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South Africa's Marco Jansen leaves the tract arsenic helium holds the shot aft taking 7 wickets during the 2nd time of the archetypal Test cricket lucifer betwixt South Africa and Sri Lanka, astatine Kingsmead stadium successful Durban, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Left-arm seamer Marco Jansen returned with vocation champion figures of 7/13 arsenic Sri Lanka were bowled retired for their grounds debased of 42 successful their archetypal innings of the Durban Test against South Africa connected Thursday. In an innings that lasted lone 13.5 overs, Sri Lanka’s full of 42 is the lowest by immoderate squad against South Africa arsenic the hosts took a 149-lead contempt being bowled retired for 191 earlier connected Day 2.
In all, 16 wickets person fallen truthful acold astatine Kingsmead aft nary play was imaginable connected Day 1 aft luncheon due to the fact that of rains. In what was expected to beryllium amended conditions for batting – Mike Haysman said connected aerial that the seam question was 0.9 degrees and plaything was 0.5 degrees – Jansen, Gerald Coetzee and Kagiso Rabada ran done the Lankan batting line-up, taking conscionable 83 deliveries to cleanable up Lanka’s batting. In seaming conditions Sri Lanka batsmen’s exertion with the bat was recovered wanting arsenic Jansen became lone the 2nd subordinate aft Hugh trumble of Australia (1904) to instrumentality a 7-fer wrong 7 overs of a Test Innings.
In each 5 Sri Lanka batsmen – Dinesh Chandimal, Kusal Mendis, Prabhath Jayasuriya, Vishwa Fernando and Asitha Fernando – were dismissed for zero arsenic Kamindu Mendis erstwhile again top-scored with 13. When South Africa took the field, they were a bowler abbreviated with their seam bowling all-rounder Wiaan Mulder unavailable to instrumentality the tract due to the fact that of a fractured digit helium suffered portion batting.
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42 is Sri Lanka’s lowest full with their erstwhile 1 being 71 against Pakistan astatine Kandy successful 1994.
83 deliveries faced by Sri Lanka successful their archetypal innings is 2nd slightest a squad has consumed aft South Africa were bowled retired for 30 runs successful 75 balls (12.3 overs) against England astatine Edgbaston successful 1924.
7/13 by Jansen is the third-best bowling fig by a South African pacer astatine location and the champion bowling figures by a South African pacer this century.
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