{"id":934793,"date":"2026-10-20T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934793\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:02:09","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-cricket-scores-second-test-day-3-highlights-results-latest-updates-genius-review-brutal-bouncer-seals-starcs-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934793\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 cricket scores: Second Test, Day 3 highlights, results, latest updates; Genius review, brutal bouncer seals Starc\u2019s milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a full day\u2019s play ahead it\u2019s an interesting situation we have here. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019d be a big surprise if South Africa pushed for a result considering there\u2019s three days left and they\u2019re 1-0 down. <\/p>\n<p>Mark Waugh believes the Aussies can win. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf South Africa are bowled out for 180 and Australia make 300, which is possible, but it depends on these last five wickets and how long South Africa hang around,\u201d he said on Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a bit of batting to come&#8230;but I think there\u2019s time and there\u2019s enough in this pitch for some wickets to fall quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerry O\u2019Keeffe wonders if the pitch will change following two days of rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much is left in this pitch? That\u2019s the big question. It\u2019s been under the covers for a couple of days. Nathan Lyon would be interested in finding out if there\u2019s a lot for the quicker men,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut South Africa, if they can get around 180 to 200-plus, that\u2019s a par on this deck if it\u2019s going to nibble as much as it has on days one and two.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a full day\u2019s play ahead it\u2019s an interesting situation we have here. It\u2019d be a big surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-934793","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\/934793","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=934793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}