Usman Khawaja is on the verge of his first double century but continuing bad weather could rob the match of a result
Usman Khawaja’s spectacular love affair with the SCG and Sydney’s continuing dodgy weather may force captain Pat Cummins to impose his first follow-on as skipper.
Along the way, Smith became the sixth player to score 1000 Test runs at the SCG and went past Don Bradman’s 29 centuries to join Matthew Hayden on 30. Only Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting have more hundreds for Australia. Given South Africa’s highest score in their past eight innings is 204 and they have only three players in their line-up averaging above 30, the chances of Australia bowling them out with a lead of at least 200 is strong.
“I think there is starting to get a little bit more rough and, unfortunately, we’re at the end of day two and only had 120-odd overs [131, because of the weather], so it would have been nice to have a bit more traffic on the surface at this stage, but there is starting to get a little bit more going on there,” he said.
The decision in this Test is further complicated by the fact that allrounder Cameron Green could not be considered because of a broken finger, robbing the Australians of a genuine third seamer now they have played two spinners in Sydney.
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