The result is Australia’s fabled foursome now have 607 wickets in Tests in which they have played as a quartet.<\/p>\n
The next most successful bowling four-pronged attack is James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali, who took 415 wickets in their 31 Tests together for England.<\/p>\n
“Each of these players will go down as a legend of Australian cricket,” said former Australia bowler Jason Gillespie on ABC Radio.<\/p>\n
“Starc got hit for a few early but I didn’t mind that. <\/p>\n
“Hazlewood was very good, as he always is. Cummins was hostile. He looked fresh.”<\/p>\n
Much has been made of Australia’s ageing side and a perceived lack of succession planning.<\/p>\n
At 37, Starc is the oldest of the three quicks but his average pace of 141.21km\/h in 2026 is higher than any of his past three years. He is also averaging his most swing in a calendar year since 2015.<\/p>\n
The concern for Australia comes when they are not fit, with Hazlewood having missed all five of last winter’s Ashes Tests and Cummins four.<\/p>\n
Australia’s issue right now is keeping each of their quartet on the field, because they appear as good as ever.<\/p>\n
At 33-0, Australia lead South Africa by 139 runs.<\/p>\n
Even with bad light halting play early again, they should have the time to press home an advantage across the Test’s final two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The result is Australia’s fabled foursome now have 607 wickets in Tests in which they have played as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799411","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\/799411","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=799411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}