Spinners Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer ripped through Bangladesh’s batting line-up to secure a 220-run first Test win.
It was a rare sight throughout this Test to see two South African spinners operating in tandem. It was rarer still to see them open the morning’s play on day five when the light was good enough for seamers to operate.
They were eventually rolled for 53 — the lowest innings total yet at Kingsmead — as Maharaj and Harmer picked up all 10 Bangladesh second-innings wickets between them. South Africa’s Adrian Holdstock and Marais Erasmus were the men in the middle. They were overruled several times on referral, but the BCB’s inference that there was bias, smacks of desperation.
It’s put-up or shut-up time for ‘step-aside’ – ANC’s decision on Dlamini, Msibi & Gumede may shape its futureFor Maharaj, it was a personal triumph on his home ground, just a few kilometres from where he went to school. It was his eighth five-wicket haul in Tests and his first at Kingsmead and the first by a South African spinner at the ground in the post-isolation era.
“I understand that you’re not going to get wickets all the time. I was in a good space in terms of the way I felt the ball was coming out,” Maharaj said after the match. “It does get a bit frustrating not getting rewards.” Elgar admitted the situation was unusual and unlikely to continue in places where the conditions don’t allow for it.
“We play quite a lot of cricket in the sub . It was great to expose our bowling attack to having two spinners operating in tandem. There are so many positives out of that. There’s a lot of good things that happened in the last five days.”Harmer’s first Test appearance for seven years after he chose to further his career in England as a Kolpak player, was a triumph.
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