South Africa vs Australia LIVE: Latest score and updates from Cricket World Cup

Huge turn, and Tabraiz Shamsi is certain! The umpire says no, but South Africa review immediately. Was the impact with Marnus Labuschagne’s pad outside the line?

The wicket brings together Marnus Labuschagne and fellow quirky kid Steve Smith, their idiosyncratic gifts well suited to this sort of situation with run rate not an issue and the task at hand eminently achievable. I’d be surprised if we see a seamer any time soon – there looks to be plenty there to excite Maharaj and Tabraiz Shamsi, who continues.

Keshav Maharaj strikes first ball!

Where has he been? It’s a beauty to start from the left-arm orthodox spinner, flight and drift drawing Travis Head into a drive. Maharaj’s turner slides between the gateposts and thumps into the stumps, ending Head’s spritely innings. But has the damage already been done? That feels like it could be a match-winning hand with Australia already halfway to South Africa’s total.

Well, perhaps repeatedly changing bowlers is South Africa’s best tactic – again Australia nearly gift them a wicket first ball, Steve Smith premeditating a lap sweep but having to claw it around the corner from well outside off, and in the process almost giving Temba Bavuma catching practice at square leg. Bavuma can’t get there, diving forward but connecting on the bounce.

Through slip’s hands! Another chance comes third ball, a thick edge flying at eye height over Heinrich Klaasen’s shoulder and too hot to handle for the keeper-convert. That’s boundary number nine for Travis Head to go along with a couple of sixes, but he’s riding his luck a little.

Yum. A lovely cover drive from Steve Smith, releasing the wrists to use the angle of attack from around the wicket to his advantage and guide a skidding off-break between the cover fielders.

The Gerald Coetzee experiment lasts a single over; Tabraiz Shamsi replaces him for some left-arm mystery.

Reeza Hendricks trudges off, Kagiso Rabada ready to return and the substitute fielder therefore no longer required. Will that spill be his only involvement in the semi-final? It was a toughie, but Hendricks is an excellent operator in the deep.

A half century for Travis Head, up off 40 balls after three more crisply struck boundaries. Coetzee gives him his favourite line and length outside off stump and Head is in a ravenous mood, munching away merrily as Australia accelerate.

And he could have had a wicket first ball! Head slashes the ball out to deep point, where substitute Reeza Hendricks is stationed. It dips on Hendricks late but he gets both hands to it, and he’ll be disappointed not to have clung on!

A change at the other end – and slightly surprisingly given the turn Markram is finding, it’s not one of South Africa’s two frontline spinners. Gerald Coetzee will stomp in instead.

The field spreads as Aiden Markram begins, five in the ring, four outside, with Australia already more than a third of the way there to their required 213.

This is good from Markram, pushing it full as much as possible and flighting his offies nicely. His last ball is less aesthetically pleasing, but Travis Head is happy to pat it down the ground for one and pinch the strike.