{"id":782366,"date":"2026-09-25T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782366\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:10:13","slug":"australia-could-face-a-trial-by-spin-in-south-africa-tests-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782366\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia could face a trial by spin in South Africa Tests in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s still a couple of weeks to the first Test, I&#8217;ll just concentrate on the next two games, but obviously it&#8217;s nice to see a wicket turning,&#8221; Connolly, who played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/series\/australia-in-sri-lanka-2024-25-1459900\/sri-lanka-vs-australia-2nd-test-1459907\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his previous Test<\/a> in Sri Lanka in early 2025, said after the first ODI where he was only given a single over. &#8220;It helps me, I guess, put my best foot forward to playing in that team. But we&#8217;ve still got two one-dayers to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s still a couple of weeks to the first Test, I&#8217;ll just concentrate on the next two games,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}