Matt Renshaw \u200cstruck a career-best 190 to guide Australia to 390 all out on day two of the \u200bfirst test against South Africa at Kingsmead on Saturday, as the home side reached 27-1 in reply before play was \u200bended prematurely by bad light.<\/p>\n
The touring side had been in a precarious position at 124-6 on \u200bthe opening day but Renshaw led \u200ca fightback before bad light stopped play on Friday and continued his \u200bform into the second morning, reaching his second Test ton almost a decade after his first against Pakistan \u200bin Sydney in 2017.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old brought up \u2060his century off 204 balls \u2060with his 10th four and was 102 not out at lunch, alongside Nathan \u200cLyon on seven.<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> Renshaw, who was expected to open the batting but surprisingly dropped down the order to No 5, was 46 not out overnight and moved to his half-century with a boundary off the second ball of the day.<\/p>\n Renshaw shared an 86-run partnership with captain Pat \u2060Cummins, before the skipper got a thick \u200bedge to Wiaan Mulder and was \u200bcaught at second slip by Aiden Markram for \u200b43.<\/p>\n Mulder bowled Mitchell Starc for six but by then \u2060Australia had added a healthy 43 runs to their overnight total of 187-6 as the pitch looked to \u2060have lost the bounce and movement \u200bof the first day.<\/p>\n Mulder was the pick of \u200bthe home bowlers with figures of 4-51 off 22 overs and could complete his \u200cfirst Test five-wicket \u200bhaul after lunch.<\/p>\n Watch day three of first Test live on Sky Sports from 8am Sunday (first ball 8.30am) Get the latest Sky Sports deals<\/a> or stream with no contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Renshaw \u200cstruck a career-best 190 to guide Australia to 390 all out on day two of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798365","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\/798365","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=798365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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