Four-star Starc leaves South Africa reeling
Australia’s Mitchell Starc celebrates after dismissing South Africa’s captain Faf du Plessis during a WACA Ground in Perth on Nov 3, 2016.
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PERTH: A unsuccessful examination capped a miserable day for South Africa on a opening day of their initial Test opposite Australia during a WACA Ground on Thursday.
After discerning bowler Mitchell Starc returned in character with 4 wickets to assistance Australia boot South Africa for 242, a visitors were denied a essential wicket of David Warner in weird resources late in a day.
Seamer Vernon Philander believed he had trapped Warner LBW for 17 with a Australian sum on usually 19, though referee Aleem Dar discharged a appeal.
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The South Africans called for a review, usually for replays to uncover it was a front feet no-ball by Philander.
Their disappointment was exacerbated when serve replays suggested it would have been out had Philander not overstepped.
At stumps on a initial day it was moulding as a dear blunder by Philander as a postpone helped a free-hitting Warner get by to a tighten to top a extensive day for a home side.
Australia was in a autocratic position during 105 though loss, with Warner on 73 and Shaun Marsh on 29, a latter carrying battled to tarry an opening storm from paceman Dale Steyn.
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Warner done a many of his good happening with some hastily strokeplay, including a 6 over third male off Steyn where he finished adult on his backside as a round sailed over a fence.
The left-hander reached his half-century in usually 39 balls and now has 744 runs during 106.28 in Tests in Perth.
The opening partnership was also a record for Australia opposite South Africa during a WACA Ground as a home group capitalised on a progressing good work of a gait bowlers.
Returning from a hideous leg damage suffered in training, Starc struck with a fourth round of a compare and bowled with postulated gait as a tourists struggled after winning a toss and electing to bat.
The Australian gait attack, led by Starc (4-71) and Josh Hazlewood (3-70), struck early as a Proteas slumped to 32 for 4.
Middle sequence batsmen Temba Bavuma (51) and Quinton de Kock, who top-scored with an assertive 84, rallied with a 71-run mount for a sixth wicket.
But a visitors again stumbled when Bavuma and Philander (10) fell usually before tea as Australia regained control.
De Kock survived dual preference reviews and should have been run out on 61, usually to be a ninth wicket to tumble when he chased discerning runs with a tail.
Bavuma done a stoical 51 though he fell to a shining locate by Shaun Marsh — whose hermit Mitchell had also taken a screamer to boot opener Stephen Cook (0).
Philander (10) fell to a final round before tea, boring an attempted lift shot behind onto his stumps to give Starc his third wicket.
The day also started with an superb Marsh catch, with Shaun’s younger hermit Mitchell leaping high during gully to mislay Cook for a steep in a initial over.
The South Africans were shortly in worse trouble, with Hashim Amla also descending though measure when he pushed during a Hazlewood smoothness and edged to Australian skipper Steve Smith during second slip.
A tough possibility from Dean Elgar was grassed on 10, though he done usually dual some-more before being held behind by Peter Nevill from a bowling of Hazlewood with a measure on usually 20.
JP Duminy never looked gentle and also benefited from a life when he was on 8, though like Elgar he could not gain and was held behind for 11 off Peter Siddle.
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