Australia V South Africa: Third Men’s One-day International – Live

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Australia triumph nan flip and take to bat first

A fewer cheers astir nan crushed arsenic Mitch Marsh calls nan coin flip correctly. I don’t think they were sarcastic but Australia fans would beryllium forgiven for raising an eyebrow aliases 2 arsenic nan batting paper has grounded to occurrence successful ODIs of late. Can they make 200 fof nan first clip this series. We’ll soon find out.

Teams:

Australia: 1 Mitchell Marsh (c), 2 Travis Head, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Cameron Green, 5 Josh Inglis (wk), 6 Alex Carey, 7 Cooper Connolly, 8 Xavier Bartlett, 9 Sean Abbott, 10 Nathan Ellis, 10 Adam Zampa

South Africa: 1 Ryan Rickelton, 2 Aiden Markram, 3 Temba Bavuma (c), 4 Tony de Zorzi, 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Dewald Brevis, 7 Wiaan Mulder, 8 Corbin Bosch, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 10 Senuran Muthusamy, 11 Kwena Maphaka

Changes afoot! Sean Abbott and Cooper Connolly are successful for Australia pinch Hazlewood and Hardie ‘rested’. South Africa person allowed Matthew Breetzke, Nandre Burger and Lungi Ngidi to put their trotters up pinch Corbin Bosch and Kwena Maphaka coming in. Bavuma confirms he is rotating his men pinch that circuit of England adjacent up, he besides admits he would person batted first connected a decent looking track.

The coin will beryllium flipped imminently successful Mackay.

Get up to velocity successful nan meantime:

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Hello and invited to nan 3rd and last ODI betwixt Australia and South Africa from nan fantastically named Great Barrier Reef Arena successful Mackay, Queensland.

Dead rubber? Pffft nary specified point betwixt these 2 sides. After sealing nan bid connected Friday pinch a 2nd thumping triumph nan Proteas are aiming for a bid whitewash whilst Australia will beryllium hopeless to reverse their anvil-strapped chemoreceptor dive of 7 defeats successful their past 8 ODIs.

South Africa caput complete to England aft this bid for much achromatic shot action, they’ve been very awesome successful nan past fewer matches pinch Lungi Ngidi and Keshav Maharaj starring pinch nan shot and Matthew Breetzke peppering nan obstruction pinch nan bat.

Play gets underway successful a small complete half an hr -at 2.30pm AEST and an eye-bag inducing 5.30am present successful Blighty. I’ll bring news of nan teams and flip very shortly. Do get successful touch if you are tuning in. Let’s do this.