays down leg side and Travis Head slides it off his hip to the fine leg boundary. With a typically cavalier Travis Head in tow, he put on 113 in 23 overs and wrestled back the ascendency. Green is off the mark, nudging Rabada down the ground for a single off the first while Head misses the chance to blaze two half-volleys through the gaps, finding the field each time. The third is on an off side line but Head skips inside it and clips it close to the rope for more runs. Conversely, Starc loves to live by the Lance Cairns credo of ‘give it a heave’ but is watchful against the speed and guile of Nortje… He moved late and pushed hard to a fast angled ball in the corridor of uncertainty and got a healthy edge which flew into the slips where it was juggled, ballooning high, before being pouched by Sarel Erwee. He flinched at the first two and swung hard and hopeful at the third to give Nortje an easy catch and Rabada his first scalp of the day. The hackles are up and he’s running in hard, albeit to a stubbornly defensive field. Captain Elgar banished him to the deep to cool his heels awhile and now he’s back. Kagiso Rabada is the leader of this Proteas attack but he was loose and expensive in his first spell. He comes around the wicket and bends like a safety pin to get the ball skything past Starc’s stubble. It’s the first caught and bowled in his 50 Test wickets and it’s one the Proteas needed.

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A few balls later, he does depart after he mistimes a pull which comes off the toe of the bat. The umpire gives him out, but Cummins immediately calls for a DRS and the TV replays clearly show it hits his arm guard, forcing the original decision to be overturned. Rabada and South Africa think they have sent Cummins back to the pavilion for a golden duck after a vicious short ball cannons into his glove area and balloons up to Bevuma at point for the easy catch.

Australia loses its last five wickets before lunch, including Travis Head for 92, on day two of the first Test against South Africa. Follow live.

Some late out-swing to start and it spits out to backward point. Must be hoping height or an inside edge saves him, but that looked like an absolutely purple stone fruit. He leaves his first ball and gets whacked on the thigh pad. Great hands by Green. Just missing the top of off. Another edge taken by Green! Swinging down the line of the stumps, but not given. Bowling across Rassie van der Dussen, swinging it back through a wide open and pretty rusty gate to clatter into the stumps. Well chased and stopped by Marnus Labuschagne. Starc pitches full and Bavuma punches through cover for three. And the batters may not mind because Scott Boland is just lurking. He will prefer it up the other end I'd imagine.

Australia has claimed a dominant position early on day two of their opening Test against South Africa, quickly moving past the tourist's first innings total ...

Only for Travis Head to come up with the only blot on his copybook yesterday. “It doesn’t matter who you are: your job as a batsman is to make runs. It was there to be hit, but Green gets the thick edge. It is not easy for the modern-day player to keep making these adjustments.” “He has found it tough at the start of the series. But Starc’s stay in the middle is over. “The signs weren’t good there with the technique. He’s started promisingly, with a pair of boundaries against Rabada. It’s no longer bright and sunny, and the new conditions should play into the hands of the Australian seamers. Lyon had a superb impact in the first innings, picking up three wickets in his eight overs. with two wickets remaining, and Alex Carey the main man. This is a far more intriguing match than one where the top orders of each team motor their way towards 500.

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not at all," Ian Smith says in commentary. "I thought both teams would bat better than they have." "Never for one second did I think we would be packing up the trucks and the suitcases after day two...

Welcome to news.com.au's live coverage of Day 2 of the First Test between Australia and South Africa in Brisbane.

It is no different than a dirty pair of shoes or a bat for a season and a half and the face is all dirty. It has just enough for the bowler to test the batsman. It is a piece of your equipment that you would feel more comfortable with that than playing in the same baggy green and changing it. Aussie cricketers used to be awarded a new cap for each tour and there is no rule for players not to get a replacement from Cricket Australia. Closer replays showed there was contact and it was confirmed by the Snicko technology. I will get the front bit done, not sure about the top.” This at the Gabba isn't unplayable but a very difficult pitch to bat on. Definitely questions need to be asked about any pitch that results in a 2 day test match but this Gabba one didn't seem that unplayable. Green fell for 18 from 19 balls when his cover drive ended up flying to third slip. It isn't kicking off a length. A proper, spicy Andhra curry that is edible but leaves you gasping.....— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) “In my opinion, it started too green.

Australia scores a six-wicket win after shakily chasing down 34 runs in the last session of day two of the first Test at the Gabba.

Exquisite timing from Smith. Lovely square drive from Smith past point for another boundary. By Simon Smale