Grandstand At Stumps: Renshaw and Cummins save Australia as Maddinson experiment fails

Australia scrambled to 6/187 when bad light brought a premature end to the first day's play, thanks largely to an unbeaten half century partnership between Matt Renshaw and Pat Cummins. 

Captain Cummins elected to bat first upon winning the toss, and pulled a surprise selection with Nic Maddinson picked to open the batting alongside Travis Head despite not not playing a first class game in 19 months as he overcame testicular cancer. 

The Maddinson experiment failed, with the opener making a 33-ball duck, despite surviving a decision not to review by the South Africans when it appeared he should have been dismissed LBW. 

Corbin Middlemas, Phil Jaques and Jason Gillespie wrap up all the action from Day 1 in Durban. 

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