Cam Bancroft fell cheaply to open the First Test
An old-fashioned tussle. A balanced contest.
Australia have picked the same team that won the final Ashes test in Sydney, with Smith announcing his side some 24 hours before the first ball.
The comparative slowness of the surface was instructive.
Cape Town - There was much, inevitable trumpeting of how the Test series between the Proteas and Australia might well pit the best two pace attacks in the world against each other.
"Durban's wickets have changed over the years", he said. This, after all, is the slow turning pitch where visiting spinners like Rangana Herath and Mushtaq Ahmed have twirled through South African sides. "That combination between Starc, Hazlewood and Cummins has been allowed to prosper because of the excellence of Nathan Lyon". But perhaps the selection of venue was.
Having been retained in the Australia side despite an underwhelming Ashes campaign in which technical faults around the off stump were exposed by the likes of James Anderson and Stuart Broad, Bancroft walked down the wicket to his second delivery from the precise Vernon Philander and edged behind.
"The guys have had a great Test series against England, so they're full of confidence and they started the tour game well".
At the same time he looked for breakout overseas performances from the likes of Cameron Bancroft, Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Marsh alongside the senior men.Most critical for Australia's chances in the looming bout will be the physical and mental readiness of the "big three" fast bowlers, who alongside Smith and Nathan Lyon were the difference for Australia in the Ashes. Within a few days he had to fly across the world, get over jet lag, and switch formats. "He worked me over and got me out", Warner said. Kagiso Rabada (1-58 off 16) removed the left-hander for just 14.
Kingsmead has lost the reputation it once had as a fast bowler's paradise. That was before Keshav Maharaj bobbed up as the threat.
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1 - David Warner became the first player to score fifty-plus in six consecutive Test inning in South Africa.
Asked whether he thought he was in trouble, Warner said: "I did because I took a different guard. I'm very excited to see Davey up and about - really exciting times ahead and hopefully a massive series for Davey".
"Your guess is as good as mine but what I can tell you is that he is extremely motivated for this series", du Plessis said. "That was a good delivery, and I'll thank my lucky stars".
Warner had a close call on 18 when Maharaj, with his first ball, went close to trapping him leg-before. Barely another turned all day, but the anomaly may have played a part in two later dismissals.
When he made his belated Test debut in Perth last summer, the left-arm finger spinner immediately trapped Smith lbw for a fourth-ball duck, later adding the scalps of Adam Voges and Mitchell Starc to finish with an impressive 3-56. A thin edge deflected up off de Kock's gloves and was caught easily by de Villiers at slip.
Then Marsh defended an innocuous ball accounting for turn, but it held its line and took his outside edge to the same position.
Mitchell Marsh 32, and keeper Tim Paine 21, stopped the rot with an unbeaten 48-run sixth wicket stand, but the score could have been over 300 for less wickets had the senior batsmen converted.
Kohli's eight - 167 and 235 (England), 204 (Bangladesh), 103, 154*, 213, and 243 against Sri Lanka, plus 153 against South Africa. But there is plenty yet to do. "Kingsmead (Durban) is a wicket where if you stop the scoring something will happen".
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