SECOND TEST
Records fall as Rabada terrifies Bangladeshi tail
All things being equal‚ SA and Bangladesh would have been busy with the second Test until about 5pm on Tuesday. But nothing about the match was equal‚ and instead hostilities ended nearly an hour before the players were to have taken tea on Sunday. With Kagiso Rabada ablaze for his match haul of 10/63‚ SA won by an innings and 254 runs to wrap up a 2-0 series win inside three days. Following on 426 runs behind after replying to SA’s 573/4 declared with 147‚ Bangladesh were dismissed for 172. It was SA’s biggest Test win. That marked the third time Rabada has taken 10 wickets — and that in only 22 Tests — and made him the leading Test wicket-taker in the world in 2017‚ and the 16th bowler to claim 100 wickets for SA. At 22‚ he is also the youngest. Were SA that good? Were Bangladesh that poor? Both. Less equivocal is that Rabada has resolved whatever has bothered him since January 4 — the day he took 6/55 against Sri Lanka at Newlands‚ his previous five-wicket haul in the 14 innings ...
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