South Africa keen to spin another win over Bangladesh in second test

GQEBERHA, South Africa: Hosts South Africa will look to impose one other trial by spin on seething vacationers Bangladesh within the second and last check beginning at St George’s Park in Gqeberha, previously Port Elizabeth, on Thursday (Apr 7).

The house aspect accomplished a dominant 220-run victory within the first check on Monday, bowling Bangladesh out for a paltry 53 in a second innings which lasted solely 19 overs.

The guests’ administration have been sad with a few of the choices from native umpires Marais Erasmus and Adrian Holdstock in Durban and promised to lodge a proper grievance with the International Cricket Council.

Bangladesh skipper Mominul Haque gave a blunt evaluation of his aspect’s horror second innings, when all 10 wickets fell to spinners Keshav Maharaj (7-32) and Simon Harmer (3-21).

“I think it was a big crime on our part to give wickets to spinners on foreign soil,” he mentioned.

“You simply cannot give wickets to spinners when you are on tour. You have to score runs against spinners. It is nothing but a total batting failure. I think we just couldn’t handle the pressure.”

The pitch is anticipated to be low and gradual at St George’s Park and unlikely to provide the identical bounce as Kingsmead, which can be extra to the liking of the guests.

“We played well in four out of five days,” Mominul added. “There are enough positives to suggest to me that we can bounce back easily in the next game.”

South Africa are with out six regulars, with 5 enjoying within the Indian Premier League, together with their total first selection seam assault.

Those absences compelled them, in a approach, to play two spinners and captain Dean Elgar doesn’t foresee too many modifications for the second check, particularly with such a fast turnaround.

“It shows a lot of character with regards to adapting and being put in conditions we are not familiar with,” Elgar mentioned. “It additionally exhibits a number of power inside our group that we’ve the assets to adapt.

“We play quite a lot of cricket in the sub-continent. It was great to expose our bowling attack to having two spinners operating in tandem. There’s so many positives out of that.”