Former cricket Matthew Hayden and Dale Steyn were confused by Australian defense thinking in the 3rd World Test Championship against South Africa. From the fact that they have a game in their hand after Mitchell Starc’s heroic efforts with a bat, the advocates let it slip after they did not score one goal in the final session of the game.
Temba Bavum and Aiden Markram dominated driving with a 143-running partnership and led South Africa to the top of history. The unjust partnership helped South Africa to reach 69 runs from the winning sum, which stood on a massive 282 runs at the beginning of the final shifts.
The first two days of the test match scored twenty -eight goals in Lord’s. Australia was able to reject Opener Ryan Rickelton on Friday and then managed to avert the short storm Wiaan Mulder on No. 3. But after Mulder’s release, Australia returned to their shell and waited for Bavum or Mardram to make a mistake. On Friday there were two options against the entertainment, but Australia was unable to catch one of them.
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As soon as Bavum and Markram began to beat the runs, Cummins pulled his field from the catching positions and published several of them in deep areas to stop the border. This made it easier for life and Markram, who ticked singles and doubles throughout the day.
“You know, this defensive effort from Australia was all about how they were going to take goals and how they would do it soon,” said Matthew Hayden after a day game on Friday.
“You know when they got to Mulder, walked through Rickelton and had to put pressure on the Bavum at that moment. They had to put the catching cover areas, had to be less defensive, more attacking. Can you imagine these first few balls?
“Drifting of the nature of the game has just made it possible to rotate the strike, allowed this partnership to grow and build confidence, and it just got from the Australian bowling lineup. Yes, it is flat conditions, but you have to take 10 goals to defend the World Championship.
No catching field
Dale Steyn was also surprised by the Australian tactics and said they should have been catching positions on the pitch where he didn’t even travel the ball to slip.
“Yeah, I think a little surprised. This is when it doesn’t travel and gets to slip, you have to have those boys in such catching positions,” Steyn added to Hayden.
Australia will come out 4. The day of the test match with 69 runs in hand. At the end of the day, the assistant coach Daniel Vettori yelled and said it was just a matter of one goal to make the party into the proteanic bats.
Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
14 June 2025
