Family support for Australia's Labuschagne in South Africa

Marnus Labuschagne will be supported by several of his South African family when he plays for Australia in the first one-day international against South Africa at Boland Park on Saturday.

Some of those family members share his surname -- but not the way it is pronounced.

It has been a source of some amusement for South Africans to hear the way Australia's rising batting star's name is pronounced -- Lab-u-shane, quite different from the more guttural Afrikaans Lab-u-scargh-nay.

"Lab-u-shane is my taken name now because I'm Australian," he said on Friday in his first press conference in the land of his birth.

"Obviously there is the traditional way it is pronounced over here but I'm not bothered at all. I'm not concerned how it is pronounced."
"There's been a lot of variations and a fair few nicknames but Lab-u-shane is what it is."
"I've never played over here (at the top level) so it's very exciting to play in front of my family over here. They're all very excited and it was nice to spend a couple of days with them."
- 'Bit of Afrikaans floating about' -
"I went to an Afrikaans school until I was in grade three so I've still got a bit of Afrikaans floating about."