Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada take away West Indies’ openers

West Indies 71 for two (Reifer 19*, Blackwood 13*, Rabada 1-16) path South Africa 342 (Markram 115, Elgar 71, Joseph 5-81) by 271 runs

Despite shedding the important thing wickets of their openers, West Indies managed to discover a boundary-rich circulation to their innings, a theme widespread with South Africa’s first innings. Jermaine Blackwood got here in with constructive intent that led to agency strokemaking, serving to the guests get to 71 for two at lunch.

South Africa’s bowlers began nicely. Rabada was on track with the brand new ball, he hit a size at will to continuously threaten the surface edge. Marco Jansen supported him from the opposite finish however Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul ensured being crushed did not cease them; they acquired the odd boundary and pushed by.

That was till the seventh over, when Rabada first beat Brathwaite’s outdoors edge with the ball angling away. Two balls later, he straightened the road a bit to go previous the defence with the wobbly ball that seamed away to dislodge the bails.

Chanderpaul continued to be tight in his defence however went after unfastened balls. Marco Jansen pitching up led to an off-drive within the eighth over. Rabada supplied a brief and vast ball subsequent over that was ramped over level, and Nortje’s half-volley in his second over was creamed by cowl.

Raymon Reifer settled in with boundaries of his personal by the off aspect. The stand hit its first bump when Chanderpaul fended a ball to Tony de Zorzi at quick leg however survived as replays confirmed the ball had bounced earlier than being grabbed.

But Chanderpaul misplaced his wicket within the subsequent over when he went for a slashing drive off Coetzee that was plucked by Senuran Muthusamy at gully; that gave debutant Coetzee his first Test wicket. Blackwood joined Reifer to take South Africa safely to lunch.

The day began with South Africa’s decrease order squeezing out 28 runs from 4.3 overs to succeed in 342, earlier than Joseph acquired Coetzee and Nortje to register his first Test five-for and restrict the injury. He completed with 5 for 81 however went for runs when he pitched the ball up on the second morning; in all 5 boundaries have been scored amongst Coetzee, Marco Jansen, and Nortje, permitting the hosts to go at simply over a run a ball. Nortje picked up three fours earlier than top-edging a slog to Tagenarine Chanderpaul sq. on the offside to finish the innings.