The Proteas took advantage of desperately poor bowling from the West Indies, to put themselves in the perfect position to dominate the second Test that started in sunny conditions here Wednesday morning.
There was zero control or consistency, in a listless bowling effort, with Alzarri Joseph, who took a first innings ‘five-fer’ in Centurion last week, looking like someone who’d had a bad night’s sleep.
Dean Elgar and Aiden Markram eased into their work, both driving crisply when the ball was over-pitched and when the West Indies tried to correct themselves, they were too short, allowing liberal use of the cut and pull from the two Proteas openers. It was a fluent innings from Elgar who quickly gained the measure of the surface and most likely couldn’t believe his eyes at the number of freebies on offer.
The last over of Joseph’s first spell summed up the West Indies’ morning. Elgar cut the first ball, short and wide for four; drove the next delivery, overpitched down the ground for another boundary; and two balls later Markram drove the third boundary in the over against another ball that was over-pitched.
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