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| December 7, 2005 | Wednesday | Ziqa’ad 4, 1426 |
Proteas struggling for survival in tour opener
PERTH, Dec 6: South Africa were struggling to avoid a heavy defeat in their opening tour match in Australia after a late batting collapse on Tuesday. The Proteas, preparing for their three-Test series against Australia starting next week, lost eight wickets for the addition of just 88 runs in the final session to slump to 25 for two in their second innings against Western Australia.
The visitors were ordered to follow on after collapsing to be all out for 179 in the first innings in reply to the home team’s 391-8 at the WACA Ground.
They lost A.B. de Villiers and Herschelle Gibbs cheaply to end the second of three days still 187 runs behind a Western Australia team that is yet to win a match in this season’s domestic state championship.
Western Australia declared their first innings early after rain washed out most of the morning session.
Medium-pacer Shawn Gillies (3-41) capped his first-class debut by ripping through the South African top order before Beau Casson (4-21) and Ben Edmondson (3-48) combined to polish off the tail.
South Africa had made a promising start when De Villiers and Jacques Rudolph put on 71 for the first wicket when the wheels suddenly fell off.
Gillies made the breakthrough in his first over when he bowled De Villiers for 27 then removed Rudolph four balls later, caught at point for 43.
He also had Ashwell Prince caught on the boundary for four and when Edmondson bowled Gibbs for 25 the South Africans were already in trouble at 116-4 at tea.
Things went from bad to worse for the visitors in the final session as Edmondson and Casson cleaned up the last six wickets for 55 runs then struck twice more in the second innings before the close of play.
The South Africans are due to play a one-day match against an invitational side on Friday and another three-day game against Western Australia next week before the first Test starts at the WACA on Dec 16.
SCOREBOARD
WESTERN AUSTRALIA (1st Innings, overnight 306-5)
J.L. Langer b Langeveldt 1
C.J.L. Rogers c Langeveldt b Nel 22
C.J. Heron c Boucher b Pollock 13
M.J. North c Boucher b Langeveldt 71
A.C. Voges c sub (G. Kruger) b Boje 101
D.C. Bandy c Prince b Langeveldt 64
W.S. Gillies c Gibbs b Ntini 20
L. Ronchi b Langeveldt 16
B. Casson not out 22
S.J. Magoffin not out 24
EXTRAS (B-4, LB-6, W-1, NB-6) 17
TOTAL (for eight wkts decl, 110 overs) 391
FALL OF WKTS: 1-21, 2-51, 3-67, 4-213, 5-253, 6-323, 7-324, 8-343.
DID NOT BAT: B.M. Edmondson.
BOWLING: Pollock 22-9-51-1; Ntini 22-5-66-1; Nel 22-3-94-1; Langeveldt 24-3-104-4 (6nb, 1w); Boje 12-2-36-1; Kemp 8-1-30-0.
SOUTH AFRICA (1st Innings:
A.B. de Villiers b Gillies 27
J.A. Rudolph c Bandy b Gillies 43
H.H. Gibbs b Edmondson 25
A.G. Prince c Magoffin b Gillies 4
J.M. Kemp b Edmondson 13
M.V. Boucher c Bandy b Edmondson 8
S.M. Pollock c Voges b Casson 4
N. Boje not out 26
M. Ntini lbw b Casson 0
A. Nel c Langer b Casson 0
C.K. Langeveldt c and b Casson 14
EXTRAS (B-8, LB-6, W-1) 15
TOTAL (all out, 53.1 overs) 179
FALL OF WKTS: 1-71, 2-72 3-84, 4-112, 5-124, 6-124, 7-136, 8-136, 9-146.
BOWLING: Magoffin 8-2-30-0; Edmondson 12-1-48-3; Bandy 12-4-25-0; Gillies 11-2-41-3 (1w); Casson 10.1-4-21-4.
SOUTH AFRICA (2nd Innings, following-on):
A.B. de Villiers c Ronchi b Edmondson 7
J.A. Rudolph not out 4
H.H. Gibbs c Ronchi b Magoffin 13
A.G. Prince not out 1
EXTRAS 0
TOTAL (for two wkts, 12 overs) 25
FALL OF WKTS: 1-7, 2-23.
BOWLING (to-date): Magoffin 6-4-6-1; Edmondson 4-0-16-1; Casson 2-0-3-0.—Agencies
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