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Starc has drawn an enquiry from behind the wicket, Elgar playing at one outside off. Half-hearted appeal as Carey takes a crawling catch behind the wicket and the umpires refer to the TV official just to double-check if there was bat or a bump ball.
Cummins gets the radar sorted somewhat and the Proteas are circumspect and leaving the offerings well outside off stump alone.And we’re underway. Dean Elgar facing up and he holds the key - easily South Africa’s most experienced batter, Mitchell Starc operating with three slips and a gully to start. By putting a match to a piece of four-year-old sandpaper – or touchpaper? - Warner has managed to reignite the history of antagonism that has produced such intense, fractious, often riveting cricket between South Africa and Australia. His employers should be thanking him.As commentators talk up the green monster out in the middle, apparently 5mm of grass on top of what is historically a fun day one pitch, South Africa’s batting has hardly set the world alight in recent times.
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