Comments on Twitter: Bowlers lead Australia to victory in Gabba Test against South Africa within 2 days
The long awaited Gabba test between Australia and South Africa lasted just two days and the hosts managed a win by six wickets. It was only the second time in history that a test match in Australia was completed in two days.
The green top surface wreaked havoc on both batting positions as 34 wickets fell in six sessions of the match. After packing South Africa for 99 on Sunday afternoon, Australia only had a target of 34 runs to win the game.
The chase, which could have been a cakewalk, was nothing but sheer chaos as the hosts ended up losing four wickets before finally reaching the target.
Earlier in the day, Australia resumed their first innings at 5/145, with Travis head cruising into a new Test century. However, the left-handed batter fell eight runs short of a three-digit score after being ejected by Proteas sailor. Mark Jansen. The rest of Australia’s lower order couldn’t do much, with the home side only managing to take a 66 lead in the first innings, which turned out to be more than enough in the end.
Australian skipper Pat Cummins was the main destroyer in the second innings, taking his eighth five-wicket haul in the red-ball format and finishing with figures of 5/42 from 12.4 overs as the tourists were bundled for 99 – their lowest team total at Australian bottom in 90 years.
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Short scores: Australia 218 (Travis Head 92, Kagiso Rabada 4/76) and 35/4 (Marnus Labuschagne 5*, Rabada 4/13) beat South Africa 152 (Kyle Verreynne 64, Nathan Lyon 3/14) and 99 (Temba Bavuma 29 , Pat Cummins 5/42) with six wickets.
Here’s how Twitter responded:
Australia gets the job done. But not without a few fears! #AUSvSA
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 18, 2022
It was fun, but it all went too fast.
The pitch is too grassy and green, especially when you have two excellent bowling units that don’t need generous terms to impress. #AUSvSA— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket) December 18, 2022
Strike rate of less than 50 for 300 test wickets… the man has taken a lot of flak for a guy who has been an absolute weapon. Congratulations, Mitchell Starc 👏 #AUSvSA
— Corbin Middlemas (@Corbin Middlemas) December 18, 2022
Cameron Green is a three-foot-tall, three-foot-wide wingspan of death in the gully #AUSvSA
— Louis Cameron (@LouisDBCameron) December 18, 2022
Pat Cummins as Australian captain
13 matches
9 wins
3 pulls
1 defeat#AUSvSA— Nic Wilde (@nic_savage1) December 18, 2022
I’ll be glad I don’t get up at 2am tomorrow, but this is comfortably the worst test I’ve taken. Much will be said about the pitch – and yes, it’s a shame that SA has to hit a lot on surfaces like this – but more needs to be said about the batsman.#AUSvSA
— Firdose Moonda (@FirdoseM) December 18, 2022
Dean Elgar in Tests in Aus:
0, 0, 12, 127, 17, 5, 0, 3, 2
166 runs @ 18.44#AUSvSA
— Adam Burnett (@AdamBurnett09) December 18, 2022
Chase with the lowest goal in Tests when a bowler took a haul of four wickets:
34 – Kagiso Rabada🇿🇦 v AUS, today
65 – Nick Cook v PAK, 1984
73 – Manny Martindale🏝️ v ENG, 1935
74 – Sanath Jayasuriya🇱🇰 v ENG, 2001
78 – Muttiah Muralitharan🇱🇰 v ENG, 2006#AUSvSA— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) December 18, 2022
Mitchell Starc’s 300th test wicket is insanely beautiful 🤩 #AUSvSA pic.twitter.com/fxHq32bAmc
— Chloe-Amanda Bailey (@ChloeAmandaB) December 18, 2022
The first Test match between Australia and South Africa ended in 144.2 overs.
— Jans. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 18, 2022
Perhaps it’s because he’s a current player that he isn’t spoken of in a more respectful tone, but I don’t think Australian fans appreciate enough how good a Test bowler Mitchell Starc has been. 7th Australian to 300, and the best pass rate of all. #AUSvSA
— Andrew Wu (@wutube) December 18, 2022
Rabada claimed 4-13 (perhaps he was just a bit peeved by another botched batting attempt)
Australia won by 6 wickets and led 1-0 after just 2 days#AUSvSA
— ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA) December 18, 2022
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