Marco Jansen bowled South Africa right into a dominant place as Sri Lanka crashed to 42 all out, its lowest complete in Check cricket, on the second day of the primary Check towards South Africa at Kingsmead on Thursday.
The left-arm quick bowler took seven for 13 as Sri Lanka was bowled out in 13.5 overs – the second-shortest accomplished Check innings in historical past.
It gave South Africa a first-innings lead of 149 after it had been dismissed for a modest 191 in its first innings.
The host stretched its result in 281 runs when it scored 132 for 3 in its second innings.
It was a rare efficiency by the 24-year-old Jansen, at 2.06 metres one of many tallest gamers in worldwide cricket.
Having performed solely in eight T20 matches since getting back from a three-month “conditioning break”, Jansen initially struggled to seek out his rhythm with a crimson ball in hand, sending down a large and a no-ball earlier than opening batsman Pathum Nissanka needed to put bat on ball.
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Kagiso Rabada made the breakthrough for South Africa when he had Dimuth Karunaratne caught at first slip earlier than Jansen, in his second over, bowled a supply shut sufficient to Nissanka to induce an edge to 3rd slip.
It sparked an impressed spell. On a pitch which helped seam bowlers all through, Jansen’s tempo and bounce, allied with the flexibility to make the ball swing in as a variation to his pure angle throughout right-handed batsmen, proved devastating.
The left-handed Kamindu Mendis, coming into his ninth Check match with a batting common of 91.27, stroked three fours and made the highest rating of 13 for Lanka earlier than he edged a wild drive towards Gerald Coetzee to offer David Bedingham together with his third catch of the innings at first slip.
Good work undone by collapse
Sri Lanka’s collapse negated the efforts of its bowlers, who had completed nicely to dismiss South Africa in an prolonged morning’s play.
Captain Temba Bavuma top-scored with 70 for South Africa. The one different house batsman to high 20 was Keshav Maharaj, batting at quantity 10, who made a rapid 24.
Opening bowlers Asitha Fernando and Vishwa Fernando took three and two wickets respectively however the main injury was completed by quick bowler Lahiru Kumara, whose figures of three for 70 didn’t do justice to an aggressive efficiency.
Kumara made the primary breakthrough on Thursday, trapping Kyle Verreynne leg earlier than wicket for 9 after South Africa added simply three runs to their in a single day complete of 80 for 4.
Kumara additionally compelled all-rounder Wiaan Mulder to retire damage with a fractured proper center finger.
Mulder was dominated out of bowling or fielding for the remainder of the match – though he returned on the fall of the ninth wicket to assist Kagiso Rabada add 26 runs for the final wicket.
Surprisingly, he batted at quantity three within the second innings, scoring 15 in what appears sure to be his final involvement within the match.
Left-arm spinner Prabath Jayasuriya supplied a spotlight for Sri Lanka when he dismissed Tony de Zorzi for 17 within the second innings. It was his one centesimal wicket in his seventeenth Check, the joint second-fewest in historical past to achieve the milestone.
In distinction to Wednesday when rain restricted play to twenty.4 overs, there was shiny sunshine on Thursday with a robust breeze blowing throughout the bottom.