1st Test February 28 - West Indies tour of South Africa

212 all out

Reifer 62, Blacks 37

Fall of wickets:
1-22 (Kraigg Brathwaite, 6.4 ov)
2-58 (Tagenarine Chanderpaul, 16.4 ov)

49 - 4

Markram 35 *, Zorzi DUCK, Bavuma another DUCK

Stumps day 2 - South Africa lead by 179 runs

"Not only a pair on test captaincy, but a 3 ball pair.
Is that the lowest # of balls faced for a pair in test cricket?"
It indeed is the fewest for any captain to get a pair in Test cricket.
However, players have got two golden ducks in a Test on quite a few instances..

Alzarri Joseph went jaffa for jaffa in the next two overs to have
Tony de Zorzi and Temba Bavuma
- who bagged a pair on captaincy debut - caught behind.

SUMMARY: South Africa 342 all out (Aiden Markram 115, Dean Elgar 71; Alzarri Joseph 5-81) and 49-4 (Aiden Markram 35*; Joseph 2-17, Holder 1-0) lead West Indies 212 (Raymon Reifer 62, Jermaine Blackwood 37; Anrich Nortje 5-36, Kagiso Rabada 2-44) by 179 runs

South Africa had started the day on 314-8. Rabada, Coetzee and Jansen made 28 in 27, they punished full balls, but could not stop Joseph from registering his first Test five-for

Tough loss

Target : 247

159 all out

Blackwood 79 ,Braff DUCK, Mayers DUCK, Chase DUCK

South Africa won by 87 runs

Lots of ducks

Select Drakes :
Vasbert son that play CPL ?
too many Ducks in the squad !

It's clear from this Test that both West Indies and South Africa have batting issues

However, after this series, both teams only play 2 more Test matches for the rest of 2023

So both sides will have the same issues this time next year, you can't solve flaws without playing