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GROS-ISLET (Saint Lucia): Anrich Nortje plowed West India’s top order at three gates as the home team was reduced to 48 at four at noon on the opening day of the first test in St Lucia on Thursday.
Home captain Kraigg Brathwaite and opening partner Shai Hope negotiated the first 45 minutes of the test in the cloudy sky against the opening balls against Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngid.
But the introduction of Nortje brought Hope an almost immediate benefit back into the team after trips to New Zealand and Bangladesh were missing and a home campaign against Sri Lanka had bowled an impressive, accurate sailor to end the 24-opening partnership.
Then Nortje bowled Brathwaite in his next match, the phlegmatic right-hander paid the final price for an error of judgment when he decided to offer any shots to the driver carrying him.
Rabada had worked impressively at the other end successfully, passing the outer edge at least a dozen times, until he received a well-deserved reward from the gate of Nkrumah Bonner.
Hit by rinsing his helmet when he was late hooked on the first ball in Nortje, he could do nothing to Rabada’s perfect tone, which took the edge to guard Quinton de Kock.
De Kock had not previously decided not to take his knee or raise his right fist, unlike his teammates on the field before the start of the game when South Africans joined the West Indian team to acknowledge the global Black Lives Matter movement and their concerns about racism and other forms of discrimination.
Nortje returned for another spell just before lunch and sent the troubled Kyle Mayers without too much trouble.
First convicted of a sidewalk sailor, he challenged the verdict only to play bad shots two deliveries later by offering a simple ski catch to Rassie van der Dussen on deck.
It left Roston Chase, who played his first test late last year after a tour of New Zealand, to survive alongside Vice Captain Jermaine Blackwood.
The West Indies debut for 19-year-old sprinter Jayden Seales, who has played only one first-class match in the past.
Instead, South Africa’s two debuts, midfielder Keegan Petersen and Kyle Verrynne, who get a chance due to an experienced Temba Bavuma hip injury, have both played more than 40 first-class matches.
This is the first test cricket meeting between two West Indian teams since 2010 and the first time since their historic one-off meeting in 1992 in Barbados that the Caribbean side is higher in the series than Proteas.
Home captain Kraigg Brathwaite and opening partner Shai Hope negotiated the first 45 minutes of the test in the cloudy sky against the opening balls against Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngid.
But the introduction of Nortje brought Hope an almost immediate benefit back into the team after trips to New Zealand and Bangladesh were missing and a home campaign against Sri Lanka had bowled an impressive, accurate sailor to end the 24-opening partnership.
Then Nortje bowled Brathwaite in his next match, the phlegmatic right-hander paid the final price for an error of judgment when he decided to offer any shots to the driver carrying him.
Rabada had worked impressively at the other end successfully, passing the outer edge at least a dozen times, until he received a well-deserved reward from the gate of Nkrumah Bonner.
Hit by rinsing his helmet when he was late hooked on the first ball in Nortje, he could do nothing to Rabada’s perfect tone, which took the edge to guard Quinton de Kock.
De Kock had not previously decided not to take his knee or raise his right fist, unlike his teammates on the field before the start of the game when South Africans joined the West Indian team to acknowledge the global Black Lives Matter movement and their concerns about racism and other forms of discrimination.
Nortje returned for another spell just before lunch and sent the troubled Kyle Mayers without too much trouble.
First convicted of a sidewalk sailor, he challenged the verdict only to play bad shots two deliveries later by offering a simple ski catch to Rassie van der Dussen on deck.
It left Roston Chase, who played his first test late last year after a tour of New Zealand, to survive alongside Vice Captain Jermaine Blackwood.
The West Indies debut for 19-year-old sprinter Jayden Seales, who has played only one first-class match in the past.
Instead, South Africa’s two debuts, midfielder Keegan Petersen and Kyle Verrynne, who get a chance due to an experienced Temba Bavuma hip injury, have both played more than 40 first-class matches.
This is the first test cricket meeting between two West Indian teams since 2010 and the first time since their historic one-off meeting in 1992 in Barbados that the Caribbean side is higher in the series than Proteas.
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