Delhi: The first day of the ICC World Test Championship final was in Australia’s favor, although former Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden believes that South Africa will have to bat more aggressive on the second day. Australia scored 212 runs in this match being played at Lord’s. In response, South Africa started very poorly and till the end of the day’s play, he lost 4 wickets for 43 runs.
For Australia, Steve Smith played 66 runs and Bu Webster played important innings of 72 runs. For South Africa, Kagiso Rabada took 5 wickets while bowling brilliantly, while Marco Yansen got 3 successes. In the first session, South Africa took the lead by stopping Australia at 67/4, but by the end of the day, Australia made a tremendous comeback and strengthened their grip on the match by taking 4 wickets.
Matthew Hayden questioned the batting of South African captain Temba Bavuma, who took 31 balls to start his innings. He said that this is dangerous, when you are facing three world-class fast bowlers and the conditions are also favorable to them. He insisted that South Africa will have to adopt more aggressive attitude on the second day. Hayden also said that there was a change in the weather throughout the day, half a day cloud and half a day of sunshine, which should have been easy to bat, but it did not happen. According to him, this day went in favor of about 80 percent of Australia, especially due to the negative mentality of South Africa.
Australia shared a 79 -run partnership between Smith and the webster in the innings, followed by the webster partnered with Alex Carrie. Carrie scored 23 runs. South Africa’s counter -innings were extremely bad, and no batsman could reach 20 runs. Mitchell Starc took two wickets, while Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood got one success each.
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