West Indies pacer Jayden Seales bowled one of the finest-ever lengths of Test cricket to get rid of South Africa’s young opener in just the fourth over on day 1 of the second Test on Thursday.
Seales landed it on a good length and an inswinging delivery jagged back into the left-hander. It rattled the stumps off the ground. Seales lept in the air joyed by the beauty of a delivery.
Young Zorzi remained baffled on the pitch before he took off with his head hung in despair. However, for any pacer, this is the most desirable sight of the stumps being rattled.
Take a look at the beautiful delivery that initiated the Windies’ carnage over the Proteas batting order:
An overview of the SA vs WI 2nd Test
The West Indian side is playing the second Test match against South Africa after a firm Athanaze and rain favoured the Windies as they survived yet another Test defeat in the first match of the red ball series.
West Indies recently faced a humiliating series sweep against the English side in the longest format of the game.
After Seales struck early in the innings sending Zorzi back to the pavilion, the Windies’ attack seemed to have found some wings, as bowlers wreaked havoc in Guyana.
Jayden Seales was taken off the attack to bring in young pacer Shamar Joseph,, who was in the hunt for his first wicket. In the urge to have it, Joseph set up Markram as he kept hitting the hard length with balls shaping off from the batter’s edge.
However, he tricked the Proteas white-ball captain, as his similar ball from the good length shaped back into the right-hander when Markram decided to see the ball off. Joseph found the Timber and Markram had to walk back.
The youngster only added to his excellence and to South Africa’s despair, he sent the skipper off on the very second ball that he faced.
Joseph once again hit the length hard for the first ball, while pitched it slightly fuller in the next. Bavuma, who is believed to be one of the tiniest to have featured in the game, too could not read it out.
The ball swung into the batter and surprisingly kept low enough to disorganize the batter’s stance. It struck in front for Bavuma and he was plumb.
South Africa’s only standout batter, Stubbs who added some semblance to the team’s innings, was the final wicket to fall as he was caught off Holder in the slips. At Lunch, the Proteas were 4 wickets down for just 64 runs in their 1st innings.
