{"id":48410,"date":"2026-10-19T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48410"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:13:05","slug":"rain-delays-start-of-second-days-play-between-sa-australia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rain-delays-start-of-second-days-play-between-sa-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain delays start of second day\u2019s play between SA, Australia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Rain delayed the start of play on the \u200bsecond day of the second test \u200cbetween South Africa (SA) and Australia in Gqeberha on Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">SA were on \u200b20 runs for two wickets \u200bafter only 60 minutes of play \u2060was possible at St George\u2019s Park \u200bon the opening day on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>Debutant \u200bMarques Ackerman (5) and home skipper Temba Bavuma (4) were due to resume, but no start time \u200bwas scheduled. An umpires&#8217; inspection was \u200bset for 11:15 am (Central African Time).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The weather is set \u200cto \u2060clear later on Monday, and no more rain is forecast for the rest of the test.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Scott Boland took \u200btwo wickets \u200bin \u2060two balls on Sunday to give Australia a strong start \u200bafter they had won the \u200btoss \u2060and put the home side into bat.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Australia lead the three-match series after \u2060a \u200b214-run victory in the \u200bfirst test at Kingsmead in Durban last week.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15986,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-48410","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Australia lead the three-match series after \u2060a \u200b214-run victory in the \u200bfirst test at Kingsmead in Durban last week.","published_date":"","news_description":"Australia lead the three-match series after \u2060a \u200b214-run victory in the \u200bfirst test at Kingsmead in Durban last week.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48412,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48410\/revisions\/48412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}