South Africa v Australia: third men’s one-day international – live | Australia cricket team

Australia
Mitch Marsh *
Travis Head
Cooper Connolly
Ollie Peake
Alex Carey +
Matt Renshaw
Cam Green
Pat Cummins
Xavier Bartlett
Mitchell Starc
Adam Zampa

South Africa
Aiden Markram *
Quinton de Kock +
Tony de Zorzi
Matthew Breetzke
Ryan Rickelton
Tristan Stubbs
Corbin Bosch
Gerald Coetzee
Bjorn Fortuin
Nqobani Mokoena
Lizaad Williams

Hooray, coin time. Temba Bavuma is rested, with Aiden Markram taking his place as captain.

This would be much more interesting if they at least had the toss, so we would have the teams. Keen to see who’s playing today. Is Pat Cummins going to have a warm-up before the Test series? It would be more like a cooldown out there. He kind of has to play really, Ellis can’t play after that side strain that took him out of the last match early.

It’s not raining, they just had a lot of rain earlier, so even though the covers are off, they have a lot of soaking-up work to do. Potch is at reasonably high altitude, so apparently it’s cold today as well as wet. Not much fun for cricketers.

Okay, we spoke too soon. There is a wet outfield at the ground in Potchefstroom, so the toss has been delayed.

You know what they say: better to have delayed and tossed than never to have tossed at all.

Hello! Game 3 and final today, with South Africa already taking the series in the first two. It has been a battle of the middle overs, with the home spinners thoroughly doing the job over the visiting batting. Australia, defending champions, need a solution to getting tied down, with just a year to go until the next World Cup, also in South Africa. So, still a lot to play for today.