PERTH, Dec 9: South Africa scored their first win on tour with an eight-wicket hammering of a Western Australian Chairman’s XI Friday but celebrations were tempered by an injury to their lone spinner.

Left-arm spinner Nicky Boje cut his right hand early in the one-day game and did not return to the field as the tourists reached the victory total of 193 in 35 overs.

Team officials, already grappling with injuries to captain Graeme Smith and all-rounder Jacques Kallis, said Boje would miss the three-day tour match starting on Sunday but would be fit for the first Test.

South Africa’s problems were highlighted when fitness trainer Adrian Le Roux was brought on to field for the tourists as they restricted the local side for 192 for 9 in the allotted 46 overs.

Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Rudolph then notched up an unbeaten 91 and 58 respectively to carry the Proteas to victory. Openers Graeme Smith with 24 and A.B. de Villiers who made 18 were the only South African wickets to fall.

Kallis did not play after damaging tendons in his left elbow and has not practised since arriving in Australia.

Meanwhile bowler Charl Langeveldt, who missed South Africa’s second innings during this week’s drubbing by Western Australia with a chest infection, managed just eight overs before leaving the field.

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