'Will they rate this pitch as poor' - Fans react as the first Test between Australia and South Africa ends on day 2

Australia and South Africa are locking horns in the first of the three-match Test series at the Brisbane Cricket Ground in Brisbane. The ongoing encounter between two cricketing heavyweights has stunned the entire cricketing fraternity with a shocking turnaround of things only on the second day of the match.

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The first Test match between Australia and Dean Elgar’s men ended only on the second day. None of the cricket fans and experts expected this kind of result in this match between two big teams in the cricketing World.

The cricket fans have also come with multiple reactions on the same, some of the fans were in shock, whereas a few went on to criticize and question the surface of Brisbane Cricket Ground.

Here’s how fans reacted:

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Since this test match is gonna end within 2 days , bowlers r dominating. Will @ICC rate this pitch poor? #AUSvSA #TestCricket

— Priyanshu 🇮🇳 (@im_Priyanshu) December 18, 2022

Time to let the curator face a couple after the game. #AUSvSA

— Cam (@camliveshere) December 18, 2022

Absolutely rubbish wow done in 2 days, won by bye balls😂😂 #AUSvSA

— kealie🖤🤍💙💛 (@magpieskealie) December 18, 2022

As #AUSvSA is over in just 2 days I’m now watching on the tv of #PAKvENG and listening to @bbctms coverage of #PAKvENG over here in oz using a vpn Aggers @Cricket_Mann @norcrosscricket @AlexHartley93 Vic Marks @ZaltzCricket

— bec s (@bec_8888) December 18, 2022

A target of around 100 would've made this one very interesting. #AUSvSA #Rabada was on 🔥

— Ashish (@ashishkibaat) December 18, 2022

This younger cricketing generation just has no attention span #AUSvSA

— Liam (@LiamJClarkson) December 18, 2022

This pitch need to be given bad rating, as batters were never really came into game in this match. They always criticize when sub-continent pitches are turners, but this wasn't a test match pitch either and getting a result in 2 days proved that. #AUSvSA #Pitch #gabba #KG

— Varun Bothra (@VarunBothra5) December 18, 2022

I don't agree with everyone calling for Warner's head. Easily one of our best ever test openers and has earned the right to go out on his own terms. Tough to judge batsman on this minefield of a pitch too obviously #AUSvSA

— Mathew (@Brooma_23) December 18, 2022

Extras top score with 19 Lol! 😆#AUSvSA

— Malik Allah Rakha (@MalicAllahRakha) December 18, 2022

Rabada bowls the magical spell in 2nd innings of Australia, he conceded 13 runs and takes 4 wickets. #AUSvSA

— Jaya Suriyan (@ImSurya05) December 18, 2022

I am sad, not for #SouthAfrica losing within 2 days.
I am sad what will i do for rest of 3 days. #AUSvSA #AUSvsSA

— Salman Sikandar (@SALSIKandar) December 18, 2022

Speaking of the entire action of the match in the first two days, the hosts' skipper Pat Cummins won the flip of the coin and asked the Proteas team to bat first. Batting first, the Australian bowling duo of senior bowlers, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon scalped a total of six wickets collectively. Other than these Starc and Lyon, skipper Pat Cummins and pacer Scott Boland also claimed two wickets each to bundle up South Africa only on the score of 152 runs.

Australia could manage to post a total of only 218 runs in their first innings, thanks to the 92-run knock from Travis Head supported by former skipper Steve Smith who contributed 36 runs. Senior South African pacer Kagiso Rabada scalped four wickets in the first inning alongside three wickets claimed by Marco Jansen.

Talking about the second innings of the match, the South African side bundled up only the double-digit score of 99 runs and they could post a target of only 34 runs to Australia in the fourth innings of the match.

Although star pacer Kagiso Rabada made it very hard for Australia to chase the target of 34 runs easily and he scalped four wickets individually.

But eventually, the hosts won the match by six wickets, courtesy of the uneven bounce and below-average surface of the Brisbane Cricket Ground.