'It was an excellent batting performance': Graeme Smith Lauds SA fighters after their performance in the WTC final | Mint

New -delhi [India]June 14 (Ani): While South Africa was closer to the removal of the World Test Championship (WTC) title on Friday, former captain Graeme Smith had his team’s batting performance against Australia at Lord’s. After two days of bowlers from both sides trading, taking 28 wickets, it was the graft of the bowling group to finish the turn of Australia in the best period to bat in the ultimate test, before the Proteas fighters moved the side in the rise, and at the distance of the end of their 27-year-old ICC trophy drought. The Proteas only need another 69 runs to win, and will continue on day 4 by Aiden Markram (102 not out) and Temba Bavuma (65 not out), after scoring 143 runs in their third-pole partnership. Smith paid tribute to the work of the Proteas on ICC’s digital daily with Crystal Arnold at the end of the day, led by his modern contemporary contemporary in Bavuma. “We saw such up and downs, EBBS and flow in this test match. The game that goes back and forth, and South Africa that fights in the first innings of 75, went well and returned to the game. It was an excellent batting performance. I think your instinct always tends to play the field,” ICC. “Today, the pitch just looked like it lost his life. And South Africa had to work hard to get the two wickets. But in the end, which turns a turn from Aiden Markram, and a partnership as well (with Temba Bavuma). Bavuma, the captain, came in, and you just kept expanding” Immediately in the Cauldron of a World Test Championship Final at Lord’s, with Markram’s century stealing day 3 headlines. will be tapping the scoreboard all the time.