Australia's South African-born star outshone a magnificent innings by Temba Bavuma as the visitors claimed a bizarre three-wicket victory over the Proteas in the first ODI in Bloemfontein.
The verdict is in: As opposition, you don't want Marnus Labuschagne coming in to bat as a concussion substitute.
In fact, had it not been for an unfamiliarly slow Mangaung Oval wicket, the result might not have been as deceptively close. For the purists, it would've been enthralling; the T20 generation with its short attention span, not so much. Aiden Markram - in a continuation of a longstanding problem in his ODI career - looked a cut above in cracking three boundaries in a 14-ball 19 before he skied a pull off Cameron Green and Heinrich Klaasen, so dazzling in recent times in various T20 leagues, was a victim of a delivery that kept low.
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