Cricket
SA v Australia TestAustralia have the upper hand in Durban. In the first Test of three against South Africa, Australia made 390, South Africa were bowled out for 284, and a cricket.com.au blog had Australia 111 for 2 in their second innings, a lead of 217 with eight wickets in hand. Veteran seamer Anrich Nortje, back after three and a half years, took Alex Carey and Beau Webster. I could not confirm which day that snapshot came from or the final result.
Elsewhere: India and West Indies are level at 1–1 in a T20 series after West Indies won by six wickets in Ranchi on 9 October, with games on 14 October in Hyderabad and 17 October in Bengaluru. Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by four wickets in Rawalpindi on 9 October, and Australia's women lead Bangladesh 2–0 in the ODIs.
- 1st Test, Durban (9–13 Oct): Australia 390 & 111/2; South Africa 284 (snapshot; result not verified)
- India v West Indies T20Is: 1–1 after two (6 Oct, 9 Oct)
- Next Tests: Gqeberha 18–22 Oct, Cape Town 27–31 Oct
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game between two teams of 11. One side bats and tries to score runs, the other bowls and fields and tries to get ten batters out. A batter scores by running between the two sets of stumps or by hitting the ball over the boundary for 4 (along the ground) or 6 (in the air).
Formats vary in length. A Test match lasts up to five days with two innings per side and is regarded as the highest form. A one-day international is 50 overs a side (an over is six balls). Twenty20 is 20 overs a side and over in about three hours.
White-ball means the limited-overs formats, which use a white ball and coloured kit. The Ashes between England and Australia is the best-known Test rivalry.