{"id":947793,"date":"2026-10-31T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947793\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:50:11","slug":"cricket-news-2026-australia-vs-south-africa-series-simon-harmer-wickets-david-warner-batters-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947793\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2026: Australia vs South Africa series; Simon Harmer wickets; David Warner batters criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia<\/a> has been scolded by David Warner<\/a> for an \u201cun-Australian\u201d batting display after Pat Cummins<\/a>\u2032 men were embarrassed on the final day of the third and final Test against South Africa. <\/p>\n

Turning up to Newlands, Australia needed 288 to win the match and series but instead were bowled out for 111, losing by 176 runs. <\/p>\n

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Simon Harmer bowled South Africa to victory over Australia.\u00a0AP Photo\/Halden Krog<\/p>\n

At lunch the visitors were 7-60 after a horror session that included lapses of judgement with the bat, a ridiculous runout and an lbw that could be Marnus Labuschagne\u2019s last act in Test cricket. <\/p>\n

At the innings break, Australia\u2019s former opener David Warner didn\u2019t hold back. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just upset, it\u2019s terrible, it\u2019s un-Australian, there\u2019s no fight whatsoever, it\u2019s disgraceful … it\u2019s on the line and this is the way they\u2019re playing, it\u2019s deplorable,\u201d he said on Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe batters have let the bowlers down all series, yes Renshaw showed fight in the first Test but I think the batters have been disgraceful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what headspace they\u2019re in at the moment. Is there a wine tour this afternoon? I have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Waugh was equally disappointed with what he saw.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve just got to throw the ball down the other end at the moment. That was a terrible two hours of batting, that was immature,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Kerry O\u2019Keeffe added the attitude in the morning suggested Australia\u2019s day was never going to end well. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was mindless, the tactics, shot selection and turning down of singles,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a sense of doom today … the way they walked to the crease, everything was negative.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the break, Cameron Green and Pat Cummins attempted a fightback, blocking out several maidens and not taking runs when they were on offer. <\/p>\n

However, 13 overs after lunch Green had a lapse in concentration and charged down the wicket to Harmer who bowled him through the gate with a beautiful off-spinner. <\/p>\n

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Simon Harmer bowled South Africa to victory over Australia.\u00a0AP Photo\/Halden Krog<\/p>\n

The all-rounder walked off with 27 runs to his name off 110 balls as Australia\u2019s hopes ended. <\/p>\n

Cummins and Nathan Lyon showed fight, lasting more than 17 overs before the skipper was trapped lbw for 11 off 90 balls.<\/p>\n

Harmer then finished off proceedings, bowling Josh Hazlewood (0) with Lyon stranded on 33 not out. <\/p>\n

The South African off-spinner finished with career-best figures of 6-16 and took 10 for the match. <\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s loss means they drop to third on the World Test Championship rankings. New Zealand moved to first and South Africa is second. <\/p>\n

In the ICC Test rankings, South Africa is now first with Australia second. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has been scolded by David Warner for an \u201cun-Australian\u201d batting display after Pat Cummins\u2032 men were embarrassed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-947793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947793","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=947793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}