{"id":292570,"date":"2023-03-01T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/1st-test-anrich-nortje-bags-fifer-as-south-africa-take-big-lead-against-west-indies-cricket-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:31:18","slug":"1st-test-anrich-nortje-bags-fifer-as-south-africa-take-big-lead-against-west-indies-cricket-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/1st-test-anrich-nortje-bags-fifer-as-south-africa-take-big-lead-against-west-indies-cricket-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Test: Anrich Nortje bags fifer as South Africa take big lead against West Indies | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>PRETORIA: Fast bowler <!-- -->Anrich Nortje<!-- --> ripped through the West Indies middle order to take 5-36 as South Africa opened up a 179 run lead with six second innings wickets remaining at the close of the second day of the see-saw first Test at Centurion Park on Wednesday.<br \/>South Africa limped to 49 for four in their second innings having been all out for 342 in their first early on the second morning.<br \/>They dismissed West Indies for 212 in reply as seamer Gerald Coetzee also claimed figures of 2-45 on debut, with 24 wickets already lost in six sessions in the match.<br \/>Dean Elgar<!-- --> (1), debutant Tony de Zorzi (0), Keegan Petersen (7) and <!-- -->Temba Bavuma<!-- --> (0), with a pair of ducks, are all already dismissed for the home side in their second innings.<br \/>Bavuma is the fourth player to get a pair on their Test debut after Mark Taylor, Rashid Latif and Habibul Bashar.<br \/>First innings centurion <!-- -->Aiden Markram<!-- --> (35 not out) and Heinrich Klaasen (0 not out) will resume on the third morning, hoping to build on what is already a sizeable advantage.<br \/>Seamer Alzarri Joseph (2-17) has impressed again after he claimed a maiden Test five-wicket haul in South Africa&#8217;s first innings with 5-81.<br \/>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the quickest wicket, it&#8217;s going a little up and down, but we are just sticking to our plans,&#8221; Nortje said. &#8220;I need to adjust a little now and then. It&#8217;s just about finding that rhythm.<br \/>&#8220;We need some sort of partnership to take the lead to 250-plus. Definitely that&#8217;s very competitive. The more we can get the better, but I would think 250-plus is a very good score.&#8221;<br \/>West Indies made a strong start to their first innings but lost their final seven wickets for 43 runs as Nortje proved chief destroyer.<br \/>Kagiso Rabada (2-44) claimed the first wicket with a beautiful delivery that angled into captain Kraigg Brathwaite (11) and then seamed away off the pitch and hit the top of off-stump.<br \/>Tagenarine Chanderpaul (22), son of West Indies great Shivnarine, was caught by Senuran Muthusamy at gully to give Coetzee his first Test wicket.<\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component QbQNS undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AI Test.\" msid=\"98342476\" width=\"600\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/42706777.gif\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/imgsize-23456,msid-98342476,width-600,resizemode-4\/98342476.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The visitors showed some dogged determination in the face of hostile home bowling and Blackwood reached 37 before an inside edge off Nortje was caught by diving wicketkeeper Klaasen.<br \/>They were still sitting relatively comfortably on 169 for three, but when innings top scorer Raymon Reifer (62) was caught by Klaasen off Marco Jansen, it precipitated a collapse.<\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadFBEvents = function() {\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? 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