{"id":926391,"date":"2026-10-13T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926391\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:00:11","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-live-cricket-scores-first-test-day-5-highlights-results-latest-updates-proteas-face-mammoth-run-chase-steve-smith-concussion-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926391\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 LIVE cricket scores: First Test, Day 5 highlights, results, latest updates; Proteas face mammoth run chase, Steve Smith concussion tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should he be ruled out with concussion, attention will quickly turn to who replaces Smith in the Australian XI for the second Test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope he\u2019s OK,\u201d Beau Webster said of Smith at the end of day four. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe obviously copped a nasty knock in the head there. Hopefully he\u2019s back out with this either tomorrow or in the next Test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh Inglis fractured his finger in a white-ball series recently but is back training with the Test group and could be a replacement option, while Cam Green could be available in time for the next match after missing Durban due to injury.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791878411_470_8a139a4df805ea82349eb75d4911a31ce80fd14e.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Cameron Green goes down in last week\u2019s ODI against South Africa.\u00a0AP Photo\/Themba Hadebe<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys look like they\u2019re tracking well,\u201d Webster said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIngles got back to us from Perth in the last couple of days. He\u2019s had a hit today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreenie looks like he\u2019s up and he\u2019s running. I haven\u2019t really spoken to him. I\u2019ve got no real time timeline there. I\u2019m not a physio or a doctor, so I\u2019ve got no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sam Harper and Cooper Connolly are also in the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should he be ruled out with concussion, attention will quickly turn to who replaces Smith in the Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-926391","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\/926391","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=926391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}