{"id":921623,"date":"2026-10-09T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921623\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:28:10","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-cricket-live-maddinson-goes-for-33-ball-duck-joins-head-in-sheds-as-aussies-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921623\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa cricket LIVE: Maddinson goes for 33-ball duck, joins Head in sheds as Aussies in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s ageing Test side face a defining year with tours of South Africa, India and England, and pace spearhead Mitchell Starc said winning all three series and retaining the one-day World Cup would be the equivalent of Rory McIlroy winning golf\u2019s four majors in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Australia begin the daunting 12-month stretch with a three-test series against South Africa in Durban on Friday, before tours of India and England next year and the defence of their 2023 ODI World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mitchell Starc had a brilliant Test in Mackay.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8c8991d03e37d171f5159d8299b0aaac39dbf133.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Mitchell Starc had a brilliant Test in Mackay.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Having not won a test series in England since 2001, India since 2004 and South Africa since 2014, the Australians face one of their toughest assignments in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s somewhat unusual that you play the three marquee series away from home in the space of 12 months,\u201d Starc told ESPNcricinfo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s ageing Test side face a defining year with tours of South Africa, India and England, and pace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-921623","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\/921623","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=921623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}