South Africa pray Zimbabwe in thunder African safari: Four Day test match
South Africa pray Zimbabwe in thunder African safari: Four Day test match
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South African Morkel claimed a five-wicket haul and was brilliant with his unplayable spell yesterday. A second innings 5-fer for Maharaj sealed Zimbabwe's fate, who will look to rebuild after this heavy defeat. We will be back for the presentation ceremony and the captains' comments in a bit.

So that's the end of a historic Test at the scenic St. George's Park stadium in Port Elizabeth. A four-day Test has become a further more truncated contest, as it ends within two days! South African skipper AB de Villiers declared in the final session of Day 1 on 309/9, after Markram essayed a fluent and gritty 125. Zimbabwe lost 4 quick wickets under lights and proved AB right, and they went on to be decimated for 68 in the first session of today. They started the second innings with some stoic resistance but then lost the plot, as they crashed to an anti-climatic innings and 120-run defeat

In the South African innings skipper hit 40th Test fifty for AB de Villiers! He's back, and looks in fine touch. World cricket missed him. So did all of us. Didn't we? Gets there by gently tapping a short of length delivery to the right of the bowler. Second century in Test cricket for Markram. Well played boy. It's a tossed up delivery outside off, Markram creams the drive through the gap at covers and finds the fence. South Africa needed a consistent player at the top and they have found one. Has been a solid knock by the youngster.

 

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