On the first day of the third Test match between South Africa and Australia being played in Cape Town, South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada registered a shameful record in his name, which he would not like to remember. On the first day of the match, Rabada could not even open his account in front of the lethal bowling of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc. He has now become the batsman to get out for a duck the most number of times for South Africa in Test cricket. This was the 23rd time in the history of Test cricket when Rabada returned to the pavilion on a duck. In this case, he broke the record of Morne Morkel who was out for duck 22 times.
South Africa got a great start
In this decisive and exciting match of the series between South Africa and Australia, the host team, which came to bat first after losing the toss, had a good start. At one time, South Africa played brilliantly and laid the foundation for a big score, but later the Australian bowlers made a brilliant comeback and bundled out the entire team for 329 runs in 82.3 overs. At the end of the innings, Mitchell Starc wreaked havoc and broke the back of the African batting order. Starc ended South Africa’s innings by dismissing Kagiso Rabada LBW on the third ball of the 83rd over of the innings on a personal score of zero.
Rabada is performing brilliantly in bowling
Even though Kagiso Rabada is counted among the most dangerous bowlers in the world, he has a bad record in his name in Test cricket, which he would never want to remember. On the first day of the match, the entire South African team collapsed for 329 runs in front of the stormy bowling of Australian bowler Mitchell Starc. In this innings, South Africa’s lower order batsmen could not stand against Australia’s Mitchell Starc. After the end of the first day’s play, the match has now become very exciting and all eyes are on how Australia performs in batting in its first innings.
4 South African batsmen scored half centuries
A total of 4 batsmen scored half-centuries in the first innings of this match for South Africa. In this, his top-3 batsmen scored 3 fifties. Marcus Ackermann was the highest run scorer for the team in this innings. He played an inning of 95 runs in 94 balls. He hit 12 fours and two sixes. Markram scored 78 runs, David Bedingham scored 50 runs and Marco Jansen scored 52 runs. Mitchell Starc took maximum 6 wickets for Australia.
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