Australia choose to bowl v South Africa
On the greenest Gabba pitch each Ricky Ponting and Justin Langer have seen, Pat Cummins requested South Africa to bat first towards his 4-seam assault. Cummins returns to the Test XI after lacking the second match towards West Indies with a quadriceps niggle and can lead a pack that’s lacking Josh Hazlewood, however contains Scott Boland, Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green.
A stern take a look at, or as captain Dean Elgar put it, a “good challenge,” awaits a South African line-up who’ve collectively solely scored two a whole bunch on this World Test Championship cycle, the least among the many competing groups.
Both centurions: Sarel Erwee and Kyle Verreynne are within the line-up, which sees a return for Rassie van der Dussen and Temba Bavuma from respective accidents. Van der Dussen broke his left index finger in England whereas Bavuma has had an elbow challenge and has not performed any aggressive purple-ball cricket because the Bangladesh Tests in April.
The most attention-grabbing alternative is the choice to maintain Khaya Zondo at No. 5. Zondo batted for the primary time in Tests in England and was most popular over Heinrich Klaasen, who’s third on this season’s home 4-day run charts and Theunis de Bruyn, who’s the one batter other than Elgar and Bavuma, to have expertise in Australia.
Despite toying with the concept of together with one in every of them as a seventh batter, South Africa caught with six specialist batters, a bowling allrounder in Marco Jansen at No.7, three specialist seamers and one spinner. Australia’s line-up is unchanged from the batters that did obligation towards West Indies.
A promote-out crowd is predicted for the opening day of the collection, which is a contest between the 2 prime-ranked groups on the WTC factors desk.
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Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Scott Boland
South Africa: 1 Dean Elgar (capt), 2 Sarel Erwee, 3 Rassie van der Dussen, 4 Temba Bavuma, 5 Khaya Zondo, 6 Kyle Verreynne (wk), 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Keshav Maharaj, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Anrich Nortje, 11 Lungi Ngidi