It was a frustrating opening day for players and fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday, with Australia once more firmly in control against SA in the third Test, thanks to half-centuries for Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja.
Australia finished on 147/2 and it wasn’t only the weather that proved irritating with bad light, rain and then more bad light forcing the players off the field halfway through the day.
Kettleborough took a number of looks at replays and from the side-on camera angle and judged the ball hit the ground before Harmer caught it.Cue hands on hips, pursed lips and shakes of the heads as the South Africans displayed their understandable disappointment with the television official’s judgment.
Australia also made changes. Matt Renshaw, who has Covid-19 and was kept separate from the rest of the players, was called in for Cameron Green, Ashton Agar replaced Scott Boland while Josh Hazlewood filled in for the injured Mitchell Starc. Then came a two-and-half-hour delay that started with bad light which turned into rain, and was then lengthened by more bad light.
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