{"id":9008,"date":"2025-08-10T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=626824"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:23:21","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-1st-t20i-tim-davids-29-ball-fifty-powers-fightback-in-darwin-aus-122-6-13-overs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-vs-south-africa-1st-t20i-tim-davids-29-ball-fifty-powers-fightback-in-darwin-aus-122-6-13-overs\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I: Tim David\u2019s 29-ball fifty powers fightback in Darwin, AUS 122\/6 (13 overs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"403\">Tim David produced a counterattacking half-century off just 29 balls to revive Australia\u2019s innings in the <strong data-start=\"296\" data-end=\"345\">Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I at Darwin<\/strong> after the hosts had slipped to 75\/6 inside eight overs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"703\">After <strong data-start=\"411\" data-end=\"428\">Aiden Markram<\/strong> won the toss and opted to field, South Africa struck early through <strong data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"513\">Kagiso Rabada<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"531\">George Linde<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"554\">Kwena Maphaka<\/strong>, removing Travis Head (2), Josh Inglis (0), Mitchell Marsh (13), Cameron Green (35), Mitchell Owen (2), and Glenn Maxwell (1) in quick succession.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"1122\">Walking in during a collapse, <strong data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"748\">Tim David<\/strong> counterpunched in style, striking boundaries freely and clearing the ropes with ease. He brought up his half-century from 29 deliveries with a four to deep extra cover off <strong data-start=\"921\" data-end=\"937\">Corbin Bosch<\/strong> in the 13th over. His knock included five sixes and three fours, lifting Australia to 122\/6 after 13 overs in partnership with <strong data-start=\"1065\" data-end=\"1082\">Ben Dwarshuis<\/strong>, who was unbeaten on 10 off 12 balls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1270\">David\u2019s aggressive approach has kept Australia in the hunt for a competitive total despite the early damage inflicted by South Africa\u2019s bowlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim David produced a counterattacking half-century off just 29 balls to revive Australia\u2019s innings in the Australia vs South Africa,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":31783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","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=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}