South Africa vs Australia

LIVE: Aussies fire despite 'rubbish' start after big toss gamle; review confusion strikes.

“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 ...

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.

CRR: 3.07. Batting, R(B), 4s, 6s, SR. Travis Head*, 6(18), 1, 0, 33.33. Steven Smith, 10(22), 0, 0, 45.45. Bowling, O, M, R, W. Anrich Nortje*, 3, 1, 15, 1.

It's a low full toss, asking to be punished, and Smith drives it crisply. This is back of a length just outside off, Smith tries forcing through the off-side, and it cuts in off the seam to find the inside edge 26.3 Ngidi to Smith, no run, chopped back off a thick inside edge, and only just misses leg stump!

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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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss Saturday and made the rare decision to bowl at the Gabba in his team's first test ...

He had Erwee (10) brilliantly caught low at gully by Cameron Green and trapped Zondo lbw on the last ball of the over. But his next over, the fourth, was a maiden. And Starc cashed in on the build up of pressure when he had South Africa captain Dean Elgar (3) gloving a catch down legside to wicketkeeper Alex Carey on the first ball of the fifth over with the total at 12.

RSA - 152. AUS - 137/3 (31.1) ... Last wkt: Usman Khawaja c (sub)Harmer b Nortje 11(26) - 27/3 in 9.2 ov. ... 31.1 Rabada to Smith, no run, that's a cracker! So ...

Full delivery just outside off, Smith looks to defend and it nips past the edge Nortje dishes out a fiery short ball around off to make life difficult for the nightwatchman It goes between the bat and pad, and crashes into the top of middle. He came in with the score at 27/3, and took the game on to deflate the South African attack. Rabada just needs one ball at Boland to send him packing. South Africa need a big morning tomorrow to stay in the contest.