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But all is not quite as it seems according to David Bedingham, who batted well in Durban at No.3 when falling narrowly shy of making half-centuries in both innings as the Australians recorded a 214-run triumph.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I saw the picture actually, and it does look like KG is quite intense, but in terms of being around the group, he\u2019s actually a very chilled guy,\u201d Bedingham said on Friday at St George\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut basically, the main (message) was just about bouncing back, showing good attitude, those type of things. (There was) no shouting and that type of stuff. It was more just \u2018let\u2019s bounce back.\u2019 It\u2019s a huge challenge, but if we bounce back, perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rabada bowled again in South Africa\u2019s main training session two days out from the first day in Gqeberha, which was formerly known as Port Elizabeth, on another warm and sunny day in the coastal city.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old, in tandem with the venomous Anrich Nortje, lanky left-arm quick Marco Jansen and all-rounder Wiann Mulder put Matthew Breetzke and Marques Ackerman, who are set to come into the XI, through a testing spell of bowling.<\/p>\n
Bedingham said the return of Rabada, provided he satisfies selectors that he is fully recovered from the hamstring injury that threatened to rule him out of the entire series, will be a significant boost to the hopes of the home side.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s massive for us. I mean, it looks like he\u2019s ready, but I\u2019m not a physio or a doctor, so I\u2019m not sure,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut the way it looks is like he\u2019s quick again. He\u2019s sharp, so hopefully come the next Test, he\u2019s ready to cause havoc.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think even if you look back last year in the World Test Championship final, I think he took nine wickets. So I think against any team he plays, he\u2019s ready. So hopefully, come this next Test, he\u2019s sharp and takes nine or 10 wickets. That would be quite nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only Protea absent from training of note was opening batsman Aiden Markram, who returned home for personal reasons after his stoic effort in Durban but is set to rejoin the squad on Saturday, Cricinfo reported.<\/p>\n
When Bedingham, 32, said the Proteas faced a \u201chuge challenge\u201d to rebound, part of the reason for that is the quality of the Australian attack. <\/p>\n
He said the quartet of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon, who surpassed 600 Test wickets as a combination in the series opening triumph in Durban, were a relentless threat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was actually speaking to my friends about it, and it\u2019s like in first-class cricket, you face like a decent bowler, and then there\u2019s maybe another decent one, and then maybe you can cash in later with the third or fourth one,\u201d the Protea said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I was just saying, like, you get through six balls of Cummins, and then you look and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s Starc, and then you get through their spell, and then it\u2019s like, \u2018Hh, flip, it\u2019s Hazlewood and Lion. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s tough, but I think we have faced them before. Hopefully we can just do it for longer periods of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bedingham, who played County cricket for Durham over the South African winter, said his mates were not that helpful with their advice as to how to handle the superstar attack, even though he managed it better than most of his teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of them are club players, so they all just said \u2018reverse sweep or smack them across the line\u2019, that type of stuff,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo (it was) not a lot of thought from them, but I think all of our batters, it will always be tough against them. But it\u2019s just about \u2018How can we do it for longer?\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I think, especially in the first innings, I think five of our batters got to maybe 30 to 50 and I think the big difference in that Test match is obviously Matt Renshaw went on to get 180 and 80, so if we can just do it for a bit longer, I think we\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is the photograph of Kagiso Rabada that should put the fear of God into Australia\u2019s brittle top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,85],"class_list":["post-930750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930750","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=930750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}