{"id":797573,"date":"2026-10-10T01:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:04:11","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-live-cricket-scores-first-test-day-1-highlights-results-latest-updates-bad-light-stops-play-matthew-renshaws-support-for-nic-maddinson-after-horror-comeba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797573\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 LIVE cricket scores: First Test, day 1 highlights, results, latest updates; Bad light stops play; Matthew Renshaw\u2019s support for Nic Maddinson after horror comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at Australia\u2019s recent Test innings totals makes for grim reading.<\/p>\n<p>These were the 17 innings totals that preceded this Test, not including innings in which Australia chased and won: 210, 198, 284, 567, 152, 132, 371, 349, 511, 132, 205, 225, 121, 286, 243, 180 and 310.<\/p>\n<p>So, from those 17 innings, Australia failed to reach 250 on 10 occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Those innings span this year\u2019s home series against Bangladesh, last summer\u2019s home Ashes and the 2025 tour of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, the Aussies have again struggled with the bat in the first innings of the South Africa series, limping to stumps on day one at 6-187.<\/p>\n<p>The tourists need Matthew Renshaw and Pat Cummins to go on with the promising partnership they\u2019ve begun to put together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9f7c0d04151538bf7152c628a5dd040381b1b347.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Marnus Labuschagne after losing his wicket in Durban.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at Australia\u2019s recent Test innings totals makes for grim reading. These were the 17 innings totals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797573","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=797573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}