Australia v South Africa Test, day 2: Live cricket scores, how to stream, Mitchell Starc 300th wicket

Travis Head fell wanting a well-deserved century as Australia constructed their lead in heat situations on the Gabba, however issues stay in regards to the type of David Warner – and his worrying stoop.

Australian legend Mark Waugh believes Warner wants to search out some runs in a rush, as a result of because it stands his place within the Australian crew within the close to future is ‘unsure’.

TEA: PROTEAS CIRCLE THE DRAIN AFTER ANOTHER HORROR SESSION

Let’s begin with the positives for South Africa: they’ve worn out Australia’s first innings lead.

However solely simply. They’ve reached 66 at tea, drawing them degree with Australia – which implies David Warner and Usman Khawaja must bat once more, probably later this afternoon.

The dangerous information? South Africa have as soon as once more crumbled, shedding seven wickets.

That’s 12 wickets for the day – to go together with the 15 that fell yesterday – bringing into query the standard of the Gabba inexperienced deck. But in addition sharpening the concentrate on a very abysmal batting show by a really, very dangerous touring facet.

Solely Temba Bavuma (29) and Khaya Zondo (14 not out) have offered any semblance of resistence, whereas Scott Boland, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc have all picked up two wickets every – with Nathan Lyon snaring one.

3.55PM: SOUTH AFRICA ON THE ROPES

The tip is nigh, for South Africa and for this Check.

Mitchell Starc has a second, and No.301, with a easy set-up to eliminate Keshav Maharaj – out feathering an opportunity to Alex Carey.

Maharaj was in every single place, and almost chopped on two deliveries prior, earlier than a botched defensive stroke takes the sting to Carey.

Maharaj added 16 runs, and has introduced South Africa to inside two runs of constructing Australia bat once more.

However South Africa are 7-64… and nicely into the tail. This Check is throughout bar the shouting, and we aren’t even into the sixth session!

3.34PM: BOLAND GOES BANG-BANG!

One brings two! Scott Boland doubles down after Nathan Lyon’s breakthrough, and removes South Africa’s first-innings hero Kyle Verreynne for a two-ball duck – after which Marco Jansen in the identical over.

Firstly, a spicy supply, angled in however seaming away from the fitting hander, and Verreynne merely slices an edge to Steve Smith at second slip.

He doesn’t drop many, and he has no bother right here. One other brutal blow for the vacationers, who’re firmly on observe for an enormous defeat right now.

Two balls later and it’s Marco Jansen on his manner along with his off-stump pegged again following a gem of a supply.

South Africa are 6-48…. and with an extended tail. At this stage the one query actually is whether or not they can bat lengthy sufficient to push this Check into a 3rd day.

3.29PM: LYON ROARS TO BREAK KEY PARTNERSHIP

One other good tactical transfer from Pat Cummins, bringing Nathan Lyon into the assault to shake issues up – and it really works nearly instantly.

In his third over, Lyon will get severe buy on an enormous off-spinner to beat Temba Bavuma’s defences and get the approval of the umpire.

Bavuma goes upstairs, and it has turned a LONG manner, however balltracker helps the on-field resolution with the ball simply clipping leg stump, knocking Bavuma over for 29.

That’s sufficient. And it’s sufficient to finish the 42-run partnership between Bavuma and Zondo.

That’s an enormous wicket, as a result of this pair had been quietly, and patiently, rebuilding South Africa’s battered innings. Because it stands, they nonetheless require an extra 19 runs to make Australia bat once more.

That’s wanting probably, however this pair actually wants to succeed in tea with out additional harm.

3.15PM: CUMMINS TURNS TO LYON AS PROTEAS FIGHT BACK

It’s sluggish going for South Africa, however they’re doing a superb job of combating again in opposition to the Australian onslaught.

Bavuma and Zondo have added 35 runs – and battled thorugh 13 overs, now – to only take the sting out of Australia’s bloodlust, momentarily at the very least.

It’s sufficient for Pat Cummins to throw the ball to Nathan Lyon. Lyon had an outstanding affect within the first innings, selecting up three wickets in his eight overs.

The ball continues to be doing a lot for the quicks, however because the late Shane Warne used to say if it seams, it spins.

South Africa have progressed to 3-40, lowering Australia’s first innings result in 26.

2.55PM: PITCH UNDER FIRE AS TWO-DAY TEST LOOMS

Questions have been raised in regards to the high quality of the pitch getting used on the Gabba this weekend, and whether or not it’s as much as Check normal.

Gamers had been greeted to a inexperienced monster on Saturday morning when the covers had been pulled again, prompting Australian Pat Cummins to interrupt from custom and bowl first in Brisbane.

It’s nearly extraordinary, however his resolution was justified as 15 wickets fell on day one.

Midway by way of the center session on day two, and an extra eight wickets have fallen – leaving the prospect of a two-day Check on the playing cards until South Africa can present a little bit of defensive resolve.

So is the pitch guilty?

“This pitch will come beneath scrutiny if this match is over right now, or by lunch tomorrow,” stated Kerry O’Keeffe on Fox Cricket.

“Is it too bowler-friendly? You would need to say sure, from what we’ve seen.”

Nobody likes to see a match when one self-discipline fully dominates the opposite, however from a private viewpoint I truly fairly prefer to see the batsmen should work laborious for his or her runs. This can be a much more intriguing match than one the place the highest orders of every crew motor their manner in the direction of 500.

And it makes Travis Head’s 92 much more spectacular when stacked up in opposition to the powerful situations on provide.

2.35PM: PROTEAS BATTLING AGAINST AUSSIE BOA CONSTRICTOR

That is powerful going for South Africa – they’ve waited till the twelfth over earlier than posting their first boundary of the innings.

It comes by way of the bat of Temba Bavuma, who batted very nicely within the first innings and would dearly love to finish his century drought – he’s gone 82 innings with out a Check ton.

However it’s not going to be straightforward. As a result of Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc are giving nothing away in a brutal show of economical and deadly quick bowling.

Throw in Scott Boland, who’s nearly to affix the assault, and also you’ve bought a three-headed boa constrictor that’s squeezing the life out of South Africa’s batting.

2.15PM: SOUTH AFRICA IN DIRE COLLAPSE

The 2-day Check is on! Cameron Inexperienced takes an absolute screamer to take away Sarel Erwee for simply 3.

Pat Cummins has been bowling hearth to start out the session, and places the ball in a clumsy spot for Erwee who tries to drag the bat out of the best way – but it surely flies off the sting in the direction of Inexperienced at gully.

It’s excessive above his head, however Inexperienced is a big and he does beautifully to drag within the powerful probability.

South Africa…. wow, they’re 3-5. Nonetheless 61 runs away from making Australia bat once more. Sydney Thunder followers watching this could be having flashbacks to Friday evening’s appalling capitulation.

2.05PM: THE MOST WORRYING SIGN FOR SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa are in a gap proper now. Two wickets down, nonetheless trailing by 63 runs on Australia’s first innings… and issues might but worsen.

How? Effectively, the climate has turned in Brisbane. It’s now not shiny and sunny, and the brand new situations ought to play into the palms of the Australian seamers.

And that features Scott Boland, for whom Check cricket looks as if little one’s play.

1.50PM: HAVE AUSSIE QUICKS BEEN SET UP TO FAIL?

Have Australia’s gamers – and quick bowlers particularly – been set as much as fail this sequence?

That’s the query being requested by former Check batsman Simon Katich, who pointed to the accidents suffered by quick bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood as a sign that the dearth of red-ball cricket previous to the summer season Checks had left Australia’s stars unprepared.

Cummins suffered a minor quad criticism within the opening Check of the summer season, in opposition to the West Indies in Perth, which dominated him out of final week’s Adelaide Check.

Hazlewood, for the second summer season in a row, has picked up a sidestrain which has compelled him to overlook two Checks already – and racing to clock to be match for Boxing Day in Melbourne.

“That they had no preparation, four-day cricket in a Sheffield Defend main in. Then, Hazlewood will get injured, Pat Cummins will get injured. I don’t assume it’s a coincidence,” Katich advised Channel 7.

“They had been underdone bodily.”

Katich added that the struggles from opener David Warner and Cameron Inexperienced may be attributed to a scarcity of preparation for Australia’s premier cricketers.

“Then we’ve seen a bit bit with the batting, Cameron Inexperienced had restricted preparation with red-ball cricket,” Katcih defined, previous to Inexperienced’s 18-run cameo on Sunday.

“He has discovered it powerful at the beginning of the sequence. (And) David Warner getting out for a first-ball duck. He performed white- ball cricket, no Sheffield Defend.

“It’s setting the gamers as much as fail at instances the best way the schedule is. It’s not straightforward for the modern-day participant to maintain making these changes.”

LUNCH: AUSSIE QUICKS RUIN SOUTH AFRICAN TOP ORDER

A two day Check is firmly on the playing cards in Brisbane, because the utter carnage continues on the ‘inexperienced mamba’ Gabba pitch.

Mitchell Starc claimed his three hundredth Check wicket after Pat Cummins struck the primary blow, to depart South Africa 2-3 at lunch on day two and trailing Australia by 63 runs.

Australia themselves had been dismissed cheaply for simply 218 with half an hour to go earlier than lunch, and all indicators counsel the low-scoring contest could possibly be over sooner moderately than later.

The under-siege Proteas batsmen are beneath huge stress to construct partnerships and attempt to flip a deficit right into a aggressive lead.

Travis Head fell within the 90s for the second time this summer season – out for 92 after a ferocious spell from Proteas’ demon Marco Jansen.

The left-arm Jansen had already claimed the wicket of Cameron Inexperienced in the identical over, and struck once more two balls later to ship Head packing.

Alex Carey remained not out 22, however ran out of batting companions after Starc, Cummins and Nathan Lyon got here and went shortly on a bowlers’ pitch.

– BEN HORNE

1.15pm: STARC JOINS 300 CLUB

And that’s a chunk of historical past for Mitchell Starc – he cleans up Rassie van der Dussen with a gem of a supply, swinging by way of the gate and crashing into center and off.

“You’ll be able to’t hit that,” says Allan Border on Fox Cricket.

“That’s a hell of a supply.”

Van der Dussen goes for a duck, and boy oh boy are South Africa in bother… They’re 2-3, with lunch quick approaching, and nonetheless path by 63 runs.

Starc turns into the seventh Australian bowler to take 300 Check wickets, becoming a member of Warne, McGrath, Lillee, Lyon, Johnson and Lee.

It’s an exceptional achievement, and he’s not completed by any stretch.

1.05PM: CUMMINS STRIKES EARLY BLOW

Oh boy, there actually is not any let-up on this Check. 4 balls into his first over and Pat Cummins has struck, snaring the huge wicket of South African skipper Dean Elgar for two.

It’s a gorgeous supply, nipping again off the seam to beat the bat of Elgar and crash into his entrance pad.

Elgar opts for a overview, hoping for a miracle, however balltracker confirms his dismissal by way of umpire’s name – with the ball predicted to clip the bails.

That’s an enormous blow for South Africa, who’re 1-2 and nonetheless dealing with an enormous job to wipe out Australia’s first innings lead.

12.50pm: AUSTRALIA ALL OUT FOR 218, LEAD OF 66

Australia’s innings is wrapped up earlier than lunch – all out for 218, with a lead of 66.

Nathan Lyon is the final man to perish, gone for a four-ball duck after chipping a Kagiso Rabada supply again over the bowler’s head – the place it’s nicely taken by Rassie van der Dussen.

Alex Carey is left unbeatne on 22, whereas the majority of the harm was completed by Travis Head who fell agonisingly wanting a sixth Check century. He fell for 92.

A lead of 66 will not be as many as Australia might need hoped they’d have of their locker after bowling South Africa for 152 yesterday, however runs have been laborious to return by on this wicket and each one is important.

There’ll be a brief burst earlier than the lunch break, after a 10-minute changeover.

12.40PM: CUMMINS GONE FOR A DUCK

Effectively, that didn’t final lengthy. Pat Cummins – given a reprieve after being given out first ball – survives simply two extra deliveries earlier than throwing his wicket away.

Cummins swipes at a brief ball from Rabada, and misimes his pull – skying it to provide a regulation probability to Nortje who tracks again to mid-on.

Australia lead by 62. I feel South Africa would’ve taken that kind of a first-innings deficit at the beginning of play right now.

12.35PM: WICKET! STARC FALLS TO FREAK CATCH

What a CATCH! Lungi Ngidi has taken a belter of a caught-and-bowled to take away the damaging Mitchell Starc for 14.

Australia’s lead is now 61… with two wickets remaining, and Alex Carey the primary man. Clearly Pat Cummins is aggressive with the bat, so there’s nonetheless runs available for Australia’s tail if they will cling round with Carey.

However Starc’s keep within the center is over. He pops up a low return providing to Ngidi, an enormous man it have to be stated, however the fast is ready to get down low and get his huge palms beneath the prospect close to his ankles.

That’s a very spectacular take and provides South Africa a much-needed increase.

Cummins almost goes for a golden duck – given out caught within the gully, however he instantly opinions and the choice is overturned because it’s come off his arm guard moderately than the glove.

12.20PM: AUSTRALIA PASS 200 AS LEAD GROWS

After a flurry of pleasure, care of a double-wicket over to Marco Jansen, Australia has bought again into the groove this morning.

With Alex Carey and Mitchell Starc main the cost now, Australia has moved previous 200 with three wickets in hand – and a first-innings lead of fifty.

How a lot can the Australian tail wag? Each run from right here on is like gold mud for Pat Cummins’ males.

11.50AM: WICKET! ANOTHER! HEAD FALLS SHORT OF TON

The wickets are tumbling as soon as once more. It’s a repeat of yesterday when 15 wickets fell – and this time it’s Travis Head who has to go, after a contentious overview.

Head will get a faint contact down the legside from a Marco Jansen brief ball, earlier than instantly reviewing.

It briefly seems to be like he may survive – nothing comes up on hotspot – however there’s a faint spike because the ball passes the glove and that’s sufficient to substantiate the on-field resolution.

He departs for 92 – eight wanting a well-deserved century.

11.48AM: WICKET! GREEN CAMEO COMES TO AN END

Effectively, that’s a commentator’s curse from me!

Cameron Inexperienced was flaying boundaries in every single place, however he’s bitten off a bit an excessive amount of – and flashes at a large supply from Jansen. It was there to be hit, however Inexperienced will get the thick edge.

It was too scorching to deal with for Maharaj at third slip, however he does sufficient to parry it skyward and Sarel Erwee has sufficient time to make his manner throughout from first slip to make a pleasant catch.

Inexperienced goes for 18, with Australia main by 29.

11.45AM: GREEN, HEAD PILE ON PAIN

We’re not even half an hour into day two and it seems to be just like the life has already been squeezed out of South Africa.

Whereas Travis Head marches on in the direction of one other century (passing 2000 Check runs alongside the best way this morning), Cameron Inexperienced is opening his broad shoulders and placing in a knock that’s ripping the competition away from South Africa.

Inexperienced has pounded 4 boundaries to race to a run-a-ball 18, as Australia go about constructing a first-innings lead.

They’ve added 33 runs at just below six runs an over to this point this morning, to provide them a 26-run lead with 5 wickets remaining.

11.25AM: AUSTRALIA MOVE PAST SOUTH AFRICA

It took simply 4 deliveries this morning for Australia to wipe out the remaining run deficit, having began the day seven runs behind South Africa’s first innings whole of 152.

Cameron Inexperienced punched a high-quality off drive to the boundary off Kagiso Rabada to sign his intent for the day.

Travis Head, who began the day unbeaten on 78, has one other century in his sights whereas Australia might be eager to pile on the runs and bat South Africa out of the competition.

There’s additionally an incredible alternative for Inexperienced to get his summer season going after watching the highest order occupy the crease for a lot of the West Indies sequence. He’s began promisingly, with a pair of boundaries in opposition to Rabada.

11.05AM: WARNER’S TEST FUTURE ‘IN DOUBT’ AMID FORM SLUMP

Veteran opener David Warner’s Check future is unsure, in keeping with Australian legend Mark Waugh because the under-fire star battles a contemporary kind stoop.

Warner, certainly one of Australia’s most interesting ever batsmen, hasn’t scored a Check century since January 2020 and was blasted out for a golden duck by Kagiso Rabada on day one on the Gabba – elevating questions on whether or not his time within the dishevelled inexperienced is coming to an finish.

He’s but to register a half-century this summer season, and has handed 50 simply twice in 2022, which all places him beneath stress to show issues round in a rush in keeping with Waugh.

However it was the character of Warner’s dismissal on Saturday – crushed by tempo from a vicious Rabada bouncer – which involved Waugh probably the most.

“The indicators weren’t good there with the approach. I do assume the faster bowlers fear him. However simply the best way he bought out is a priority for me,” Waugh advised Fox Cricket.

“I feel he’s missing in confidence… he wants some runs within the subsequent couple of Check matches to maintain being picked within the Check crew.

“It doesn’t matter who you might be: your job as a batsman is to make runs. He’ll be given a little bit of leeway due to his file and who he’s, however how a lot leeway do you retain giving a batsman?

“The selectors would need to see him make some runs within the subsequent couple of Check matches in any other case his Check future must be unsure.”

10.45AM: STARC’S CRUEL MILESTONE BLOW

Mitchell Starc is on the verge of becoming a member of probably the most elite teams in Australian cricket – the 300 membership.

And for a quick second yesterday, he thought he was about to turn out to be Australia’s seventh Check bowler to take 300 wickets. Just for Travis Head to give you the one blot on his copybook yesterday.

Earlier than he revived Australia’s batting with an outstanding counter-attacking knock, Head spilled a tricky probability at bat-pad that may’ve given Starc his milestone wicket.

The catch went in, then out, after which hit the turf leaving Starc stranded on 299 going into the second innings in opposition to South Africa.

“He had a couple of cracks at it. (The three hundredth wicket) will come when it comes,” Starc advised Fox Cricket.

“It’s been an pleasurable journey. We’ll forgive Heady if he retains going with the bat as he’s.”

10.15am – AUSSIES’ PLAN TO CRUSH PROTEAS

Australia resume in a really sturdy place – they path South Africa’s first innings by simply seven runs, with Travis Head unbeaten on 78 and eyeing off one other Check century this summer season.

Head added 117 with Steve Smith yesterday to place Australia nicely on prime after three classes, however with the solar out on the Gabba right now it seems to be like batting situations could possibly be at their finest.

Head might want to mix with Cameron Inexperienced, who will come to the crease after nightwatchman Scott Boland’s dismissal closed play yesterday, and Alex Carey in a bid to bat South Africa out of the competition.

A lead of something north of 100 runs will appear like an infinite mountain to climb for South Africa and what seems to be like a reasonably feeble batting lineup.

Nonetheless if Rabada, Nortje and Jansen can regroup and knock over the ultimate 5 wickets with out an excessive amount of harm – then take advantage of the higher batting situations this afternoon – we might have a recreation on our palms.

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TEAMMATE’S SCARY PREMONITION OF WORLD-BEATER HEAD

This Check is the one-year anniversary of Alex Carey forecasting his mate Travis Head would turn out to be one of many world’s finest batsmen.

It appeared a tad untimely for a participant who a couple of months earlier had misplaced his Cricket Australia contract but it surely’s time to provide the fortune teller his due.

In consecutive Gabba Checks the free-spirited Head has taken a century off England after which handled the adorned South African assault as if they’re park bowlers.

He could have floundered in Pakistan and Sri Lanka in between however his finest work in Australia actually is uncommon air.

Head has at all times been an fascinating case examine, partially as a result of South Australia has over the previous a long time produced three left-handed stroke-players – Darren Lehmann, Wayne Phillips and David Hookes – who performed lower than 30 Checks every for various causes regardless of being gamers of outstanding expertise.

Head, for a number of years seen as a flighty fringe participant, has someway managed to crack the Check match code on dwelling shores.

The nationwide selectors have at all times appreciated Head however they had been by no means certain find out how to get the perfect from him.

Some individuals have stated his beautiful kind surge proves he ought to by no means have misplaced his Cricket Australia contract – others who know him nicely say it was the making of him.

COOL SKIPPER

Pat Cummins’ clean transition to the Check captaincy has left Australia to ask itself whether or not it’s been seduced by faux logic for 145 years.

That lengthy held principle that bowlers had been too busy to run the crew meant that earlier than Cummins took, Ray Lindwall – in a single Check solely – was the one different specialist quick man to guide as Australian Check crew.

Cummins biggest challenges are forward with sequence in opposition to India and England however

however there’s a calm resilience on this crew and Cummins had no qualms in difficult conference by bowling first on the Gabba.

There appears little question that Cummins encouragement of Head to play his pure recreation has helped him play with uplifting freedom.

You marvel what different quick bowlers might have provided as Check leaders had they not been discarded due to the “batsman are finest’’ principle.

The good Keith Miller was snubbed as a result of he was deemed too vibrant off the sector however was adored by his fellow gamers who loved taking part in beneath him at state degree.

Geoff Lawson was by no means near captaining Australia but he was probably the most progressive Sheffield Defend captain of the Eighties and would have been an fascinating alternative if ever Allan Border had been injured.

Lindwall bought one Check as skipper. His mates reckon he might simply have completed the job full-time.

UNLEASH THE BEAST

Occasional movie producer Kagiso Rabada just lately did a film referred to as Ring of Beasts then, for one dramatic ball, grew to become one on the Gabba.

Bowlers have been attempting to tuck up David Warner with brief stuff for years however he’s so fast and evasive that until you land it on the pin level, you pay.

However Rabada at his finest is subsequent degree. He was clearly a person with a plan.

He warmed up strongly and arrowed his first ball straight on the physique the place Warner’s ft got here off the bottom, his hand got here off the bat and his eye got here off the ball as he fended to brief leg who was on pink alert for exactly that shot.

Somebody within the press field exclaimed “it was a very powerful one to get first up however you do get these ones first up.’’

South Africa have their plan for the sequence for Warner now.

Opening the batting is a brutal skilled and Warner’s current modest kind will imply at age 36 he’s on trial for his future within the closing two Checks of the sequence.

Batsmen can age shortly in opposition to categorical tempo however Warner is a famend scrapper. Nice challenges await in opposition to a superb South African tempo assault – not merely for Warner however everybody.

Initially revealed as Australia v South Africa: Observe all of the motion from day 2 on the Gabba