SA vs AUS

1:52 PM local time (5:22 PM IST): Josh Hazlewood registers his best figures in a Test innings. Temba Bavuma loses his first Test match as South African captain, after 12 games. South Africa lose their fourth straight Test against Australia at Kingsmead. Most importantly, Australia begin yet another series with a win! That means, the Proteas have to come back stronger in the 2nd Test at St. George's Park and square the series, with some crucial World Test Championship percentage points up for grabs. The action starts at 10:00 AM local time (1:30 PM IST) on Sunday, 18 October. Do join us for it, first thing! This is Sourabh and Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda! 

Pat Cummins (Australia captain): "Extremely happy with how we've gone! It started with Matt Renshaw, excellent innings from him and then, to back it up with another solid knock is special! Our bowling has always delivered, so it's a pleasure having the bowlers around to get the job done. I'm happy with the workload so far, both for the others and myself. Felt good playing out there. It's always good to get the first win in the first match, two matches to go of course, so, anything can happen, but it's good to get this win. (On Josh Hazlewood's bowling in the 2nd innings) We talk a lot about his consistency, but he can bowl at any stage of a match and turn things our way. He does it time and time again!" 

Temba Bavuma (South Africa captain): "It's not the way you want to start. Credit to the Australians, they dominated the majority of the game. After being in a tricky position, they managed to turn it around and gave us a lesson with their experience and performances. We need guys to get in and go big, like Matt Renshaw did. We got starts, but didn't carry on. On the bowling front, we weren't relentless enough. So we'll discuss things for sure. It's hard to say why we don't have a good record here in Durban, we obviously don't play a lot here, but, it's hard to pinpoint something." 

Matt Renshaw (Player of the Match for his 272 runs and 2 wickets in the match): Pretty tired to be honest. Been a long 5 days, been a long time since playing a Test match. Very happy to contribute. (Plans in the first innings with the bat) Just be out there and for as long as possible and build partnership with the lower order, got some really good allies. It was just the conditions and the field, it was pretty hard to take the twos so I had to take the risks for boundaries. (his batting in the second innings) Probably got a bit lucky in the second innings, a couple of bottom edges and top edges but tried to push the envelope to get a lead for the team. (batting at number 5) Pretty good, different from opening the batting but happy to do what the team needs from me. (picking up his maiden Test wicket) Wasn't expecting it after bowling five full tosses in an over, Patty took me off pretty quickly. (special time for family?) Think so. Haven't had the time to talk of them, difficult time zone but there will be a few phone calls over the next couple of days

1:39 PM local time (5:09 PM IST): Matt Renshaw is of course going to be the Player of the Match in the post-match presentations. Let's hear from him and the two skippers

1:23 PM local time (4:53 PM IST): Australia win by 214 runs to take a 1-0 lead with 2 matches to play! 

Matt Renshaw - 190 (397) and 82 (99) || Pat Cummins - 3/54 (15) and Josh Hazlewood - 6/49 (16.5)
David Bedingham - 49 (73) and Aiden Markram - 75 (237) || Wiaan Mulder - 4/68 (27) and Anrich Nortje - 2/56 (12)

All the talk about whether Australia can bat well in overseas conditions just got smashed! They didn't only bat well, they found a new hero! Matt Renshaw's total of 272 runs in both innings of this match, sealed the deal for the visitors, as their overwhelmingly high-quality bowling did not let them down! 

South Africa were on top in the 1st innings with the ball, reducing the Australians to 124/6, but since then, everything has gone the Aussies' way! 

Renshaw brought up a superb century, and didn't stop there. He scored 90 more runs, and helped his team post 390. South Africa got lots of starts in their 1st innings, but no one went on to get a bit score, resulting in them conceding a lead in excess of 100 runs. 

The visiting team didn't stop there, as they flicked the switch at an appropriate time, again courtesy Renshaw, with a cameo from skipper Pat Cummins, and gave the Proteas a target of 421. 

On a pitch deteriorating by the hour, that was always going to be tough. On Day 4, we managed to get three full hours of play in the 3rd session, which was a rarity, and that meant, Australia were able to pick up 4 wickets for just a bit more than 100 runs! 

So today, South Africa had to come out with a purpose of holding fort. They did that with distinction, till the last 25 minutes of the 1st session! 

Wiaan Mulder and Markram stitched together a 69-run 5th wicket partnership, playing 204 deliveries. But it was Josh Hazlewood who strangled Mulder down leg, and broke the rigid stand. 

Renshaw, who took a wicket last evening, got into the act again, picking up wicketkeeper-batter Kyle Verreynne. 

Post Lunch, the South Africans thought it was better to keep defending and take the innings deep. Marco Jansen was there with Markram, also looking to defend and leave. But his natural game is to play shots. 

He played a few and got runs from them. But the lack of surety stayed with him. Against the second new ball, to a nip-backer from Hazlewood, he chose to press forward and defend, and that brought about his undoing! The ball went through bat and pad and castled him. 

After that, it was just a formality for the visitors to wrap the hosts up, with Hazlewood picking up yet another fifer and Mitchell Starc ending the long vigil of Markram, by getting him caught behind. 

Hazlewood's short ball to Anrich Nortje finished things off for the match, with Australia requiring only an hour in the 2nd session on Day 5 to seal victory! 

86.5 Josh Hazlewood to Anrich Nortje, IN THE AIR AND TAKEN! Australia win by a massive 214 runs on the fifth afternoon and take a much deserving 1-0 lead in this 3-match series. It has finished in a bit of a hurry, hasn't it? Hazlewood ends with a 6-fer as he takes the final one too with a typical Hazlewoos hard length delivery which rushed Nortje on the backfoot and the number 11 could only splice it up to Lyon at mid-wicket. Hazlewood finishes with a career best of 6/49 in Tests and this also marks the first loss for Temba Bavuma as a Test captain.

86.4 Josh Hazlewood to Anrich Nortje, SLASHED THROUGH THE SLIPS! It is a packed cordon but the ball finds its way in between somewhere there. Width on offer from Hazlewood, on a length, Nortje throws his hands at it and the thick outside edge flies through the slips

86.3 Josh Hazlewood to Anrich Nortje, angled into the stumps, 134.5 ks, good length, Nortje was rushed a touch but he managed to tuck it to short leg

86.2 Josh Hazlewood to Keshav Maharaj, squares him up around the off stump, takes a thick outside edge as the 137.5 ks ball bounces extra off a length and falls short of gully. Hits his hands and deflects for a single

South Africa are set to lose back to back Test matches against Australia at Kingsmead. In fact, their record in whites at this venue keeps getting worse! 

86.1 Josh Hazlewood to Keshav Maharaj, stabby push off the backfoot into the cover region, 135.7 ks, Maharaj takes a couple of steps down looking for a non-existent single and is rightly sent back in time by his partner

Aiden Markram definitely played well, but, he got too much into a shell. A bit more urgency was required from him to keep the scoreboard moving. Anyway, the result is very much a moment's wait now. 

85.6 Mitchell Starc to Anrich Nortje, good length outside off, shapes back in slightly but not enough to hit the off pole which was left exposed by Nortje who shouldered arms