Two centuries and a near miss gave SA plenty to be cheerful about on the first day of their tour match against a South Australia XI in Glenelg on Thursday. SA racked up 489 with Dean Elgar scoring 117, Faf du Plessis making 102 and Quinton de Kock out for 99. Elgar and Du Plessis retired but De Kock’s innings ended when he tried to loft off-spinner Michael Cormack and was caught at mid-on. But it was not all sunshine and runs for the visitors. There will, for instance, be concern over the form of Stephen Cook, who was dismissed for a duck to bring his aggregate after three innings on tour to 17. Temba Bavuma, who scored a bright 43 on Thursday, is the only other frontline batsman in the squad who has not scored at least a half-century in SA’s two tour matches. Cook, Amla and Rossouw were all dismissed in the first 10 overs with only 46 runs on the board before Elgar and Du Plessis turned the innings around. Du Plessis, usually a conservative batsman, spanked his runs off 112 balls w...
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