The Australia tour of South Africa 2026, 2nd test match series is scheduled to take place on Sunday October, 18 around 10:00 am at the St. George’s Park, in Gweberha, South Africa. The test series is part of the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship (WTC) cycle.
For the second test match South Africa Cricket team will be led by the Captain Temba Bavuma and accompanied by Dane Paterson, Simon Harmer, Keshav Maharaj, David Bedingham, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Senuran Muthusamy, Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Marques Ackerman, Kyle Verreynne, Wiaan Mulder, Matthew Breetzke, Gerald Coetzee and Marco Jansen.
Moreover, for the second test match South Africa Cricket Organisation dropped the player Tristan Stubbs and called up Matthew Breetzke and for the second test match organisations gave the wicket keeping duties to Ryan Rickelton in place of Kyle Verreynne.
The Australia squad for second test match consist of Captain Pat Cummins accompanied by Josh Hazlewood, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Nic Maddinson, Nathan Lyon, Michael Neser, Scott Boland, Travis Head, Beau Webster, Alex Carey, Sam Harper, Matthew Kuhnemann, Matt Renshaw,Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis, Cameron Green and Cooper Connolly.
Additionally, the 1st test match of the series officially started on October 9, 2026 and concluded on October 13, 2026 at the Kingsmead in Durban, South Africa. The match was won by the Australia team 214 runs taking the 1-o lead in the series. In the first innings of the match Australia scored 390 runs and all out and the South Africa team scored 284 runs and all out.
In the second innings Australia scored 314 runs for the loss of six wickets before declaring their innings, while the South Africa team were bowled out for 206 runs. Notably, the third test match of the series will be played on October 27 to 31, 2026 at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town, South Africa.