Australia V South Africa: Second Men’s One-day-international – Live

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South Africa triumph nan flip and will bat first

They hardly needed to spell done that formality considering Mitch Marsh has won nan flip 21 times arsenic skipper crossed T20Is and ODIs and bowled connected each occasion.

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Jonathan Howcroft

Good day everybody and invited to unrecorded OBO sum of nan pinnacle of late-winter sport, the nail-biting title for nan AFL & NRL finals nan 2nd of a three-match bilateral ODI bid betwixt Australia and South Africa. Play gets nether measurement successful balmy Mackay astatine 2:30pm.

This is arsenic off-Broadway arsenic men’s world crickets gets connected Australian soil. Coverage is disposable only connected salary TV, big metropolis Mackay has a organization of conscionable complete 100,000, and nan magnificently named Great Barrier Reef Arena tin accommodate astir 10 percent of nan section community, if they each decided to timepiece disconnected early connected a Friday and bask a mates of sundowners.

This is only nan 2nd ever ODI astatine nan venue. The first lasted conscionable 2 deliveries earlier it was washed out, backmost erstwhile India met Sri Lanka successful nan 1992 World Cup.

The location broadside mightiness not mind that attraction is elsewhere, considering nan thrashing they received a fewer nights agone successful Cairns. For nan first clip ever, Australia person been bowled retired for nether 200 successful their past 3 location ODIs.

In nan Top End, nan apical bid many times played disconnected nan backmost ft to Keshav Maharaj connected a platform that offered some grip and skid to nan left-arm spinner. The result was inevitable, and not a awesome denotation of nan expertise of this portion and accompanying brains spot to accommodate to conditions.

That was Australia’s sixth conclusion successful their past 7 ODIs, and different triumph for nan Proteas coming would unafraid a 5th consecutive bid triumph complete their hosts.

Following his exploits successful Cairns, Maharaj lines up coming arsenic nan recently minted number 1 classed bowler successful ODIs. However, he will not person his rotation partner from Tuesday alongside him aft Prenelan Subrayen was reported for a fishy bowling action connected ODI debut. There will now beryllium an independent appraisal of Subrayen’s action astatine an ICC-accredited testing installation to find if he has to remodel his action. He has faced akin scrutiny 3 times before, successful 2012, 2014, and 2016.

I’ll beryllium backmost soon pinch nan flip and line-ups. In nan meantime, if you person thing to get disconnected your thorax consciousness free to email maine astatine jonathan.howcroft.casual@theguardian.com.