{"id":907750,"date":"2026-09-27T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907750\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:20:10","slug":"cricket-news-2026-cooper-connolly-catch-video-australia-vs-south-africa-second-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907750\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2026: Cooper Connolly catch video; Australia vs South Africa second ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cooper Connolly\u2019s impressive ODI tour in Africa continued with a screamer for Australia<\/a> on the first ball of the second match against South Africa<\/a> at The Wanderers Stadium. <\/p>\n

Mitch Marsh<\/a> won the toss in Johannesburg and elected to field with his side right on top from the start.<\/p>\n

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Cooper Connolly\u2019s catch.\u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n

Josh Hazlewood pitched his ball at a good length outside off-stump with Aiden Markram attempting a cut shot towards point. <\/p>\n

Connolly leaped high and took the catch one-handed to send Markram packing. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a wonderful catch,\u201d Shaun Pollock said on Fox Cricket\u2019s coverage. <\/p>\n

Greg Blewett added to the plaudits.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a serious talent, Cooper Connolly,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cVery much an all-rounder with primarily his batting but he\u2019s so valuable in the field … reminds me a bit of Michael Clarke in the field, the way he throws and fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Proteas<\/a> then quickly became 2-36 when Quinton de Kock (15) was cuaght behind off Hazlewood\u2019s bowling. <\/p>\n

Matthew Breetzke brought South Africa back into the contest with 34 off 28 balls before became Jack Edwards\u2019 first ODI victim, caught behind as well. <\/p>\n

Edwards\u2019 wicket was a form of redemption, having dropped Temba Bavuma it the outfield. <\/p>\n

The momentum started to turn towards South Africa with Nathan Ellis ruled out from a side strain having bowled four overs and conceded 22 runs. The Proteas were clearly attacking Australia\u2019s spinners too as Adam Zampa went for close to 10 runs an over from his first seven. Matthew Renshaw also had 0-29 off three overs. <\/p>\n

Bavuma eventually reached a century in the 36th over, off the bowling of Edwards who no doubt had regret over his blunder. The ton came off 112 balls.<\/p>\n

Edwards had his man the next time he grabbed the ball when Bavuma was caught for 103.<\/p>\n

David Miller was next to hit a century, finishing with 142 before he was dimissed by Edwards too. <\/p>\n

South Africa ended its innings 9-365 as Edwards claimed 5-67. <\/p>\n

In reply, the Aussies wee bowled out for 333 with captain Marsh (84) and Travis Head (84) top-scoring in the run chase.<\/p>\n

Xavier Bartlett smashed 50 off 28 balls in a late cameo, but it wasn\u2019t enough as the Proteas took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Connolly\u2019s impressive ODI tour in Africa continued with a screamer for Australia on the first ball of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-907750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907750","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=907750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}