{"id":800421,"date":"2026-10-12T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800421\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:24:08","slug":"south-africa-vs-australia-matt-renshaw-stars-again-as-tourists-close-on-statement-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800421\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa vs Australia: Matt Renshaw stars again as tourists close on statement victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Test, Durban (day four of five)<\/p>\n

Australia 390 & 314-6 dec: Renshaw 82; Nortje 2-56, Maharaj 2-56<\/p>\n

South Africa 284 & 102-4: Bedingham 46, Markram 45*; Hazlewood 2-20<\/p>\n

South Africa need 319 runs to win <\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

Australia are primed to earn a statement victory and end South Africa’s unbeaten run under captain Temba Bavuma after Matt Renshaw’s remarkable Test continued on day four of their series opener in Durban.<\/p>\n

Renshaw, in his second game back after a three-year absence, followed his 190 in the first innings with 89 to allow Australia to declare on 314-6. The 30-year-old then dismissed Bavuma with his part-time off-spin late in the day for his first Test wicket.<\/p>\n

Captain Pat Cummins followed with a perfect set-up of Tristan Stubbs – pushing him back with shorter balls before nicking him off with a full delivery – to leave South Africa 102-4 at the close.<\/p>\n

Set a world record 421 to win, they need to bat out the final day for a draw with six wickets remaining.<\/p>\n

South Africa have won 11 and drawn one of their Tests under Bavuma’s captaincy, including their run to the 2025 World Test Championship final where they beat Australia at Lord’s.<\/p>\n

This is the first Test in a South African summer that includes two more against the Australians, two against Bangladesh and three against England over Christmas.<\/p>\n

Even bad light, which cut short the first three days, did not come to South Africa’s aid on the fourth evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Test, Durban (day four of five) Australia 390 & 314-6 dec: Renshaw 82; Nortje 2-56, Maharaj 2-56…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800421","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=800421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}