POBNEWS24,Dhaka, Sep 3, 2022 : Playing on their own soil. Above him in the XI are two pace superstars Stuart Broad and James Anderson. There are Matthew Potts and Ben Stokes. But England succumbed to South Africa’s formidable pace attack.
Proteas won the Lord’s Test by an innings and 12 runs in Keshav Maharaj’s spin with the speed of Anrich Norte, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Marco Johnsen.
Kagiso Rabada’s five-wicket haul and Nortie-Johnson’s bowling saw England bundle out for just 165 in the first innings. Ollie Pope’s 73 runs but no one could go to the thirty! Captain Ben Stokes scored the second highest 20 runs. In response, South Africa were all out for 326 runs in the first innings. The highest individual run for the visitors is 73. Opener Sarel Erwia did. Besides, Marco Johnson scored 48 runs, captain Dean Elgar scored 47 runs and Keshav Maharaj scored 41 runs.
England started the second innings with the fear of losing the innings from 161 runs behind. After breaking the opening pair for 20 runs, they kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Opener Alex Lees and pacer Stuart Broad scored the maximum 35 runs! Captain Ben Stokes could not score more than 20 runs this time. Like the first innings with the ball in hand, Anrich Nortie took 3 wickets this time. That too with a gap of five runs. All three of his wickets were basically collapses in the English batting lineup.
Since 2006, England has not seen any foreign pace attack with great pace. England’s second innings ended at 149 runs. They could not have gone that far, if Stokes and Broad had not made a partnership of 55 runs off 45 balls. Kagiso Rabada, Marco Johnson and Keshav Maharaj took 2 wickets each. Kagiso Rabada became the man of the match with 7 wickets in two innings. With this victory, South Africa took a 1-0 lead in the 3-match series.
