South Africa have won the toss and elected to bowl first in the opening T20 International against Australia at the Marrara Cricket Ground, Darwin.<\/p>\n
Teams<\/strong> South Africa\u2019s playing XI: Aiden Markram (c), Ryan Rickelton (w), Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Dewald Brevis, Tristan Stubbs, George Linde, Senuran Muthusamy, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Kwena Maphaka, Lungi Ngidi.<\/p>\n Mitchell Marsh on the toss<\/strong> Aiden Markram on the decision to bowl<\/strong> South Africa have won the toss and elected to bowl first in the opening T20 International against Australia at the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":31778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Australia\u2019s playing XI: Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (c), Josh Inglis (w), Cameron Green, Tim David, Mitchell Owen, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were going to have a bowl first. Mainly we haven\u2019t played here as a group, but it (the pitch) does look like a belter. No I didn\u2019t (know they were on an 8-game winning streak). Hopefully the winning way continues. We have had a great lead up as a group and hopefully put on a show for the Darwin crowd. This ground is bigger than St. Kitts but we do have a lot of power, some of the young guys are awesome to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to have a bowl. Not too much info on this venue, will have a look at it with the ball and then take the game from there. It has been good. We have been here for a week or so, the boys have been out and about, some nice things to do around and training as well. We are trying to fine tune a lot of things as we build up to that World Cup, starting with testing out some of the young guys like KG and Lungi back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"