{"id":916107,"date":"2026-10-04T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916107\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:36:09","slug":"nortje-raring-to-go-for-test-return-against-australia-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916107\/","title":{"rendered":"Nortje raring to go for Test return against Australia | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa go into the series as reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICC World Test Championship<\/a> holders, having beaten Australia in last year&#8217;s final in London. Nortje was full of praise for the group that he hopes to rejoin and for head coach Shukri Conrad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way the team&#8217;s progressed over the last few years has been amazing under coach Shuks (Shukri Conrad, head coach),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been really good, the way they&#8217;ve played and the way they&#8217;ve gone about things. Hopefully, I can just add 1%, 2%, [or] whatever it might be to help the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Africa v Australia Test series schedule<\/p>\n<p>First Test, 09-13 October, Kingsmead Stadium, Durban<\/p>\n<p>Second Test, 18-22 October, St George\u2019s Park, Gqeberha<\/p>\n<p>Third Test, 27-31 October, Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa go into the series as reigning ICC World Test Championship holders, having beaten Australia in last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-916107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916107","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=916107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}