Third Test live updates: ‘Disgraceful’ Australia’s last hope bamboozled in horror day
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Cummins has a run
It’s taken 41 balls but Pat Cummins is off the mark.
He eased a ball down to square leg off Gerald Coetzee and gets some ironic cheers from the crowd.
Then the next ball, Nathan Lyon hits one through mid-wicket for a single but they don’t take it.
Strange.
Green’s concentration breaks
Cameron Green is gone!
He tried to dance down the wicket but was bamboozled by the spin and bowled through the gate.
He goes for 27 off 110 balls.
“That’s perfect, literally, you won’t bowl a better off break than that,” caller Mark Nicholas said on SuperSport.
Game. Over.
Cameron Green is bowled out. SuperSport
Nicholas notes Australia has not been bowled out for under 100 in two consecutive Tests in 90 years.
We have another review
Simon Harmer causing havoc here.
Pat Cummins hasn’t played a shot and been hit on the pads.
South Africa appeals but it’s given not out.
Temba Bavuma reviews but it’s going nowhere near hitting the stumps. Cummins survives.
To be a fly in the dressing room
Right now Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood have the pads on ready to go out next.
Do we reckon there’s much chat between them and the batters right now?
Cricket’s back after lunch too, by the way.
Warner: ‘Is there a wine tour this afternoon?’
David Warner has gone from the top rope at lunch.
“I’m just upset, it’s terrible, it’s un Australian, there’s no fight whatsoever, it’s disgraceful ... it’s on the line and this is the way they’re playing, it’s deplorable,” he said on Fox Cricket.
“The batters have let the bowlers down all series, yes Renshaw showed fight in the first Test but I think the batters have been disgraceful.
“I don’t know what headspace they’re in at the moment. Is there a wine tour this afternoon? I have no idea.”
Mark Waugh was equally as disappointed with what he saw.
“You’ve just got to throw the ball down the other end at the moment. That was a terrible two hours of batting, that was immature,” he said.
Kerry O’Keeffe added the attitude from the Australians in the morning suggested this was never going to end well.
“It was mindless, the tactics, shot selection and turning down of singles,” he said.
“There was a sense of doom today ... the way they walked to the crease, everything was negative.”
The Proteas are celebrating
Mitchell Starc looks like he might be out caught at bat pad!
The South Africans are convinced but there’s going to be a check for a bump ball.
Well the replay shows there was definitely no bump ball. He’s hit the ball straight into his pad off the inside edge and Starc is gone for a 25-ball duck.
The score is now 7-60.
Lunch has been called too.
South Africa wants the rugby
The fans might get their wish with Stormers vs Ulster starting this afternoon.
Fans at Newlands. SuperSport
Respect on the Simon Harmer name
Starc dropped!
Simon Harmer’s luck has ended!
The off-spinner grabbed the edge of Mitchell Starc and it went off the gloves of Ryan Rickelton straight to first slip.
The catch couldn’t be taken though, it would’ve required unbelievable reactions.
Green farming the strike
With over two sessions left, Cameron Green is now trying to keep the strike.
He hit a delivery from Gerald Coetzee to deep point and stayed at the crease.
The commentary box can’t make sense of it with so long left in the day.
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