South Africa v Australia: third men’s cricket Test, day four – live
First ball in Cape Town is 10.30am local/7.30pm AEDT/8.30am GMT Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email And what of yesterday? It was another belter, shifting back and forth, but so much rests on South Africa’s captain, and while he was there, the hosts were in the best spot. Until the very late…
Hello, sport fiends. It is your season. Once again, as has been our good fortune through this Test match, we approach a new day of it with intrigue in the air and with any option possible. South Africa will resume their third innings four wickets down with a lead of just 40. In the next session, so much will be decided. Wickets, and Australia press home their advantage and set themselves up for a manageable chase. But it won’t take too many runs to become a big problem for the visitors. Another hundred and the game is alive, and two hundred and the game is snarling and destroying its cage.
Because it ain’t the easiest to bat out there, the pitch is wearing and offering more turn to the spinners, while still some lift for the quicks, even though batters can still play shots on it with true bounce. It might be a surface that rewards judicious aggression today, and South Africa have Breetzke, Rickleton, Mulder, Jansen, and Harmer to come, who can all meet that brief.
The whole series is genuinely in the balance as of ball one.
