{"id":948217,"date":"2026-11-01T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948217\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:40:10","slug":"cricket-news-2026-travis-head-social-media-antics-backfire-australia-vs-south-africa-result-marco-jansen-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948217\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket News 2026: Travis Head social media antics backfire, Australia vs South Africa result, Marco Jansen celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s Marco Jansen delivered a stinging send-off to Travis Head<\/a> on the deciding day of the third and final Test against South Africa<\/a>, throwing the Australian<\/a> star\u2019s signature celebration right back at him.<\/p>\n

When the tall left-armer secured the catch off a superb Kagiso Rabada delivery, he wasn\u2019t about to let the Australian star wander back to the pavilion quietly. <\/p>\n

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Marco Jansen\u2019s celebration.\u00a0Ashley Vlotman<\/p>\n

The crucial dismissal left Australia reeling at 3-22 in pursuit of 288, sending the raucous Cape Town crowd into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

Just as Head turned for the long walk back to the sheds, Jansen unleashed a celebration that directly mimicked the Australian\u2019s familiar gestures.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s my idol, so I was just trying to mimic him,\u201d Jansen said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were batting, we obviously saw how he celebrated, and it just sort of happens. It just happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jansen was named Player of the Match on Sunday morning (AEDT). <\/p>\n

The fiery reaction proved the South African camp had clearly taken note of Head\u2019s social media antics earlier in the Test series.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Australia\u2019s commanding 214-run victory in Durban<\/a>, Head shared a social media post making light of Proteas captain Temba Bavuma.<\/p>\n

In what was clearly an AI video, it showed Bavuma watching as Josh Hazlewood \u2013 who starred with the ball in the first Test \u2013 celebrating on a dancefloor.<\/p>\n

The cheeky re-share from Head didn\u2019t got unnoticed from eagle-eyed fans on social media and it came back to bite him and the Aussies.<\/p>\n

Bavuma acknowledged the post prompted some locker-room chat among his teammates, but he wasn\u2019t about to label it a motivating factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot me personally, to be honest,\u201d Bavuma said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard about it, but I didn\u2019t see the video. I guess the guys ripped me off, as they always do in the changing room. I think it just spoke to the intensity, I guess, and the importance of the series. It\u2019s a part of the story, right, if I put it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t think it added any extra motivation. The motivation and desire was always there to achieve what we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s Marco Jansen delivered a stinging send-off to Travis Head on the deciding day of the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-948217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948217","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=948217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}