Katich said on SEN.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cSouth Africa have outsmarted Australia once again in this series. All they had to do was change ends.<\/p>\n
\u201cStraight in the rough\u2026 bang. Top of off stump, bye-bye.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green had returned to the Australian side for the third Test after missing the opening two matches with an abdominal muscle tear, making 65 runs in the first innings before his second-innings dismissal.<\/p>\n
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Cameron Green was clean bowled by Simon Harmer in the third Test.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
But for SEN\u2019s Gerard Whateley, the manner in which Green was dismissed was one of the worst he had witnessed in Test cricket.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my time calling Test Cricket, that is the most mortifying wicket I have ever seen,\u201d Whateley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralia hid its number four from Simon Harmer from the 16th over to the 39th over.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, they switched his ends and first ball, Green got clean bowled.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a brilliant tactical move from South African captain Temba Bavuma, who recognised Australia\u2019s attempts to keep Green away from Harmer and made the switch on a wearing day-five pitch.<\/p>\n
Australian cricket great Kerry O\u2019Keeffe had warned foxsports.com.au before play about the danger Harmer posed to Australia\u2019s right-handers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe bowled pretty well in the first innings, and he\u2019ll trouble the right-handers more because there\u2019s that rough patch outside their off stump,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe told foxsports.com.au before day five\u2019s play.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe left-handers have it a little bit easier, but he\u2019s a wily customer, and really Harmer\u2019s day will decide the match.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every Wicket: Australia’s Day 5 Collapse | 09:57<\/p>\n
Harmer did exactly that, finishing with six wickets in the second innings and 10 for the match as South Africa secured the series victory.<\/p>\n
But it was the manner of Green\u2019s dismissal that left Whateley stunned, with the SEN commentator issuing a stern warning to Australia over their decision to shield their No.4 batter from the spinner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are certain ways to meet your fate. This is not it for Australia,\u201d Whateley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not meet your fate like this, and it is going to be a big part of the postmortems. They are proper postmortems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katich followed with a strong assessment of Australia\u2019s batting struggles, suggesting the problems had been building for some time.<\/p>\n
With constant changes, questionable selections and poor performances throughout recent series, Katich questioned the excuses being made for Australia\u2019s struggling batting group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been brewing for a while,\u201d Katich said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you constantly keep making excuses for the players, guess what? They will latch on to them.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s batting order came under fire following the third Test defeat.Source: AP<\/p>\n
\u201cThat has got to change, because it has come from within this set-up and protected this batting group for too long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katich finished with another warning for Australia, who will now turn their attention to a Test series against New Zealand on home soil this summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is exactly what Matthew Hayden was talking about prior to the series about mediocrity,\u201d Katich said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are going to allow that mediocrity to grow, this is the sort of performance you get.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s batting struggles ultimately proved costly, with South Africa claiming a 2-1 series victory after winning the final Test by 176 runs, following their innings and 31-run victory in the second Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Green\u2019s dismissal to Simon Harmer in the second innings of the final Test against South Africa has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,85],"class_list":["post-948299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948299","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=948299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}