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Australia get too clever and pay the price for batting order jumble

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South Africa beat Australia to a second consecutive World Test Championship title.

Australia went in with a discombobulated top order, picking players out of position, after a couple of years of shifting and shuffling more than Shivnarine Chanderpaul .

It s important to acknowledge that picking a team for a one -off match is a lottery.

People who would have greeted a win with a shrug will be incensed by the loss.

By the time Smith returns, Labuschagne should either have found runs or found the bench and Green should either be an all-rounder again or making way for someone who is. It will not solve the week just gone, though, when Australia got a little too clever and South Africa outdid them by simply playing smart..

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