South Africa v Australia: second men’s cricket Test, day one abandoned – as it happened

Updates as the Proteas host Australia at St George’s Park Play start time in Gqeberha is 10am local/7pm AEDT/9am BST Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email Hello, cricket pals.

Get ready for something spicy.

And wet.

Spicy and wet.

The tom kha soup of cricket.

It’s coming to your table very shortly, direct from Gqeberha, which you may know historically as Port Elizabeth.

Here’s the deal.

Australia in South Africa, tough away trip but they’ve got a record doing it, very competitive and tense history between the teams, not to mention some… uh… stuff that happened last time that was spoken about exhaustively in the first place.

And amid all this context, Australia rolled up and grabbed the first Test in Durban despite a batting collapse on day one.

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