WTC final talking points: Kevin Pietersen amazed by 'very strange' Lord's trend as batters fail again

When Australians awoke to check the score from day two, there might have been a rub of the eyes to see it twice.

It was in a way, the mirror image of day one. Fourteen wickets fell and it was collapses galore.

Kagiso Rabada once again dominated with ball in hand and Pat Cummins surpassed Bob Willis for best figures as a captain in a Test at Lord's.

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Cummins also became the eighth Aussie bowler to take 300 wickets in Test matches.

The poor batting, or supreme bowling, was a major focus throughout the day.

Here's the talking points.

Just what on earth is going on?

Across the first two days, 28 wickets have been taken.

This Test is meant to be the best against the best but what's come from the bat hasn't shown it.

Beau Webster top scored in the first innings with 72 and even he was lucky to get to that after South Africa didn't review a not out call.

Kevin Pietersen was bemused when Australia were 7-113 in the final session of day two.

"A lot of Test matches have been watched by us sitting up here and we can't really get our heads around what's happened and how these wickets have fallen as quickly as they've fallen," he said on Amazon Prime.

"We've not seen anyone come in here and play an innings of any power, any placement ... very, very strange for Lord's."

Maybe it's a case of preparation.

Australia's last Test match was in February against Sri Lanka and it's the same for South Africa, who last played Pakistan that month.

We know Australia take a little while to warm up, evident when they were thrashed in the first Test against India last summer.

Even the experts are stumped. But all we do know is it's been an even contest, and that's an ideal outcome in a final.

Aussie rookie's major flaw exposed

Beau Webster may have a problem.

The all-rounder has been sound with the bat for Australia in his short career so far but it appears South Africa have picked up a weakness.

They've continued to angle the ball into his pads and it's been with great success.

He should've been out on 8 after an lbw shout was given not out but shown on replay to be out.

That delivery was identical to how he was given out in the second innings.

Lungi Ngidi speared the ball in between bat and pad and he was trapped in front.

Webster reviewed but it was to no avail, he was plumb in front.

"Wobble seam doing its magic yet again," Dinesh Karthik said on commentary.

"If you watched the coverage yesterday you would've seen Nasser Hussain speaking about how he goes across and the ball that nips back in is a very good option to him."

Matthew Hayden pinpoints the problem with Marnus

The buzz word with Marnus Labuschange has been intent.

He looked good at the start of the second innings when he had 7 off 12 balls.

That became 15 off 29 before all of a sudden it was 16 off 42 when Khawaja departed.

When Labuschange fell, he'd soaked up 64 balls for 22 runs.

It was an innings that showed promise but didn't deliver.

Legendary opener Matthew Hayden was critical of Labuschagne's technique when reviewing the dismissal after he was caught behind in the same fashion as the first innings.

"It's been 24 months of Marnus Labuschagne being in a very similar position," he said on commentary.

"I'd like to see Marnus Labuschagne's caught behinds in his first few seasons of Test match cricket versus the last two... 33 per cent of the time, he's been caught to the wicketkeeper.

"The reality of it is, when you go to his dismissals it's always very similar patterns of his footwork."

The coverage then showed Labuschagne has been caught by the keeper 20 times and caught by others on 40 occasions. As for the other major modes of dismissal, lbw is 15 and bowled is 11.

"What he's actually doing is he's failing beyond his initial prompt movement to get into a batting position where he's addressing the ball with the head anywhere near in line with the ball," Hayden continued.

"When he sets up, he's got his little shuffle, back foot first and then that shuffle across the crease and then he doesn't go any further so what happens is his head is a mile away from the ball ... you cannot throw a punch if your target is too far away from you."