{"id":80974,"date":"2025-08-19T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:33:10","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-first-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80974\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa first ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travis Head<\/a>‘s heroics ensured South Africa stayed below a total of 300 in the first ODI but he couldn’t help Australia to victory in Cairns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the last delivery of the 49th over, Wiaan Mulder hit the ball back to Head, who flicked it back to the stumps at the non-striker’s end.<\/p>\n

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“Sadly run out at the bowler’s end off the bowler’s hand, the worst demise,” Kerry O’Keeffe said on Fox Cricket. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Travis Head’s flick back to the stumps. \u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n

Head finished with 4-57 from his nine overs and the Proteas set a target of 297.<\/p>\n

The big score for South Africa came from Aiden Markram at the top with 82 while Temba Bavuma (65) and Matthew Breetzke (57) also recorded half centuries.<\/p>\n

Ben Dwarshuis (2-53) and Adam Zampa (1-58) were the other wicket-takers.<\/p>\n

In response, Australia started strong with an opening partnership of 60 before Travis Head was gone for 27.<\/p>\n

But Keshav Maharaj tore apart the middle order with not a single player from No.3 to No.7 scoring double figures.<\/p>\n

The rampaging spinner dismissed Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Josh Inglis, Alex Carey and Aaron Hardie to leave Australia 6-89.<\/p>\n

“That was the most skilful spell I’ve seen in a long time of slow left-arm orthodox spin … I thought he was stunningly good,” O’Keeffe said.<\/p>\n

Mitch Marsh scored 88 at the top of the order and gave Australia a fighting chance, partnering with with Dwarshuis for 71 runs.<\/p>\n

But when Marsh was gone at 8-174 it was game over and Zampa was the final wicket to fall as Australia was bowled out for 198.<\/p>\n

Maharaj’s figures were 5-33. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Head‘s heroics ensured South Africa stayed below a total of 300 in the first ODI but he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-80974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}