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6-16 is Simon Harmer's cheapest haul of 6 wickets or more in an innings of the 34 he has in first-class cricket.
Consolation for skipper Pat Cummins - he has snatched the record for Australia's slowest 11 in Tests (90 balls) from his team-mate Nathan Lyon (77 balls in 2012-13)...
Australia really must stop scoring 111. This is the eighth time they have done this, and they've gone on to lose the lot.
With RSA 5-232 in their second innings, their series batting average is 32.77. Australia's is 31.82. Very close, but RSA slightly ahead. That's what this series feels like for me....
At the start of play, WinViz had Aus 58%, RSA 36%. Now showing RSA 43%, Aus 40%. I'm inclined to agree...
The Shield match at Bellerive last week saw Tas prevail after being 7/45 in the first innings. In the history of SS cricket, there has only been one lower 1st-inns 7-down score where the team went on to win - in 1968 at Adelaide, SA were 7/38, but hung on to beat Qld by 14 runs.
Josh Inglis joins 26 other Australians to have two Test centuries in their first 6 Tests. And the last one was....?
You have to go back eight Tests (Brisbane, v Eng) to find a Test where Australia had four or more batters contributing 50+...
The Carey/Inglis partnership of 145* breaks the record by Australia for the 5th wicket at Cape Town...previously 140 by Neil Harvey and Sam Loxton in 1949-50 (literally - it started in 1949 and finished in 1950!).
Amazing to think, after RSA’s rollicking start, that Australia would score more on Day 2 than RSA did on Day 1!
Marnus's 42 innings here only surpassed in all Test cricket by India's CPujara , who once went 46 innings at #3 without a century...
Longest sequence of scores less than 100 by Aus batters at #3:
42 Marnus
24 CHill
23 DBoon
23 IRedpath
23 RPonting
22 UKhawaja
22 Marnus
22 GBlewett
21 NO'Neill
20 KHughes
Longest sequence of scores less than 100 by Aus batters at #3:
42 Marnus
24 CHill
23 DBoon
23 IRedpath
23 RPonting
22 UKhawaja
22 Marnus
22 GBlewett
21 NO'Neill
20 KHughes
#3 batters in the Sheffield Shield with 1000+ runs since 2021:
1973 KPatterson (40.27)
1525 Marnus (40.13)
1327 TWard (40.21)
1171 PHandscomb (58.55)
1132 NMcSweeney (29.79)
1046 CWakim (32.69)
% of innings out bowled by the 7 Australian players in this Test series who have batted 100 innings:
24 THead
18 PCummins
18 MStarc
17 NLyon
16 SSmith
12 Marnus
12 JHazlewood