2024-08-17 01:15:47
Guyana’s last Test match was played at Providence Stadium 13 years ago. More than an era has passed since that match between West Indies and Pakistan. After that, with the Tests of West Indies and South Africa, the match of white clothes has returned to Guyana again. In the return match, Guyana witnessed 17 wickets in one day. At the end of the day, South Africa is ahead.
Batting first in the match, visiting South Africa were bowled out for 160 runs. After that, West Indies lost 7 wickets to score 97 runs in the rest of the day. In total, 257 runs were scored on the first day of the match. On the second morning, South Africa will come into play from 63 runs behind with 3 wickets in hand.
South Africa won the toss and started to bat. They had no answer to West Indies’ pace. To score 20 runs, 3 wickets have to be lost. Both of which were picked up by Shamar Joseph. Jaydon Sills and Jason Holder joined the attack in partnership with him. That started the batting collapse. 9 wickets just short of a hundred.
From there, Dan Pied and Nandre Berger took South Africa’s runs past 150 runs with an average of 63 runs. Last batsman Berger scored 23 runs before being dismissed by Gudakesh Moti, Pied remained unbeaten on a team-high 38 runs. Shamar took maximum 5 wickets for West Indies.
West Indies didn’t get off to a good start in the run chase. Mikail Lewis returned in the second over to Berger. Then West Indies started losing wickets one after another when Wian Mulder also started hitting. At one time the scoreboard became 56 runs, 6 wickets! Holder was trying to make a pair with Moti in the end.
Late in the day, Moti Keshav Maharaj’s LBW brought the day’s play to a close. Holder remained unbeaten on 33 off 51 balls.
Summary Score:
South Africa 1st Innings: 160 in 54 overs (Pied 38*, Bedingham 28, Stubbs 26, Berger 23; Shamar 5/33, Sills 3/45).
West Indies 1st Innings: 97/7 in 28.2 overs (Holder 33*, Curty 26, Moti 11; Mulder 4/18, Berger 2/32).