{"id":945212,"date":"2026-10-29T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945212\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:44:10","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-live-proteas-lose-second-wicket-as-starc-hazlewood-strike-early-in-second-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945212\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Proteas lose second wicket as Starc, Hazlewood strike early in second innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African skipper Graeme Smith hasn\u2019t hidden his disgust at the Proteas losing two early wickets in this crucial second innings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spoken about South Africa making Australia earn their wickets and the first two have been soft,\u201d Smith said on SuperSport\u2019s coverage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australia\u2019s Nathan Lyon, right, takes a catch to dismiss South Africa\u2019s David Bedingham, as teammate Michael Neser looks on.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dfbf41d80d6cd912c666f81cd533ae68a2f7780d.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Australia\u2019s Nathan Lyon, right, takes a catch to dismiss South Africa\u2019s David Bedingham, as teammate Michael Neser looks on.AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarkram looking to drive on the up and Bedingham, you would think he would learn from the first innings; that shot is just not for him with the way that he plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s another occasion when he is caught on the pull and he never looks in the right position &#8211; always off balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was his batting coach, I\u2019ll tell him to take that shot into the dressing room and leave it there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SAF 2-42, trailing by 62 runs as Ackerman 24 and Bavuma 2 bat on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former South African skipper Graeme Smith hasn\u2019t hidden his disgust at the Proteas losing two early wickets in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-945212","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\/945212","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=945212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}