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Updates as the Proteas host Australia at St George’s Park
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Play start time in Gqeberha is 9.45am local/6.45pm AEDT/8.45am BST
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Another point of interest is how Josh Hazlewood pulls up today, after being off the field crook yesterday. He and umpire Chris Gaffaney. Did they have a quiet dinner at an unvetted seafood joint?
You heard right. Cricket, like love, never runs on time. Or at least if often runs late. But today, it least, it’s running early. We’ll get that early start (by 15 minutes? What’s that going to get us, two overs?) and if the skies stay clear we can play late like we did yesterday. It won’t necessarily make up overs, in terms of the 450 scheduled for the match, given how slowly modern teams bowl their overs, but it will make up a few of the overs lost to rain the last two days. And every over we get back gets us closer to a result.