{"id":933783,"date":"2026-10-19T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933783\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:28:15","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-cricket-scores-second-test-day-2-highlights-results-latest-updates-frustrating-day-two-ruined-by-grounds-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933783\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 cricket scores: Second Test, Day 2 highlights, results, latest updates; Frustrating day two ruined by ground\u2019s condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well there needs to be a lot of filler content during a rain break.<\/p>\n<p>So on Fox Cricket, Mark Howard has been taking viewers through a behind the scenes look at the commentary box and the food on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s found former Wide World of Sports host Mark Nicholas who talked about his golf game and gave us an update on the rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re definitely going to play, it\u2019s brightened up but it won\u2019t be easy to bat,\u201d Nicholas said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a couple of umpires wandering around like they know what they\u2019re thinking but they never do,\u201d he added with a smile. <\/p>\n<p>Those umpires are walking very slowly around the outfield right now. <\/p>\n<p>Howard predicts play could start in about an hour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well there needs to be a lot of filler content during a rain break. So on Fox Cricket,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-933783","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\/933783","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=933783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}