Bangladesh on Monday (April 4) collapsed to just 53 all out in the final innings of the Durban Test versus South Africa. Chasing the stiff target of 274, the tourists, who had resumed their innings on Day 5 at an overnight score of 11 for 3, were dismissed inside just 19 overs worth of batting. […]
Bangladesh on Monday (April 4) collapsed to just 53 all out in the final innings of the Durban Test versus South Africa. Chasing the stiff target of 274, the tourists, who had resumed their innings on Day 5 at an overnight score of 11 for 3, were dismissed inside just 19 overs worth of batting.
The Asian Tigers recorded their second lowest score ever in Test match history after their horrendous 43 all out in a defeat at North Sound, Antigua against the West Indies back in 2018. But perhaps this one would pain the Bangladeshis a lot more because of their unprecedented success in New Zealand this January.
The Mominul Haque led side won a Test match on Kiwi soil for the very first time, clinching a comprehensive win in Mount Maunganui to secure a mighty impressive and encouraging 1-1 scoreline for the two-match series.
That victory in New Zealand had added to the wave of anticipation around the Bangladesh side ahead of the South African trip, especially as the hosts miss multiple of their stars, including the entire first-choice pace attack, for the two Test matches due to their overlapping with the IPL 2022.
But in the end, fans were left with bitter disappointment as they suffered second worst collapse in Test history to South Africa’s understrength bowling unit.
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Bangladesh went down heavily against South Africa in the first Test in Durban.
In a sorry looking scorecard, middle-order batter Najmul Hossain Shanto (26) and tailender Taskin Ahmed (14) were the only Bangladesh players to reach the double digits. Interestingly, it wasn’t the pace that led to Bangladesh’s downfall but the South Africa spin duo of Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer, who ran through a visiting batting unit on a rare dry, turning surface in home conditions.
Maharaj took a haul of 7 for 32 off just 10 overs, relishing his time on the rarest of rare South African pitches that offered him something. At the other end, Harmer also showed Bangladesh zero respite and added three scalps to his kitty for the Test match after a four-wicket haul in the first innings.
Together the Maharaj-Harmer duo inspired South Africa’s massive victory and led to Bangladesh’s ignominious collapse to just 53 all out, which got the fans reacting in shock and disappointment over social media.
Bangladesh has never qualified to play a 20-over match in Test cricket. Bangladesh gave its proof today#BCB #Bangladesh #IPL2022 #SAvsBANG pic.twitter.com/EU4ZedzZA9
— Sunzid Ahamed (@iamsunzid) April 4, 2022
Bangladesh really succumbed like that
— Tanzeel (@Tanzeelified) April 4, 2022
Bangladesh
— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh) April 4, 2022
Bangladesh’s last three second innings team totals in South Africa: 53, 172, 90
— Shubh Aggarwal (@shubh_chintak) April 4, 2022
What a spell by Keshav Maharaj, 5 for 14 runs from just 5.5 overs and Bangladesh 26 for 6 while chasing 274 runs. #SAvBAN pic.twitter.com/92JjnVnq9Z
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 4, 2022
Unfortunately the test match was won by South Africa straight after the toss when Bangladesh elected to field and played one specialist spinner in kingsmead. https://t.co/q9nToqMCV6
— Prasanna (@prasannalara) April 4, 2022
Only the 3rd time that all 10 wickets have been taken by spinners in an innings by South Africa. All 3 instances have been at Durban.
vs England in 1948/49
vs Australia in 1949/50
vs Bangladesh in 2021/22#SAvBAN— Gurkirat Singh Gill (@gurkiratsgill) April 4, 2022
Keshav Maharaj’s father applauding and clapping for his son when Maharaj takes 7 wicket haul against Bangladesh, looked at Maharaj’s celebration. #SAvBAN pic.twitter.com/LGbhaPrz4w
— CricketMAN2 (@ImTanujSingh) April 4, 2022
The win also gave South Africa an unassailable 1-0 lead in the two-match series and 12 crucial points in the new cycle of the World Test Championship (WTC).
