Rahul Tiwari
khelja|24-10-2024
South Africa team is currently on tour of Bangladesh. A 2-match test series is being played between the two teams. The South African team has started this series with a win. The first match of the series was played in Mirpur. In this match, South African team won by 7 wickets. This victory for the South African team is very special because they won a test match in Asia after 10 years. Second over: Bangladesh team could not last even 4 days in this match.
With this victory, South Africa ended its win drought in Asia. It had lost its last 9 matches in Asia, but now the African team managed to break this sequence. At the same time, Bangladesh was defeated by South Africa in a test match at home after 16 years. Earlier in the year 2008, South Africa had defeated Bangladesh in its own home. Along with this, Africa has also continued its dominance over Bangladesh. Actually, South Africa has not lost any test match against Bangladesh yet.
Bangladesh team captain Nazmul Shanto won the toss and chose to bat in this match, but his decision proved to be completely wrong. Bangladesh's first innings was limited to only 106 runs. Mahmudul Hasan Joy scored the maximum 30 runs, apart from him no other batsman could stay on the crease. At the same time, for South Africa, Kagiso Rabada, Viaan Mulder and Keshav Maharaj took 3-3 wickets.
In response, South Africa scored 308 runs in its first innings. Due to which Bangladesh team lagged behind by 202 runs. In this innings, Kyle Verne scored a century for South Africa. His innings came when South Africa had lost 6 wickets for 108 runs. After this Bangladesh scored 307 runs in its second innings. During this, Kagiso Rabada took 6 wickets. In such a situation, South Africa got the target of 106 runs to win the match. South Africa achieved this target at the loss of 3 wickets only.