Temba Bavuma

A convincing start after all the build-up, all the speculation about who's playing, who should be playing, who shouldn't be here, who should have been here, who should go back home, and, well, whether they were good enough to go up against the World Test Champions and beat them, uh, in, uh, in their own den.

And also brings an end to the streak of Temba Bavuma.

No longer can he say, "I am unbeaten as Test captain." Unfortunately, he has gone down.

This is more the Goldberg streak than The Undertaker streak.

The longest streak in test history is added to with another test match, and presumably it'll be the same [laughs] next week in four days when we go to PE for the second match.

Uh, quick note about South Africa, then we'll come to some of the more enjoyable parts of the day that we can describe in greater detail.

Um, we walked past Temba Bavuma when we were doing our end-of-play interview for radio with Josh Hazlewood, and he looked a, a forlorn man.

I mean, he said in the presser when you asked him about it, well, you can go to this, what he said when you asked him, uh, how he felt in the immediate aftermath of his first test loss and how they go about rebounding from here, because they can point at moments in this game when they were very much in it, and they ceded the advantage virtually every time.

You know, one of the great things about a test match is that it, it's, because of how slow-moving it is, like, it- it's like a, you know, it's a butterfly flapping its wings, right? Something happens on day one or day two, and it can have this cascading effect throughout the whole game.

And there was just one instance where Renshaw against, uh, the s- spinners or, or, or the medium pace of Mulder was just able to tick over the strike and it cut to Temba Bavuma.

And I, I'm not putting this entirely on the, on the South African captain because his batters haven't produced, his, his bowlers haven't produced.

But the, the camera cut to, to Bavuma, and he sort of had this little shrug on his shoulders.

It's been a, a tough time zone, but I think over the next couple of days sort of, uh, have a few phone calls.

Happy about Renshaw moving a little bit lower down the order and making it count.

Temba Bavuma though, a tough test match for him in the field.

Also short of runs as well.

We're just on standby for the presentation here.

Matt Renshaw has marched out as the player of the match, Pat Cummins, and we await Temba Bavuma.

Australia victorious at Durban by two hundred and fourteen runs, and we're seeing the updated World Test Championship table, and this tips South Africa into third position.

New Zealand split Australia and South Africa now.

That's your player of the match, Matt Renshaw.

[audience cheering] What a game he had.

And now we'll take an opportunity to speak to the South African captain, Temba Bavuma.

Temba, obviously not the result you would have wanted at the start of a test series.

But, uh, yeah, convincing from, uh, Australia, and, uh, a bit of homework to do on behalf of the side of South Africa.

So Temba Bavuma's first loss as test captain.

Is-- what sort of soul-searching do you reckon there will be?

Yeah, there's always, uh, someone to spoil your party.

Australian captain departs.

The chase is on for Temba Bavuma, but no chance.

[clapping] What a moment.

What a fabulous hundred.

Uh, Marco Jansen looked cooked in the second innings with the ball, so I don't know how much juice he's got left for the rest of this series.

And I don't think Bavuma captained the size- side very well.

Especially was when Renshaw was going in the first innings.

He just allowed far too many easy runs.

So let's just go through a, a few of the details for day five.

South Africa started the day four for 102.

Renshaw opened the bowling, and, uh, g- they threw him the ball after his performance last night to get Bavuma, and, uh, they opened at the other end with Mitchell Starc.

And early on in the day, the ball was dying pretty early.

South Africa looking for 319 more runs tomorrow.

Matt Renshaw, not only did he make 82 in the second innings, following up on his brilliant 100 in the first, but he also took the valuable wicket of Temba Bavuma, who failed in both innings.

Rickleton failed in both innings.

Stubbs failed in both innings.

[laughs]

He got Bavuma, the captain, as well.

Like, he's their best player.

What, what a day.

Yeah.

grabbing the reverse sweeps from Bavuma, played an awful one, and Varian, the keeper, also that was the great catch from Smith.

He just predicted that.

Yeah, so there was all of that, and it was a reminder this is a very, very good side, and this bowling quartet, you know, belong in the annals of cricket history as all-time greats.