South Africa Test Team (Photo: ICC)
Bangladesh National Cricket Team vs South Africa National Cricket Team 2nd Test Match Day 3 Scorecard: The second Test match of the two-match Test series between Bangladesh national cricket team and South Africa national cricket team was played from 29 October. This match between the two teams was played at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram. In the second test, South Africa defeated Bangladesh by an innings and 273 runs. With this, the South African team has made a clean sweep of Bangladesh 2-0 in the series. Najmul Hossain Shanto was leading Bangladesh in the second test. Whereas the command of South Africa was on the shoulders of Aiden Markram. WTC Points Table 2023-25: South Africa moves towards WTC final after defeating Bangladesh, Team India's troubles increase; Know the condition of other teams here
By winning this series, South Africa won the Test series in Asia after 10 years. Earlier, South Africa had won the Test series played in Asia in 2014. South Africa has won after losing five test series in Asia. This victory in Asia after almost a decade was very special for South Africa in Tests.
Earlier, on the first day of the second Test, South Africa captain Aiden Markram won the toss and decided to bat first. After winning the toss, South Africa's team, which came to bat in the first innings, had an excellent start and both the openers put 69 runs on the board for the first wicket.
In the first innings, the South African team scored 575 runs losing six wickets in 144.2 overs and declared the innings. For South Africa, three batsmen played brilliant century innings. Tony De Zorzi scored the highest score of 177 runs. Apart from Tony De Zorzi, Tristan Stubbs played innings of 106 runs and Vian Mulder played innings of 105 unbeaten runs.
Apart from these three, David Bedingham scored 59 runs and Senuran Muthusamy scored 68 not out. Taijul Islam gave the first major success to the Bangladesh team. For Bangladesh, fast bowler Taijul Islam took the maximum of five wickets. Apart from Taijul Islam, Nahid Rana got one wicket.
In reply, the Bangladesh team, which came to bat in the first innings, had a disappointing start and four batsmen of the team returned to the pavilion after scoring just 32 runs. In the first innings, the entire Bangladesh team was limited to just 159 runs in 45.2 overs. For Bangladesh, Mominul Haq scored the highest score of 82 runs in 112 balls. Whereas for South Africa, Kagiso Rabada has taken 5 wickets. Apart from this, Dan Patterson and Keshav Maharaj got 2-2 wickets. At present South Africa had given follow-on to Bangladesh.
After getting the follow-on, Bangladesh's batsmen, who came to bat in the second innings, once again disappointed and half the team returned to the pavilion for just 47 runs. In the second innings, the entire Bangladesh team was reduced to just 143 runs in 43.4 overs. Hasan Mahmood scored the maximum 38 runs for Bangladesh. Apart from Hasan Mahmood, captain Nazmul Hussain Shanto scored 36 runs. In the second innings, Keshav Maharaj took the maximum of five wickets for South Africa. Apart from Keshav Maharaj, Senuran Muthusamy took four wickets.
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