South Africa vs Bangladesh 2nd Test: The second Test match is between Bangladesh and South Africa. In this match, South Africa captain Aiden Markram won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be correct. The African team has so far scored 413 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. African batsmen performed well in the tournament. Tony DeGeorge and Tristan Stubbs scored centuries. It was with these players that South Africa managed to score a big score. South Africa lost only 5 wickets in the first innings and all these were taken by Taijul Islam.
Got 5 wickets in 3 chances against South Africa
Apart from Taijul Islam, the other bowlers also performed poorly. Taijul has taken a total of 5 wickets and 157 runs in 44 overs so far. Specially, this is the third time Taijul has taken 5 wickets in a Test match against South Africa. He has become the Bangladeshi bowler to take the most 5 wickets in Tests against Africa. He left Shakib Al Hassan behind to claim the number one crown. Shakib took 5 wickets twice in Test matches in South Africa.
Bangladesh bowlers with most 5 wickets in Tests against South Africa:
Taijul Islam – 3 times
Shakib Al Hasan – 2 times
Mohammad Rafiq – once
Witness Hussein – once
Bangladesh bowlers who took most Test wickets against South Africa:
Taijul Islam- 23 wickets
Shahadat Hussain – 15 wickets
Shakib Al Hasan – 13 wickets
Mohammad Rafiq – 12 wickets
Mehdi Hasan Miraj – 11 wickets
Scored over 200 wickets for Bangladesh
Taijul Islam is the Bangladesh bowler who has taken the most Test wickets against South Africa. In 5 Test matches against Africa, he took a total of 23 wickets. In 2014, he made his Test debut for Bangladesh. Thereafter, he played 49 Test matches for the team and took 209 wickets. He also has 31 ODI wickets to his name.
Two South African batsmen score centuries
Tony De George performed brilliantly in the second match against Bangladesh. He played a great game and scored 177 runs per innings. Apart from him, Tristan Stubbs has scored 106 runs. Apart from this, David Bedingham scored an innings of 59 runs.
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