{"id":933745,"date":"2026-10-19T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933745\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:50:10","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-live-day-two-of-second-cricket-test-match-starts-in-gqberha-starts-at-6-45pm-local-time-scores-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933745\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Day two of second cricket Test match starts in Gqberha starts at 6.45pm local time; scores, results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The simmering feud between great England all-rounders has bubbled over once more, with Lord Botham saying Ben Stokes \u201clet himself down\u201d in the final months of his Test career.<\/p>\n<p>Botham, 70, and Stokes, 35, were previously on good terms \u2013 Botham was chairman of Stokes\u2019s county, Durham \u2013 until late last year. But their relationship deteriorated when Stokes, then England captain, dismissed criticism of his team\u2019s slim preparation programme from the likes of Botham as being from \u201chas-beens\u201d, although he later apologised and said he had misspoken.<\/p>\n<p>Botham took umbrage with the comments and this summer welcomed Stokes to the \u201chas-beens\u201d club when he retired from international duty in June.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Has been: Former England captain Ben Stokes and Lord Ian Botham have exchanged words.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0c3401e2b8183466f751416c71c4cbe0b736fc1a.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bNAuyX\"\/>Has been: Former England captain Ben Stokes and Lord Ian Botham have exchanged words.Jacob King\/PA via AP<\/p>\n<p>Stokes\u2019s retirement came at the end of a chaotic month when he had to sit out a Test at the Oval, having stayed out beyond midnight after the win over New Zealand at Lord\u2019s, breaching a curfew he had helped introduce. It was revealed, however, in a disciplinary meeting to have not been properly codified. Stokes played one more Test, but retired 15 minutes before tea on the fourth day, with England going on to lose. Botham has been fiercely critical all summer of Stokes\u2019s night out in London, saying \u201csome people just don\u2019t learn\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The simmering feud between great England all-rounders has bubbled over once more, with Lord Botham saying Ben Stokes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-933745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933745","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=933745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}