{"id":942936,"date":"2026-10-27T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942936\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:46:09","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-live-cricket-scores-third-test-day-1-highlights-results-latest-updates-pat-cummins-decision-to-bowl-slammed-steve-smith-ruled-out-with-neck-injury-josh-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942936\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 LIVE cricket scores: Third Test, day 1 highlights, results, latest updates; Pat Cummins\u2019 decision to bowl slammed; Steve Smith ruled out with neck injury, Josh Inglis in as teams confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This match has taken a very sharp turn.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is now four down \u2013 4-216 \u2013 after Australia had an lbw call overturned on review.<\/p>\n<p>The standing umpire ruled not out when young all-rounder Cooper Connolly and his teammates appealed for the wicket of Matthew Breetzke via lbw, but Australia went upstairs and technology delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Replays showed the ball hit pad before bat. They also showed the ball would have gone on to hit off stump.<\/p>\n<p>Breetzke is subsequently out for 2, and the Proteas are suddenly 4-216.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and that is Connolly\u2019s maiden Test wicket. A terrific moment for the young man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a moment he will never forget, at a moment when Australia needed it,\u201d Simon Katich says in commentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPat Cummins gave him the opportunity and he hasn\u2019t let the skipper down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That proved to be an outstanding bowling change by Pat Cummins. He brought on Connolly for a spell just before tea and the young gun delivered in his second over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This match has taken a very sharp turn. South Africa is now four down \u2013 4-216 \u2013 after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-942936","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\/942936","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=942936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}