Welcome to news.com.au’s live coverage of Day 2 of the first Test between Australia and South Africa in Brisbane.
A thrilling opening day of games saw 15 wickets fall in front of the green monster at the Gabba with the tourists clawing their way back into the contest with some late wickets.
After passing just 152, South Africa had Australia 5/145 at stumps.
The Aussie tail offered little resistance as wickets continued to fall on Sunday.
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Australia’s total gives the home side a 66-run lead heading into the second innings.
Take a look below to see all the action as it unfolds (all times AEDT).
2.15 pm: South Africa in an extreme situation
The South African batting line-up is crumbling again after Sarel Erwee’s dismissal for just three runs.
Cameron Green took a fantastic catch over his head at gully after Erwee got a big lead on Pat Cummins’ delivery.
“They are in dire straits in South Africa,” Adam Gilchrist said in commentary for Fox Sports.
South Africa are now 3/5 and it looks like this match could be over very soon.
1.15pm: Starc gets the 300th with an absolute ripper
Mitchell Starc took his 300th Test wicket with one of the best deliveries you will ever see.
The fierce left-hander tore through the stumps of Rassie van der Dussen with a cutter that was absolutely impossible to defend.
The South African batsman could only shake his head in disbelief as the ball smashed through his defenses and cleared his stumps.
“What a peach to get it, the swing, the full delivery, the stumps everywhere, take a bow, man,” Kerry O’Keefe said in commentary for Fox Cricket.
“What a milestone to get with your signature ball, the cutter that leans in to open the door for a right-hander.
“How delighted he is to have made it with that stone. Well played champion.”
Minutes earlier, South Africa lost their first wicket of the second innings after Pat Cummins caught captain Dean Elgar LBW.
12.40pm: Australian tail cleared
South Africa demolished Australia’s lower order with the Aussies losing 3/1 to end the innings.
Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon looked helpless against the short ball and both were dismissed for a duck.
The wickets of Mitchell Starc, Cummins and Lyon fell within a span of three overs off threatening short balls from Rabada and Lungi Ngidi.
Cummins looked desperately out of touch as he faced a short delivery from Rabada and fell for a three-delivery duck.
He tried to hook a short ball but could only send a top edge down Anrich Nortje’s throat.
He was almost out of his first ball when another bouncer hit him with a wrist guard.
Minutes earlier, Ngidi showed incredible athleticism to get down and hook Mitch Starc caught and tossed.
Starc again bowled the ball through cover and Ngidi reached down to spin the ball with both hands before as he fell forward on his elbows and knees.
12:00h: ‘This is strange’: The head drops to ninety
Travis Head was caught behind after getting a bit of a glove on a dangerous short ball from South African quick Anrich Nortje.
The bowler took two wickets in his first four deliveries of the series after getting Cameron Green to remove a ball that was pitched.
Green fell for 18 off 19 balls as his cover drive ended up flying to third slip. However, the catch flew when the fielder failed to control it, ending up in the hands of first slip Sarel Erwee, who had run over to help.
There was even more drama just a minute later when Head was dismissed on 92, having been dismissed for 99 against the West Indies in Adelaide.
Head tried to swing the ball towards fine leg but the delivery came up aggressively and caught part of his glove as it sailed under his lower hand.
Head referred the decision to DRS after he appeared to lose his glove and hit his torso.
The closest replays showed there was contact and it was confirmed by the Snicko tech. However, the subsequent decision was further confused when the hot spot technology failed to detect any contact between the glove and the ball.
Ian Smith said in a commentary for Fox Cricket: “It looked for a second as if (it had tipped over). It’s quite a strange scenario.”
11am: Warner’s Baggy Green reveal is simply ‘ugly’
After Steve Smith caused such a stir when he showed what his iconic Baggy Green cap looks like after playing 89 Tests, David Warner has revealed that his cap is just as shabby.
The state of Smith’s wide green sparked debate on social media over whether his well-worn cap was a sign of “disrespect for a national icon”.
Australian cricketers used to get a new cap for each tour and there is no rule for players not to get a replacement from Cricket Australia. But the players see that the more deteriorated the cap, the greater the player.
Warner showed off his seniority on Sunday, revealing his used cap in a segment with Ricky Ponting.
“We’ve only got one cap. Back in the day, they used to get one every series. For us, you’ve only got one cap, we wear it with pride,” he told Channel 7.
“It’s a wear and tear. It looks a little ugly but it’ll be fixed. I’ll do the front, not sure about the top.”
Ponting told fans to back off from criticizing Smith and Warner.
“Everyone has their own opinion so the players can have their own opinion,” said the Channel 7 commentator.
“If they’re happy to wear the old cap, put it on. It’s no different than a pair of dirty shoes or a bat for a season and a half and the face is all dirty. It’s a piece of your equipment that you feel more comfortable with than playing the same green and changing it.
“Smithy is playing this game in a brand new cap, he was stretching it all day and making it feel good. To each their own.”
10:00: ‘Nasty’ sign Warner is cooked”
Australia’s top order collapsed after David Warner was dismissed for a golden duck on the first ball of the innings on Saturday.
The opening attack’s miserable start to the summer leaves his Test career on the brink, having failed to register a century since January 2020.
It was ugly for Warner on Day 1 when he avoided a short delivery at short leg where he was caught by Khaya Zondo.
“David Warner just took his eye off the ball and he paid the price,” former Australian batsman Mark Waugh told Fox Cricket.
“Nothing has gone David Warner’s way: he continues to make mistakes and continues to pay a high price.
“It was nasty … once you take his eye out, anything can happen.”
Waugh said on Day 2 that the dismissal was particularly worrying from a technical point of view as Warner appeared to take his eye off the ball.
10:00: Heartbreak for Steve Smith in a late spin
Australia were in real trouble at 3/27 before Steve Smith and Travis Head came to the crease.
The pair steadied the ship with a 117-run partnership to tilt the game in Australia’s favour.
Head was particularly impressive, hitting a counter half-century to be 78 not out at stumps.
The Aussies looked to be cruising before Smith was clean out for 36 by an absolute peach from Anrich Nortje and nightwatchman Scott Boland was caught behind.
Nortje sent Smith’s bails flying to the boundary rope with possibly the ball of the day.
At stumps, Australia were 5/145, trailing South Africa by just seven runs.
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