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Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size 8.02pmTechnology denies Australia 6.44pmYour view: South Africa’s first innings 6.43pmFourteen wickets tumble at Lord’s on day one as Ange Postecoglou watches on 6.42pm‘Oh, man!’ - Proteas ruing crucial miss in WTC final Hide key posts Go to latest Pinned post from 6.44pm Your view: South Africa’s first innings Latest posts Latest posts Technology denies Australia Australia have the breakthrough they need - or do they? Temba Bavuma, on 17, was given out lbw to an extremely confident Josh Hazlewood, who launched into a celebrappeal. Bavuma called for the review but not immediately, which suggests he did not think he had hit the ball. The technology, however, detected a sound as the ball passed the bat, so Richard Kettleborough has told field umpire Chris Gaffaney to reverse his decision. Bavuma survives. At the start of play, the boffins at CricViz rated Australia a 64 per cent chance of winning the game, and South Africa 36 per cent. The numbers are now 59-41, still in Australia’s favour, but they show how promisingly the Proteas have started the day. Their preparedness to play their shots has forced Australia to take men out of catching positions into the deep, and prompted Mitchell Starc to bowl a more conservative line and length. Though skies are cloudy, the ball does not seem to be doing as much off the seam. Bavuma on the attack Temba Bavuma is has taken a leaf out of the “ball has your number on it” playbook. He’s showing plenty of aggression, I mean intent, against the Australians. When the ball has been pitched up, he is not afraid at all to drive, over the top if he needs to. This is the advantage the South Africans have, chasing a first innings total like 212. Even 30-45 minutes of batting like this will put the pressure back on the Australians, who don’t have the runs on the board to maintain attacking fields. Straight away, Pat Cummins has pulled Nathan Lyon out to deep point, and taken one of the three slips he started the day with out of the cordon. Bavuma does not care. He’s taken on the new man in the deep for a boundary. This is an impressive start by the Proteas, who after three overs today have advanced to 4/55, 157 behind Australia. ‘There’s a ball with your name on it’ Play hasn’t started yet and we’re already into “there’s a ball with your name on it” areas. Not surprisingly, it’s former England star Kevin Pietersen with that read on the game. As a batter, Pietersen was an entertainer who erred on the side of aggression. I wonder if the Proteas have the same mindset or if they will at least assess the conditions first before playing their shots. Mitchell Starc is bowling the first over of the day, and he’s already beaten Bavuma with the second ball, tempting the Proteas skipper into a drive to a full-ish delivery well away from his body. Advertisement Bavuma the key wicket After an engrossing first day when ball dominated bat, what sort of day are we going to be in for? Australia are three wickets away from getting into the Proteas tail, so there’s still a bit of batting to come. The key wicket will be skipper Temba Bavuma, who has so much riding on his shoulders. The player I’m looking forward to seeing is wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne, who showed a lot of fight with the bat when the two sides last met in the 2022/23 series in Australia. Welcome, from London By Daniel Brettig It’s warm with patches of cloud over London for day two and Australia will hope the ball keeps swinging in the hands of Mitchell Starc, as they look to secure a first innings lead. Should that happen, we will again be watching Marnus Labuschagne fight for his Test career at the top of the order, after a first innings that hinted at promise but did not ultimately deliver. Labuschagne’s footwork looked sharp and he found areas to score early on, before becoming bogged down and edging Marco Jansen behind. Steve Smith, who looked assured for 66, had this to say about Labuschagne: “I thought he started pretty well. He looked really sharp in his movements. He left really nicely. He was solid in defence and he played some really good shots. So, yeah, I think it would have been nice to have gone on and made a few more, as it would have been for all of us out there. But I think we can take some positives on the way he was moving and the way he was playing.” Your view: South Africa’s first innings Advertisement Fourteen wickets tumble at Lord’s on day one as Ange Postecoglou watches on By Daniel Brettig London: Ange Postecoglou watched intently from a box in the Tavern Stand as Australia and South Africa did their best to emulate the famous first day of a Lord’s Test match 20 years ago. In 2005, England revelled in the dismissal of Ricky Ponting’s mighty Australians for 190, only to be flummoxed by Glenn McGrath and reduced to 7-92 at the close. Ange Postecoglou looks on during day one of the World Test Championship Final between South Africa and Australia at Lord’s Cricket Ground.Credit: Getty Images If not quite so dramatic, the opening exchanges of the World Test Championship final carried a similar sense of undulation in north London, as Kagiso Rabada humbled Australia for 212, before Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood left South Africa wobbling at 4-43 by stumps. For Postecoglou, who was happy to relax at side stage as a guest of Cricket Australia after two dramatic years with Tottenham Hotspur, the game’s fast-forward nature kept him and more than 26,000 other spectators very much on the edges of their seats. There is brittleness in evidence among the batters on both sides, and they were fully stretched by quality fast bowling and a pitch that did more than its straw-coloured visage might have at first suggested. In all, nine wickets fell for 64 runs in the day’s final session. Click here to read the story. ‘Oh, man!’ - Proteas ruing crucial miss in WTC final South Africa are ruing a costly non-review after Australia’s pace juggernaut hit back during a rollicking first day of the World Test Championship final at Lord’s. Kagsio Rabada (5-51) threw a mighty first punch, justifying Proteas captain Temba Bavuma’s call to bowl first with his 17th five-wicket haul to help skittle Australia for 212. Kagiso Rabada of South Africa appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Steve Smith.Credit: Getty Images But rank underdogs South Africa, aiming to break a 27-year title drought in ICC tournaments, were left reeling at 4-43 by stumps. Their batters left the famous London venue in a daze on Wednesday evening (Thursday AEST) following a masterful final session of bowling from Australia’s famed pace trio - Mitchell Starc (2-10), Pat Cummins (1-14), and Josh Hazlewood (1-10). South Africa earlier used two unsuccessful reviews on allrounder Beau Webster - which were ruled as umpire’s call - but failed to refer a third which would have had the towering Tasmanian trapped lbw for only eight. No.6 Webster, in just his fourth Test, went on to top score for Australia with a career-best 72. Their eventual total could have been well below 200 had Webster departed early given Australia lost 5-20 to end their innings. “(Squad member) Corbin Bosch came down to fine leg, and he says it was out,” Rabada recalled when he discovered the Proteas had blown an opportunity. “I was like, ‘oh man!’. It was a bit annoying. “He (Webster) didn’t start off too well out there. “Looked like he was going to get out any ball, but I guess his positive intent got him through.” Steve Smith (66) was still coughing after battling through flu to put on a crucial 79-run stand with Webster after Australia were limping at 4-67. “It looked pretty good to me from the other end. I don’t know what happened actually,” Smith said of South Africa not using a review. “I know Beau was in a little bit of pain; I don’t think it actually hit his pad, I think it just hit his leg. “They had a chance to use a referral and didn’t.” Bavuma (three) will resume in the middle on Thursday with David Bedingham (eight). This AAP article was made possible by support from Amazon Prime Video, which is broadcasting the World Test Championship final. Hello and welcome to our cricket live blog on day two of the World Test Championship final at Lord’s in London. I’m Andrew Wu and play is scheduled to resume at 7.30pm AEST. Enjoy the action to come. 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