{"id":11380,"date":"2016-11-03T01:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T01:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bb-auae-prd-ext-blog-01.azurewebsites.net\/more\/first-test-australia-v-south-africa-preview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:51:43","slug":"first-test-australia-v-south-africa-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/cricket\/first-test-australia-v-south-africa-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"First Test &#8211; Australia v South Africa Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia vs South Africa<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst Test, WACA, 3-7 November 2016<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the third ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebet.com.au\/sports\/Cricket\/World\/ICC-Test-Championship-2016---Australia-v-South-Africa\/7618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australians ($2.00)<\/a> taking on the fifth ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebet.com.au\/sports\/Cricket\/World\/ICC-Test-Championship-2016---Australia-v-South-Africa\/7618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africans ($2.85)<\/a> in the first test at the WACA. The teams are very different to the ones that played each other in the recent ODI series, which South Africa won 5-0. Both teams have shown indifferent form in the long form of the game, and that makes the first test pivotal in this three match series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Form Line<\/strong><br \/>\nAustralia lost their most recent test series 3-0 in Sri Lanka, yet they had a victorious clean sweep in New Zealand early this year. Australia\u2019s recent home form is impressive as their last eighteen home tests have resulted in 14 wins and 4 draws. South Africa won the two test series against New Zealand at home 1-0 three months ago, however they have only won 2 of their last 12 tests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Record<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the last three years Australia has 1 win, 1 loss and 1 draw at the WACA. The solitary win was three years ago against the old foe England. In three attempts South Africa has never lost at the WACA. They have 2 wins and 1 draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Head to Head Record<\/strong><br \/>\nSince 2010 Australia and South Africa have played eight tests against each other. Australia has 3 wins, South Africa has 3 wins and there have been 2 draws. All of Australia\u2019s wins were in South Africa and their last victory over South Africa in a home test was in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest First Test markets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebet.com.au\/sports\/Cricket\/World\/ICC-Test-Championship-2016---Australia-v-South-Africa\/7618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue Bet Words<\/strong>: Rhys Thurston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia vs South Africa First Test, WACA, 3-7 November 2016 It\u2019s the third ranked Australians ($2.00) taking on the fifth ranked South Africans ($2.85) in the first test at the WACA. The teams are very different to the ones that played each other in the recent ODI series, which South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15470,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/15470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}