Australia V South Africa: Third Men’s T20 International – Live

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2nd over: South Africa 8-1 (Rickelton 2, Pretorius 5). Rickleton survives a immense scare aft testing Marsh’s arm. The South Africa opener drives to mid-off and sets disconnected for a azygous but is short of his crease arsenic nan shot bounces narrowly wide of nan stumps. Pretorius adds nan first bound pinch a loft complete mid-on.

1st over: South Africa 2-1 (Rickelton 1, Pretorius 0). Hazlewood takes nary clip to find his statement and length. Markram and Rickleton prime up a azygous each earlier nan Australia speedy strikes pinch a trademark transportation extracurricular disconnected stump.

WICKET! Markram c Green b Hazlewood 1 (South Africa 2-1)

Josh Hazlewood gives Australia nan perfect prima arsenic nan removes nan South Africa captain. Markram steps onto nan backmost ft and swings difficult but a heavy separator is comfortably grasped by Green astatine slip.

Josh Hazlewood has nan shot successful hand and is astatine nan apical of his people pinch South Africa skipper Aiden Markram connected strike. Let’s get into it …

South Africa XI

South Africa: Aiden Markram (capt), Ryan Rickelton (wk), Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Dewald Brevis, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Senuran Mutusamy, Kwena Maphaka, Lungi Ngidi

One alteration for nan Proteas pinch Senuran Muthusamy coming into nan XI for Nqaba Peter.

Australia XI

Australia: Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (capt), Josh Inglis (wk), Cameron Green, Tim David, Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Hardie, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

The hosts make 3 changes pinch Josh Inglis among those to return. Aaron Hardie and Nathan Ellis besides travel into nan XI pinch Alex Carey, Sean Abbott and nan concussed Mitch Owen making way.

Australia triumph nan toss

Australia triumph nan flip and elite to vessel first pinch skipper Mitch Marsh wanting to get a look astatine nan conditions.

South Africa skipper Aiden Markram seems pleased pinch nan result and suggests that he would person batted anyway.

Preamble

Hello and invited to unrecorded sum of nan 3rd T20 world betwixt Australia and South Africa, arsenic nan bid goes down to nan wire.

The three-match bid is each quadrate astatine 1 triumph apiece aft a brace of batting powerhouses took turns to ray up nan fireworks for their team.

Tim David did nan harm arsenic Australia took retired nan first lucifer successful Darwin, but that was thing compared to Dewald Brevis’s record-breaking period for South Africa successful nan 2nd T20.

While nan stakes are precocious betwixt nan brace of aged rivals, this is besides a historical juncture arsenic nan first men’s T20 played astatine Cazalys Stadium successful Cairns.

First shot will beryllium astatine 7.15pm section clip / AEST. I’ll person nan flip and squad news for you successful conscionable a moment.