{"id":806618,"date":"2026-10-18T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806618\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:38:11","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-cricket-scores-second-test-day-1-highlights-results-latest-updates-rain-ruins-play-in-frustrating-first-day-at-st-georges-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806618\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 cricket scores: Second Test, Day 1 highlights, results, latest updates; Rain ruins play in frustrating first day at St George\u2019s Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marques Ackerman is off the mark!<\/p>\n<p>It was a nervy moment too because Aiden Markram stopped and then went again after a misfield. <\/p>\n<p>But in the end Ackerman managed to get down the other end as his family celebrated in the crowd. <\/p>\n<p>But now we\u2019re going off for rain. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be frustrating for the crowd and all involved, they had a long, long wait,\u201d Nat Germanos said on Super Sport. <\/p>\n<p>A heart-warming moment as the players walked off too with Ackerman waving to his son in the crowd. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c893e6f6c0720f1155c423beb220d8a71be594063b62073592cc568e001acdae.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Marcus Ackerman waves to his son.\u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marques Ackerman is off the mark! It was a nervy moment too because Aiden Markram stopped and then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806618","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\/806618","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=806618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}