17/12Result
1st Test, West Indies tour of South Africa at Centurion, Dec 17-20 2014
South Africa won by an inns & 220 runs
Player of the Match
Hashim Amla
Hashim AmlaSouth Africa
17/12Result
1st Test, West Indies tour of South Africa at Centurion, Dec 17-20 2014
South Africa won by an inns & 220 runs
Player of the Match
Hashim Amla
Hashim AmlaSouth Africa

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

HM Amla
HM Amla
208(371) 22x4 - 0x6
Control %87%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 65 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
15 6 35 23 55 21 17 36
AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers
152(235) 16x4 - 2x6
Control %92%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 28 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
3 9 10 14 49 11 41 15

Best performances - Bowlers

DW Steyn
DW Steyn
O8.2
M2
R34
W6
Eco4.08
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W
VD Philander
VD Philander
O15
M6
R29
W4
Eco1.93
RHB
OFFLEG
2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W

Match Details

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Series

West Indies tour of South Africa

Toss

West Indies , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

South AfricaHashim Amla

Series result

South Africa led the 3-match series 1-0

Match number

Test no. 2150

Season

2014/15

Hours of play (local time)

10am start, Lunch 12.30-13.10, Tea 15.10-15.30, Close 17.30

Match days

17,18,19,20 December 2014 (5-day match)

Test debut

undefinedStiaan van Zyl

Umpires

PakistanAleem DarNew ZealandBilly Bowden

TV Umpires

AustraliaPaul Reiffel

Reserve Umpire

South AfricaAdrian Holdstock

Match Referee

Sri LankaRanjan Madugalle

Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Devashish Fuloria

The teams have some time to rest, to regroup before the Boxing Day Test, but it will take some effort from West Indies now to prevent a repeat of this. Thanks for all your comments and feedback, keep an eye on the match stories and analysis.. they will be up on the site soon. I am going to sign off here.. Ciao ciao

"Didn't expect to finish this early but Dale got it started. It was a difficult pitch to bat on," says Amla, who is also the Man of the Match. "We would have bowled first too and 57 for 3 wasn't a great position to be in, but me and AB got together. Then Vernon got the match going by picking up early wickets in the first innings, then Dale ended on big note. He is a wonderful bowler and showed his class. Batting with AB is easy, I try take the one and put him on strike. It was a tough situation though. Kemar Roach got injured and it made a little easy for us. You saw the catch AB took today, stunning catch. Having him in the team really helps. Losing Quinney .. it's never nice to lose someone in the team. We have a few days to recover till the next match. Ten years (AB and Steyn) they have been fantastic."

"We got three early wickets after bowling first. But then AB and Amla batted really well," says Ramdin. "In our batting, we showed signs of batting partnerships but did not carry on at all. They are a fantastic team, it needs a lot of character and we hope we can put a fight and challenge them. The guys were getting starts but we didn't carry on, and AB and Amla took it away from us. We need to work on getting those big partnerships."

11.21 am What a royal thrashing this has been! West Indies have been bowled out twice in under four sessions. This is South Africa's second-biggest win in Test and their biggest against West Indies. It took only 15.2 overs for South Africa to wrap up the innings. Seven wickets went down and the lunch is still some 70 mins away. Dale Steyn had been absent for the first three days and he woke up just in time to remind everyone what a champion he is, taking six of the seven wickets this morning after being wicketless in the first innings.

Smooth sailing all the way for South Africa - first it was Amla and AB scoring heavily, then the debutant, Stiaan van Zyl, picking up a century, then Philander running through the West Indies side in the first innings, and now Steyn in the second. Some resistance from West Indies today would have raised their confidence a bit but this will only make them despondent. To add to that, their best player in the match, Kemar Roach, has been out due to the ankle injury.

Nick: "Steyn now has 6 innings to get 11 more wickets to become the fastest seamer to 400."

tiaancloete@yah: "What a way for Steyn and Ab to celebrate 10 years of cricket 150 for ab and 6 wickets in one spell for Steyn!!! Brilliant stuff"

Prasad Pai: "A captain scoring the century in the first innings and winning the Man of the match, and the strike spearhead bowler getting no wickets in the first innings and getting his full form back in the second. Happened in two test matches at the same time in different parts of the world today."

Siddharth: "Didn't pick up a single wicket in the first innings , but ends as the highest wicket taker in the test. That is Steyn for you ! "

42.3
W
Steyn to Cottrell, OUT, game over! Cottrell can only manage a leading edge as he looks to clip this short one to the leg side.. this lobs up for the fielder at midwicket

SS Cottrell c Abbott b Steyn 4 (10m 6b 0x4 0x6) SR: 66.66

42.2
0
Steyn to Cottrell, no run, pushes inside the line of this length delivery, the batsman is beaten again
42.1
0
Steyn to Cottrell, no run, sharp short one again! There is nowhere to run away from these.. they rise so sharply and only up to the throat height.. The batsman somehow fends it away

END OF OVER:
42 | 6 Runs | WI: 131/8

  • Sulieman Benn6 (9b)
  • Sheldon Cottrell4 (3b)
  • Morne Morkel11.1-1-43-2
  • Dale Steyn7.5-2-34-5
41.6
0
Morkel to Benn, no run, quicker and on the stumps, the batsman is hit on the pads but this was heading down the leg side
41.5
0
Morkel to Benn, no run, fires it full but this is down the leg side
41.4
4
Morkel to Benn, FOUR, whoaaa! This is not short enough but the batsman arches back and whacks it powerfully though midwicket. Fantastic shot

West Indies tour of South Africa 2014-15 News

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  • Amla does a de Villiers

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  • Rossouw and Amla tons set up 4-1 series

    A performance of all-round quality to match their huge win at the Wanderers ensured South Africa ended their season on a high with a 131-run win in Centurion in their final international before the World Cup

  • Win at World Cup all that matters - Sammy

    Darren Sammy will forgive West Indies the outcome of the already-lost series against South Africa, even if they slip to a 4-1 defeat at Centurion, as long as they reverse the result in a month's time

Can van Zyl join club?

4

Currently four South Africa batsmen have made hundreds on Test debut

Amla breaks WI duck

1

Hashim Amla scores his first Test hundred against West Indies

Amla and AB

2

This is Amla and de Villier's second 150+ stand in Test cricket

Unlucky number

57

South Africa's first three wickets fell on the same score, in the space of 15 balls

Faf's first duck

29

Faf du Plessis fell for a duck for the first time in Tests, in his 29th innings