South Africa v Australia: second men’s one-day cricket international – live

38th over: South Africa 250-4 (Miller 92, Stubbs 1) The over started with Miller moving into the 90s with a pull for four through midwicket. It ended with Stubbs nudging a single down the ground after Bavuma’s hack into the covers was well held by the running Bartlett to hand Edwards his second wicket of the day. That wicket, which brought an end to a 156-run partnership, won’t slow South Africa down. Temba tries to up the ante and falls in the deep! He wanted to take the attack to the returning Edwards but lost his shape as he came out his crease and went over cover. In the end it was a pretty ugly hack that spliced off the bat and arced towards Bartlett who did well to make the ground, running in off the rope. The catch was made and Bavuma walked off to a standing ovation. 37th over: South Africa 244-3 (Bavuma 103, Miller 87) Connolly replaces Zampa. Marsh needs a big show from his part-timers now. A couple of singles start the set before a drag down is deposited into the stands by Miller who pulls it off the back foot well in front of square. More good running, and placement of the ball, allows the batters to keep the score ticking in an over worth 11 to the tally. 36th over: South Africa 233-3 (Bavuma 101, Miller 78) Six singles off that over, including the dribbled one down to fine leg that took Bavuma to his century. This 140-run partnership off just 123 balls has set South Africa up beautifully. They’ll be targeting a score north of 350 from here I reckon. If Miller stays the course they could be grasping 400. What a knock by the South African captain! He was in second ball of the innings and has looked submlime throughout. He was put down in the deep en route, but some brilliant batting around the ground, for 10 fours and two sixes, sees him raise his bat after gathering a single to fine leg off Edwards. That’s his sixth in the format and his second against Australia. 35th over: South Africa 227-3 (Bavuma 98, Miller 75) There’s a nervous tension around the ground as Bavuma eyes up his hundred. He had a chance to get there from a Zampa drag down, but the firm pull was hit straight to Marsh at midwicket. For half a second I thought he picked him out. Two singles for Bavuma takes him closer to the milestone, while Miller must also be considering three figures as he takes two singles himself. 34th over: South Africa 223-3 (Bavuma 96, Miller 73) Miller takes on Renshaw, swatting him over the cover ring for a four. He goes again the next ball, but it’s straighter and hit with more of a checked-drive. He hits it so well that the fielder at a wide long-off is in business for a moment, but it clears the outstretched hand and hits the boundary on the full for a six. Bavuma then gets on strike and takes a nervous prod away from his body. Luckily for him, it misses his outside edge. 33rd over: South Africa 210-3 (Bavuma 95, Miller 61) Miller gives himself room, creating the width he needs as he climbs into Connolly off the back foot, creaming him for four through cover and point. There’s a sketchy run taken as Bavuma tips and runs, forcing Miller to dive in at the keeper’s end. A direct hit from point would have been out. This is now a record fourth-wicket stand, worth 116, for South Africa at this ground. Ellis has a side-strain and will not bowl again today. That’s a blow to the Aussies who would have been banking on six more overs from their death-overs specialist. Means Marsh has to eke out a 36 balls from Connolly and Renshaw. Perhaps more given the tap that Zampa has recieved. 32nd over: South Africa 202-3 (Bavuma 93, Miller 55) Miller adds four more to the score by pulling a lifter from Hazlewood hard into the ground. It bounced so much that it cleared the leaping fielder at a catching midwicket. Seven off the over that included an attempted yorker. First time they’ve gone that full. 31st over: South Africa 195-3 (Bavuma 91, Miller 50) Zampa, who went at over nine an over in his first spell, is back. Miller greets him with a clip onto the on side to bring up his fifty. Then Bavuma rocks back and dispatches a bit of dross from Zampa for four through cover. It’s a carbon copy the next ball; short and wide and cut away for four more. Zampa over-corrects and serves up a full-toss that Bavuma clobbers for four over the ring down to wide long-on. That brings up the hundred partnership and takes Bavuma into the 90s. Bavuma keeps the strike with a single down the ground, taking the over’s tally to 14. 30th over: South Africa 181-3 (Bavuma 78, Miller 49) Sensing he needs a wicket, Marsh chucks the ball to Hazlewood for a return spell, possibly earlier than he would have liked. The Saffas will know that they don’t need to take too many risks against him now and just rotate the strike. Some good running off a Bavuma punch into the off-side turns an easy one into a well-taken two. Five off that over, all run. 29th over: South Africa 176-3 (Bavuma 75, Miller 47) Connolly returns with his part-timers. It’s a good over, just four singles. The partnership is up to 83 from 80 balls. 28th over: South Africa 172-3 (Bavuma 73, Miller 45) Renshaw’s over was looking good until the last ball when Miller wafted his hands, almost nonchalantly, and lifted a six over wide long-on. He barely seemed to hit and yet it sailed over the rope. A comibation of the Highveld altitude and his unreal timing of a cricket ball. Three singles elsewhere. 27th over: South Africa 163-3 (Bavuma 71, Miller 38) Bavuma gets in on the act, smashing a six, baseball style, over midwicket. Nothing sublte about that off Bartlett’s back of a length ball. A wide down the leg side from a slower-ball that went awry, and two singles, means it’s a decent return for the Saffas who continue to build. 26th over: South Africa 154-3 (Bavuma 64, Miller 37) After a little lull, Miller explodes into action. With mid-off up, he lifts Edwards up and over for a one-bounce four. Then with a little extra width, he leans into a lofted drive that is little more than a punch off the front foot, but the timing is so good that it arcs over extra cover for six. What a shot! A leg-bye brings Bavuma on strike who gets away with an inside edge that almost goes back onto his sticks. 25th over: South Africa 141-3 (Bavuma 63, Miller 26) Bartlett returns. We’re very much in the ‘middle’ overs of this ODI innings. Just a case of the batters keeping the strike rotating as they wait for the moment to shift gears. Australia are bowling well, not allowing any four balls as it’s wicket-to-wicket stuff. Tidy. Just two off that over. 24th over: South Africa 139-3 (Bavuma 62, Miller 25) Edwards is back, hammering a length from his extra height. Bavuma punches a single to bring Miller on strike. Edwards goes round the wicket to him as he stands outside his leg stump. He wants room to throw his hands at any width but there’s none on offer. Edwards then switches back to over the wicket – which is a mistake in my opinion – and Miller flicks a single down to fine leg. Another single from Bavuma down the ground to close out the set. 23rd over: South Africa 136-3 (Bavuma 60, Miller 24) Ellis continues. He’s bowled well, hitting a good length. Of all the seamers he’s been the most consistent on that front. Four runs off the over, two of them a result of quick running as Bavuma tucked a couple off a slowerr ball off his pads. 22nd over: South Africa 132-3 (Bavuma 57, Miller 23) More spin as Renshaw comes into the attack. Seven runs off that over, including a delicious lofted cover drive from Miller that is picked up with the spin and hammers the advertising boards. Australia are struggling to stem the flow of runs but know that a couple of quick wickets could turn momentum. Plenty of time left in this innings. 21st over: South Africa 135-3 (Bavuma 56, Miller 17) Bavuma swats Ellis for four, up and over midwicket. The next ball is also hammered but this time it’s straight to the sub fielder, Davies, at midwicket. He stoops low and does well to hold onto the catch, but reviews show that it bounced just a centimetre before he got his hands around it. Another (correct) decision goes South Africa’s way. There’s a wide down the leg side to Miller and a couple if singles elsewhere. A bit all over the place from Ellis on that one. 20th over: South Africa 118-3 (Bavuma 51, Miller 16) Bavuma brings up his 50 with a cut shot worth two. Then he’s whacked on his forearm as the extra bounce from Edwards off a good length causes him a bit of bother. One wide and a single means it’s a pretty tidy set, worth just four. Bavuma brings up his 50 with a cut behind point, but the good times are cut short as he cops a blow on his forearm from a spitting ball off Edwards. So there’s a lengthy delay. 19th over: South Africa 114-3 (Bavuma 48, Miller 16) It’s Miller time! The aggressive lefty thwacks Zampa for six in front of square on the leg side. Then he leans back and punches a four through cover with lovely timing. Singles elsewhere add up to 13 off that set. 18th over: South Africa 101-3 (Bavuma 46, Miller 5) Hundred up for the Proteas as Edwards strays onto Miller’s pads and is tucked fine for four. Bavuma picked up a single just before to tip-toe his way to a half century. 17th over: South Africa 96-3 (Bavuma 45, Miller 1) Three singles off that Zampa over as the South Africans take a breath after the loss of Breetzke. 16th over: South Africa 93-3 (Bavuma 43, Miller 0) A first ODI wicket for Jack Edwards in his second game has opened things up for Australia. He’s not quick, but he is tall and that length he found to extract the edge from Breetzke outside the off stump is a blueprint for how to bowl on this bouncy surface. The drinks break and bowling change does it! South Africa were motoring along, but, as it so often happens, the break in play brings a wicket. Edwards, into the attack, hits a hard length that invites the back-foot punch from Breetzke. Perhaps it lifted off the surface. Either way, by the time it got to him he was in no position to control it and got a thickish edge that Carey snaffled behind the stumps. Breetzke was looking good but will have to go. 15th over: South Africa 92-2 (Bavuma 42, Breetzke, 34) Just class from Breetzke. Full of confidence after the ton in Durban, he’s continuing his good form. First he whacks a drag down from Zampa for four behind square on the leg side, then he’s dabbing him down to deep third. After rotating the strike, Bavuma shows some class of his own, steering another boundary down to deep third to bring up the 50-run stand between these two. 15 off that over before a drinks break. 14th over: South Africa 67-2 (Bavuma 36, Breetzke 25) Spin at both endds as Connolly joins the party with his slow left arm. Just the four singles off that opening set. 13th over: South Africa 73-2 (Bavuma 34, Breetzke 23) Two chances go against Australia. After Breetzke surived a lbw review – beaten in the flight by Zampa’s quicker, flatter ball a long way out of his crease – Bavuma is put down by a diving Edwards at deep square leg. The ball was dragged down and Bavuma was there to be hit, but the SA skipper didn’t catch all of it. Should have been taken. Zampa’s mood would have worsened then when Breetzke dabbed him for four with a deft touch down to deep third. 12th over: South Africa 66-2 (Bavuma 33, Breetzke 17) The Saffas have found an extra gear and are picking up boundaries at will. Ellis drags it down and Breetzke rolls his wrists, picking the big gap between fine leg and deep square. There’s a chance of a run-out as Bavuma takes on the fielder at mid-off, but the throw misses the stumps. A direct hit at the non-strikers end might have been interesting. Seven off the over. 11th over: South Africa 59-2 (Bavuma 32, Breetzke 11) Zampa into the attack. South Africa will consider that a win that spin is introduced so early. A couple of singles before Breetzke smokes a cover drive for four with a flourish of his bat. He’ll keep the strike with a single to the sweeper on the off-side. He looks good. I don’t want to put the mockers on him, but he really looks a quality player. 10th over: South Africa 51-2 (Bavuma 30, Breetzke 5) Ellis into the attack. He starts off well, sticthign together four dots to Breetzke, but then he drops it short and too straight and the man in form swivels as he heaves it away for four on the leg side. 9th over: South Africa 47-2 (Bavuma 30, Breetzke 1) Proper class from Bavuma who looks in great touch. He finds the rope down the ground with a neat on-drive to Hazlewood. Then, two balls later, he leans back as he throws his hands at a lofted cover drive, up and over the infield for another four. Australia have bagged two early wickets but I don’t think they’ve found the right lengths on this deck. 8th over: South Africa 39-2 (Bavuma 22, Breetzke 1) Breetzke, the centurion from the last game, is off the mark with a quickly scampered single to the man at mid-off. Bartlett is on the money – I don’t think he’s been hit for a boundary yet – as he concedes just three singles across the set. Hazlewood has his man! After getting crunched for two sixes in the over, both on the leg side, Hazlewood finds his line, pushing it across the left-handed de Kock. The batter chases the final ball that was much wider than the previous one and can only feather a catch behind for Carey. Pretty poor from the South African who unfurled two trademark sixes with pick-ups behind square on the leg side. But he’s in the shed after getting greedy, chasing the tempter away from his body. 7th over: South Africa 36-2 (Bavuma 20, Breetzke 0) 6th over: South Africa 24-1 (de Kock 3, Bavuma 20) If there was a second slip Bavuma would be a goner. Back of a length from Bartlett and Bavuma goes hard at it off the back foot, but he can only meet it with a thick outside edge. The lone slip dives across, but he can’t reach it as it races away for four. Bartlett then bowls a jaffa that beats Bavuma on the outside edge. Marsh uses every available second before making a call to send it upstairs. It was a beauty, starting on leg stump off a good length before shaping away. But there was no edge. 5th over: South Africa 19-1 (de Kock 3, Bavuma 16) Just a couple of singles from that tidy Hazlewood over. He moved a slip out which is both a win for South Africa and a signt that he’s targeting the stumps, rather than the channel. 4th over: South Africa 17-1 (de Kock 2, Bavuma 15) De Kock keeps it ticking with a single off the first ball of this Bartlett over. Bavuma throws his hands at a wide one but doesn’t catch it. Bartlett is holding a good length so the South African captain skips down the track to turn a length ball into something close to a half volley, whipping through midwicket for four. Top shot. 3rd over: South Africa 12-1 (de Kock 1, Bavuma 11) Hazlewood is finding some lovely shape through the air. One starts on a leg stump line and arcs towards Bavuma’s off stump, catching the leading edge of a straight drive. But Bavuma finds his groove, leaning into a cover drive for four before dispatching Hazlewood’s over correction, climbing into a mighty pull that clears the ropes at backward square leg. At the top of the over, de Kock got off the mark with a tip and run. 2nd over: South Africa 1-1 (de Kock 0, Bavuma 1) That’s an excellent opening set from Xavier Bartlett. He’s found a great length with a bit of nip both in and away to Bavuma. There’s a shout for lbw but that was lifting off the bouncy deck. He strays on the pads once but Bavuma can’t take advantage so it ends with a maiden. 1st over: South Africa 1-1 (de Kock 0, Bavuma 1). What a start for the visitors and Hazlewood who bagged the big wicket of Markram with the first ball – a short and wide one that was clattered but brilliantly held by Connolly at cover-point. Bavuma, in at first drop, picked up the first run with a nudge off his hips. The commentators are wondering if Markram could have let that ball go as it was his first. I’m not sure I agree. I know it’s a 50-over game, but that ball was there to be hit. And he hit it well. Sometimes cricket is like that, though. That really was a stunning catch from CC. Markram couldn’t have hit that better. WICKET FIRST BALL! It’s short and wide and Markram hammers it off the back foot, but it’s within reach of Connolly at cover-point who leaps to grab it with one hand above his head. What a start for the Aussies! Josh Hazlewood, who was excellent in the opener, will take the first over. Reminder that Micthell Starc, who usually opens, is not playing. Vernon Philander on comms says, “the first ten overs will be crucial.” Aren’t they always? Is there any 10-over cluster that is not crucial? Anthems now. We’ll hear both sets again a little later in Perth as the Springboks and Wallabies play on the rugby field. Today is a warm-up of sorts for fans of both sports ahead of the clashing World Cups next year. In October 2027, South Africa will host the Cricket World Cup which Australia will defend, while Australia will host the Rugby World Cup, which South Africa will defend. What a shame they’re not in different months. Of course, I blame the Indian Premier League. Marco Jansen is doing some pre-match press. He’s not a great talker, but he is a hell of a cricketer. Want to know my hot take? By the end of the South African summer – which includes Tests against Bangladesh and England – everyone around the cricket world will agree that he is the best player in the game. He’s two metres tall. He swings it both ways with his left arm. He can whack sixes and build innings. He catches pigeons across the park. He is a cheat code. “The ball is going to ping through nicely,” says Shaun Pollock at the pitch inspection. He says bowling first was the right call. Will be interesting to see how South Africa’s two spinners go. Both Maharaj and Fortuin are left-arm finger spinners. I remember watching Adam Gilchrist launch Nicky Boje around the Wanderers as he clobbered the fastest ever Test double ton in 2002. Should have noted that Inglis has a finger injury, which is why Carey comes in. Aiden Markram slots in at the top of the order, replacing Ryan Rickelton. There are three other changes from the first game. Lizaad Williams is in for Gerald Coetzee, Duan Jansen (Marco’s twin) replaces Corbin Bosch and Tristan Stubbs nudges out Tony de Zorzi. South Africa: Aiden Markram, Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Matthew Breetzke, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Duan Jansen, Bjorn Fortuin, Keshav Maharaj, Lizaad Williams. No Pat Cummins today. Xavier Bartlett comes in for Mitchell Starc, surely being rested now for the Test series. Alex Carey takes the gloves from Josh Inglis. Australia XI: Mitch Marsh (c), Travis Head, Cooper Connelly, Alex Carey (wk), Matt Renshaw, Cameron Green, Jack Edwards, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood. It’ll be another chase for Australia after the coin flip goes the way of Mitch Marsh. Temba Bavuma suggests that he would have perhaps bowled first as well. News just in… Ryan Rickelton has withdrawn from South Africa’s team due to “personal reasons”. He’ll be back for the third ODI on Wednesday. Hope everything’s OK. South Africa’s Pink ODI tradition began at the Wanderers in 2013, raising breast-cancer awareness and funds. The Pink ODI Fund has supported breast-care services at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. I was there for the most famous edition back in 2015 when South Africa made 439-2 against West Indies, then the country’s ODI record. AB de Villiers was unreal, thwacking 149 from 44 balls, reaching his hundred in 31 balls, then the fastest ODI century. Hashim Amla made an unbeaten 153 and Rilee Rossouw 128 as South Africa won by 148 runs. South Africa remain Australia’s nemesis in this format. After the first ODI in Durban, the teams had played 114 ODIs: South Africa 58 wins, Australia 52, three ties and one no-result. Against every other opponent, the Aussies have a superior record. On the other hand, they also have six World Cup wins while South Africa have yet to get off the mark. Go on then… Take another look at the greatest ever run chase in ODI history. Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the second of three ODIs between Australia and South Africa. We’re in Johannesburg, home of the greatest 50-over game ever played, for a very special day. It’s the annual Pink Day at the Wanderers where the home side will change their green kit pink to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer detection and treatment. They’ll also be switching out their names on the backs of their shirts for the names of survivors. David Miller will have his mom’s name on his back today. On the pitch, this is South Africa’s best venue for high octane cricket. A bouncy pitch sees the ball fly off the surface and onto the batters’ blades while the thin air at altitude compels the ball over the ropes and into the heaving stands. In my opinion, it’s the best venue for cricket anywhere in the world. Australia need a response after their chase of 298 collapse in Durban in a 67-run defeat. Matthew Breetzke’s 112 launched South Africa to a decent score before Micth Marsh and Travis Head got off to a flyer. But regular wickets, including that of Matt Renshaw who was caught spectacularly by Marco Jansen on the boundary, pegged the Aussies back. Can they find an extra gear to level the series? We’ll find out soon enough. Toss and teams to come before play starts at 10am local time/9am BST/6pm AEST.