END OF OVER:20 | 10 Runs | SA: 164/8 | RR: 8.20
- Lungi Ngidi13 (7b)
- Lizaad Williams1 (3b)
- Nathan Ellis4-1-25-3
- Sean Abbott4-0-22-3
Chase coming up soon. Australia need 165 to seal the series. Atmosphere at the ground is great, a gripping back-half is on the cards. Stay tuned.
Nathan Ellis: It's been a while since I've played for Australia. First time I'm here, tried to adapt and enjoy my game at the same time. (On finding success as a mystery bowler) You get hit for sixes and fours but you've gotta try and adapt quickly. What I like about a series like this it gives a chance to show your variations and there's a cat and mouse. Loving it, I try to keep evolving and keep my name in the Australian XI. Hope the team wraps it up. We're enjoying and expressing ourselves. Wicket offered a bit more today, with the new ball. Not sure if that's because of the overheads. But as Markram showed, if you get set you can cash in and we hope to do that tonight.
7:31pm: High fives from Marsh to his team-mates. They restricted South Africa to 164 but that score didn't look as likely, especially after the mini-collapse post powerplay. The early momentum built by Bavuma with his 17-ball 35 seemed to have been lost. Ellis and Abbott were getting the better of the batters. But Stubbs made a proactive 27 as Markram bode time. Stubbs' wicket led to Coetzee falling not long after. Markram took the hosts to the edge of 150 with his 49. Ellis and Abbott bowled well at the end but a few late runs from Ngidi took the hosts to what seems to be a score around par.
sandeep: "Talat Ali from Pakistan." mohsin: "talat. hussain.... pakistani player.. spell same" Two more entries to the palindrome set. Shanu: "My language "Malayalam" is a Palindromic word. Not related to cricket though. "
Final over
END OF OVER:19 | 7 Runs 1 Wkt | SA: 154/8 | RR: 8.10
- Lungi Ngidi5 (2b)
- Lizaad Williams1 (2b)
- Sean Abbott4-0-22-3
- Nathan Ellis3-1-16-3
Sue: "Pity Markram was 'caught Short' of his fifty.."
Owais: "@Aqueel: BOB Woolmer. " Think we need to go four/five letters at least. But Bob works
AK Markram c Short b Abbott 49 (62m 38b 3x4 2x6) SR: 128.94
Raji: "Naman Ojha"
END OF OVER:18 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | SA: 147/7 | RR: 8.16
- Aiden Markram48 (36b)
- Nathan Ellis3-1-16-3
- Adam Zampa4-0-42-0
Aqueel : "Markram spells same from both ends. Its a Palindrome. Do we have any more such cricketers names..." Must be, can't remember from the top of the mind
G Coetzee c Marsh b Ellis 11 (16m 11b 1x4 0x6) SR: 100.00
Ellis, who took two in two balls earlier, is back. Can he stop Markram?
END OF OVER:17 | 13 Runs | SA: 139/6 | RR: 8.17
- Aiden Markram46 (34b)
- Gerald Coetzee6 (7b)
- Adam Zampa4-0-42-0
- Aaron Hardie3-0-29-0