Fast bowler Anrich Nortje has ripped by means of the West Indies center order to take 5-36 as South Africa opened up a 179-run lead with six second innings wickets remaining on the shut of the second day of the see-saw first Test at Centurion Park.
South Africa limped to 4-49 of their second innings having been all out for 342 of their first early on the second morning on Wednesday.
They dismissed West Indies for 212 in reply as seamer Gerald Coetzee additionally claimed figures of 2-45 on debut, with 24 wickets already misplaced in six periods within the match.
Dean Elgar (1), debutant Tony de Zorzi (0), Keegan Petersen (7) and Temba Bavuma (0), with a pair of geese, are all already dismissed for the house aspect of their second innings.
Bavuma is the fourth participant to get a pair on their check debut after Mark Taylor, Rashid Latif and Habibul Bashar.
First innings centurion Aiden Markram (35 not out) and Heinrich Klaasen (0 not out) will resume on the third morning, hoping to construct on what’s already a sizeable benefit.
Seamer Alzarri Joseph (2-17) has impressed once more after he claimed a maiden Test five-wicket haul in South Africa’s first innings with 5-81.
“It’s not the quickest wicket, it’s going a little up and down, but we are just sticking to our plans,” Nortje mentioned. “I need to adjust a little now and then. It’s just about finding that rhythm.
“We want some kind of partnership to take the result in 250-plus. Definitely that is very aggressive. The extra we are able to get the higher, however I’d assume 250-plus is an excellent rating.”
West Indies made a strong start to their first innings but lost their final seven wickets for 43 runs as Nortje proved chief destroyer.
Kagiso Rabada (2-44) claimed the first wicket with a beautiful delivery that angled into captain Kraigg Brathwaite (11) and then seamed away off the pitch and hit the top of off-stump.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul (22), son of West Indies great Shivnarine, was caught by Senuran Muthusamy at gully to give Coetzee his first Test wicket.
The visitors showed some dogged determination in the face of hostile home bowling and Blackwood reached 37 before an inside edge off Nortje was caught by diving wicketkeeper Klaasen.
They had been nonetheless sitting comparatively comfortably on 3-169, however when innings prime scorer Raymon Reifer (62) was caught by Klaasen off Marco Jansen, it precipitated a collapse.
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