2nd Test : Aus.vs SAfrica (Aus 575/8 Declared) (SA 189 & 204) - Page 2

Warner and Labuschagne walk off to warm applause from the 60,000-plus crowd. Australia end day one 144 behind, with nine wickets in hand. Warner, playing his 100th Test, looked to be proactive as he got going with a pull off Rabada. There was an all-run four, loud shouts of 'noo run', and he sure seemed switched on. The South Africa bowlers were all over the place, something they could ill-afford after being bundled out for 189. Rabada started off the day with six deliveries down leg to Warner, while Ngidi and Jansen too were off the mark. Rabada did get the wicket of Khawaja, but was rather ordinary otherwise. They will need to re-group and come up with a better plan tomorrow.

Warner playing his 100th test

Now 84 not out, Smith on 14 who has excellant record at Here, Melbourne 934 runs in 10 test.

Labu run out 14 ( 962* for 2022)

Aus at lunch

125/2

❤️100 on 100th Test :

MC Cowdrey-104-Englandv Australia-BirminghamJul 1968

Javed Miandad-145-Pakistanv India-Lahore1 Dec 1989

CG Greenidge-149-West Indies

England-St John's12 Apr 1990

AJ Stewart-105-Englandv West Indies-Manchester3 Aug 2000

Inzamam-ul-Haq-184-Pakistanv India-Bengaluru24 Mar 2005

🤳RT Ponting-120-Australiav South Africa-Sydney2 Jan 2006🫀
🤳RT Ponting-143*-Australiav South Africa-Sydney2 Jan 2006🫀

GC Smith-131-South Africav England-The Oval19 Jul 2012

HM Amla-134-South Africav Sri Lanka-Johannesburg12 Jan 2017

JE Root-218-England v India-Chennai 2021

D. Warner- 200*- Aus v SA - Melbourne-2022

Smith hits his 37th 50*

Can he convert in 100 too?

No

Smith 85 out

Warner on 192*

Smith / Warner put on 239

Partnership

Aus 314/3*

Lead by 121

Warner (200*)Joined with Root (218) for DBL in his 100Th test.

Congratulation!

Cramp to warner he left

Retires hurt

Green called for the physio and his right forefinger is bleeding. That is not good. Starc injured his finger while fielding, Warner and Smith had a couple of knocks on the hand, now Green. Hope it is not serious. It is a cut on the knuckle and the physio is cleaning it up. Nope, Green cannot continue and he becomes the second Australian batter to walk off the field. That is not good news because with Starc injured they needed him to bowl. Carey walks out to the middle

Green also Retires hurt

Head on 35*

365/3 aus

Lead of 176.

Australia 575/8 Declared

Smith 85, Head 51, Carey 111, Warner 200.

Green 51 not out, Lyon 25, Extra 23

Rabada

28

1

144

2

Lungi Ngidi

22.1

2

98

1

Marco Jansen

28

1

89

1

Nortje

25

1

92

3

Maharaj

41.5

3

135

0

Aus gained lead of 386

Cummins to Elgar caught Carey

Cummins to de Bruyn, no run, edged and Warner has put it down, so not a perfect 100th Test for him -

SA 204 all out

Bavuma 65, Verrynne 33, Bruyn 28, Erwee 21, # 11 Ngidi 19

Starc-16/4/51/1

PC -16/8/20/1
Boland15/2/49/2
Lyon14.5/0/44/3
Smith-2.5/0/9/1

2 run out

Aus won by an innings &:182 runs

Won series 2/0

Warner MOM

Sydney test coming up

Aus recalled Ashton Agar & Matthews Renshaw for sydney test.

Both Green & Starc ruled out with injury

Aus vs SA 3rd Sydney test

Aus eye on Nagpur test (Feb 9), starts slowly scored 31 in First hour

Aus bats 60/1