SA vs WI, 2nd Test: Holder’s unbeaten 81 frustrates South Africa on Day 2

Former captain Jason Holder lifted a struggling West Indies and pissed off South Africa with an innings of 81 not out on the second day of the second Test on the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday.

Thanks largely to Holder, the West Indies scored 251 in its first innings. It trailed by 69 runs however it regarded more likely to be a lot worse earlier than Holder performed a glowing innings.

South Africa confronted three overs on the finish of the day, scoring 4 runs with out loss to take its total result in 73 runs.

Whereas none of his teammates might rating freely — and none managed greater than Kyle Mayers’ battling 29 off 83 balls — the tall Holder regarded in command from the beginning of his innings.

Batting at quantity eight, he went in with the West Indies in huge bother at 116 for six in reply to South Africa’s 320 all out.

Holder and Joshua Da Silva (26) began the restoration by placing on 41 for the seventh wicket.

The comeback accelerated because the final two batters, Kemar Roach (13) and Gudakesh Motie (17) helped Holder add 89 runs for the final two wickets.

The Tenth-wicket partnership of 58 with Motie was the very best of the innings.

Holder hit 4 sixes and eight fours in a 117-ball innings.

Until Holder began enjoying his strokes, not one of the West Indies batters have been in a position to break the shackles of a disciplined South African bowling assault.

Gerald Coetzee, enjoying in his second Test, took three for 41 and fellow quick bowler Kagiso Rabada took two for 19. Rabada solely despatched down 12 overs and didn’t bowl after tea.

On a pitch anticipated to take spin later within the match, spinners Simon Harmer and Keshav Maharaj bowled a mixed 38.3 overs however might solely take three wickets whereas conceding 140 runs.

The day began nicely for the West Indies when it claimed South Africa’s remaining three wickets within the first three overs of the day.

But the West Indies innings began badly when Tagenarine Chanderpaul was run out for one by a direct hit from cowl by South African captain Temba Bavuma.

The vacationer slumped to 51 for 4 earlier than Roston Chase (28) and Mayers placed on a affected person 52 for the fifth wicket.