{"id":944940,"date":"2026-10-29T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944940\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:22:12","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-live-cricket-scores-third-test-day-3-highlights-results-latest-updates-steve-smith-neck-injury-update-josh-inglis-closes-in-on-century-marnus-labuschagne-facing-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944940\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 LIVE cricket scores: Third Test, Day 3 highlights, results, latest updates; Steve Smith neck injury update; Josh Inglis closes in on century; Marnus Labuschagne facing the axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Inglis is closing in on an unlikely century, after overcoming a finger injury and earning a recall to the Test team in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>While he already has a ton to his name, the right-hander has been forced to sit on the Aussie sidelines more often than not in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries, batting order reshuffles and uncertainty over the XI has meant that while Inglis was always around the squad, his opportunities were limited.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the 31-year-old is just 15 runs away from adding to his maiden century against Sri Lanka last year, in a series that looked easy at times for batsmen.<\/p>\n<p>But you have to wonder if Inglis would have played earlier in this series, whether he could have made a significant impact with the willow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793262132_401_a013271f443e3daa4df92cc7fdf88abbf229d11f.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Josh Inglis goes down the pitch.\u00a0AP Photo\/Halden Krog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Inglis is closing in on an unlikely century, after overcoming a finger injury and earning a recall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-944940","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\/944940","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=944940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}