{"id":798709,"date":"2026-10-11T02:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798709\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:34:11","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-live-cricket-scores-first-test-day-2-highlights-results-latest-updates-matthew-renshaw-scores-century-aussies-burn-review-after-early-wicket-before-early-stumps-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798709\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 LIVE cricket scores: First Test, day 2 highlights, results, latest updates; Matthew Renshaw scores century; Aussies burn review after early wicket before early stumps called"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the likes of Marco Jansen and Wiaan Mulder ripped through the Aussies on day one, it looked like the South African bowlers were going to enjoy the luxury of a light first-up workload and an early innings break.<\/p>\n

Only 42 overs had been bowled when the departure of Beau Webster left the Aussies in trouble at 6-124.<\/p>\n

Matthew Renshaw and Pat Cummins had other ideas, and when all was said and done, the Aussies had kept the Proteas in the field for 137.2 overs.<\/p>\n

Jansen ended up bowling 31 overs, Anrich Nortje 28 and Mulder 27.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was sort of just thinking what we can try and do, trying to just find the right options, find a boundary if we could,\u201d Renshaw said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut once they sort of started spreading that field, it was tough. It was almost trying to hit twos.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I knew the time that we\u2019re spending out there, \u2018Gaz\u2019 (Nathan Lyon) was occasionally getting a nice boundary, that was the benefit for us was just keeping them out in the field, getting their quicks coming back on. We got some overs in their front-line (bowlers) in the first innings of the first game, which is always nice for this coming series.\u201d<\/p>\n

Renshaw faced 397 balls in his marathon knock that yielded 190 runs.<\/p>\n

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Anrich Nortje in action.\u00a0Gerhard Duraan\/Gallo Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the likes of Marco Jansen and Wiaan Mulder ripped through the Aussies on day one, it looked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798709","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\/798709","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=798709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}