Windies ‘A’ tour of South Africa: Windies bowlers contain South Africa on day 1

Batsmen Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Zachary McCaskie will return to the crease tomorrow to resume first innings of the first of three four-day Test matches, after the bowlers toiled against South Africa ‘A’ on day 1.
Hosts South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first, and several small partnerships got them to a total of 287-9 declared. Keegan Petersen led the batting charge with a top score of 59 from 91 balls, inclusive of 9 boundaries.
Also crossing the half century mark was Tony de Zorzi and Clyde Fortuin, with 55 from 103 balls and 53 from 70 balls respectively.

David Bedingham missed out on the half-century mark, falling to Guyanese Kevin Sinclair’s spin for 47 runs off 50 deliveries. And though the wickets were slow to come, Jayden Seales led the charge with 3-23 from 15.5 overs, and Akeem Jordan picked up 3 wickets for 61 runs in 18 overs. Sinclair had two scalps for 64 runs from 18 overs, and Shermon Lewis had the 9th wicket for 59 from 10 overs.
After the declaration, there were still a few overs left in the day, and Chanderpaul and McCaskie utilized those to get to 46 without loss before stumps.
In a pacy innings thus far, Chanderpaul has 27 runs off 28 balls, including 6 fours, while McCaskie hit 17 from 28 balls, with 3 boundaries.
Day 2 of the 4-day Test will resume at 4:00hrs today.