Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
AB de Villiers	c †Browne b Best	114	173	251	13	1	65.89
Graeme Smith (c)	c Washington b Powell	126	173	256	19	0	72.83
Boeta Dippenaar	run out (Deonarine/Best/†Browne)	5	4	19	0	0	125.00
Jacques Kallis	c Washington b Powell	147	287	394	14	1	51.21
Herschelle Gibbs	c Deonarine b Gayle	23	52	58	3	0	44.23
Ashwell Prince	c †Browne b Bravo	131	254	321	13	1	51.57
Mark Boucher †	not out	11	24	31	0	0	45.83
Shaun Pollock	not out	13	18	27	1	0	72.22
Extras	(b 4, lb 1, nb 8, w 5)	18
Total	163 Ov (RR: 3.60, 680 Mins)	588/6d
Did not bat Monde Zondeki, Makhaya Ntini, Nicky Boje
Fall of wickets 1-245 (AB de Villiers, 56.5 ov), 2-245 (Graeme Smith, 57.2 ov), 3-251 (Boeta Dippenaar, 60.1 ov), 4-295 (Herschelle Gibbs, 76.3 ov), 5-562 (Jacques Kallis, 155.4 ov), 6-563 (Ashwell Prince, 156.1 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Daren Powell	32	3	137	2	4.28	124	3	1
57.2 to GC Smith, . 245/2 155.4 to JH Kallis, . 562/5
Tino Best	26	4	116	1	4.46	110	0	5
56.5 to AB de Villiers, . 245/1
Dwight Washington	22	3	73	0	3.31	93	0	0
Dwayne Bravo	27	4	97	1	3.59	108	2	2
156.1 to AG Prince, . 563/6
Chris Gayle	31	11	65	1	2.09	147	0	0
76.3 to HH Gibbs, . 295/4
Wavell Hinds	6	0	24	0	4.00	26	0	0
Narsingh Deonarine	18	1	69	0	3.83	66	0	0
Ramnaresh Sarwan	1	0	2	0	2.00	4	0	0

West Indies 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Chris Gayle	c Smith b Zondeki	317	483	630	37	3	65.63
Wavell Hinds	c & b Ntini	0	1	6	0	0	0.00
Ramnaresh Sarwan	c Prince b Zondeki	127	279	388	14	2	45.51
Brian Lara	c †Boucher b Zondeki	4	29	38	1	0	13.79
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (c)	run out (Pollock)	127	287	403	13	0	44.25
Narsingh Deonarine	c †Boucher b Smith	4	44	43	0	0	9.09
Dwayne Bravo	c Prince b Boucher	107	235	272	13	0	45.53
Courtney Browne †	lbw b Smith	0	6	6	0	0	0.00
Daren Powell	b de Villiers	12	39	30	1	0	30.76
Tino Best	c Gibbs b de Villiers	5	7	12	1	0	71.42
Dwight Washington	not out	7	25	48	1	0	28.00
Extras	(b 2, lb 9, nb 23, w 3)	37
Total	235.2 Ov (RR: 3.17, 939 Mins)	747
Fall of wickets 1-14 (Wavell Hinds, 1.1 ov), 2-345 (Ramnaresh Sarwan, 94.1 ov), 3-363 (Brian Lara, 102.2 ov), 4-512 (Chris Gayle, 152.2 ov), 5-535 (Narsingh Deonarine, 164.4 ov), 6-665 (Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 205.3 ov), 7-665 (Courtney Browne, 206.6 ov), 8-700 (Daren Powell, 219.6 ov), 9-712 (Tino Best, 223.2 ov), 10-747 (Dwayne Bravo, 235.2 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Shaun Pollock	34	5	111	0	3.26	159	0	13
Makhaya Ntini	33	3	106	1	3.21	150	1	2
1.1 to WW Hinds, . 14/1
Monde Zondeki	25	4	120	3	4.80	100	1	5
94.1 to RR Sarwan, . 345/2 102.2 to BC Lara, . 363/3 152.2 to CH Gayle, . 512/4
Jacques Kallis	36	6	96	0	2.66	160	0	0
Nicky Boje	30	6	76	0	2.53	133	0	0
Graeme Smith	43	3	145	2	3.37	183	1	2
164.4 to N Deonarine, . 535/5 206.6 to CO Browne, . 665/7
AB de Villiers	21	6	49	2	2.33	98	0	0
219.6 to DBL Powell, . 700/8 223.2 to TL Best, . 712/9
Ashwell Prince	9	1	22	0	2.44	36	0	0
Boeta Dippenaar	2	1	1	0	0.50	11	0	0
Mark Boucher	1.2	0	6	1	4.50	6	0	1
235.2 to DJ Bravo, . 747/10
Herschelle Gibbs	1	0	4	0	4.00	5	0	0

South Africa 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Graeme Smith (c)	not out	50	87	137	7	0	57.47
AB de Villiers	c Washington b Best	12	4	5	3	0	300.00
Boeta Dippenaar	not out	56	101	132	7	2	55.44
Extras	(nb 6, w 3)	9
Total	31 Ov (RR: 4.09, 137 Mins)	127/1
Did not bat Jacques Kallis, Herschelle Gibbs, Ashwell Prince, Mark Boucher †, Nicky Boje, Monde Zondeki, Makhaya Ntini, Shaun Pollock
Fall of wickets 1-14 (AB de Villiers, 0.4 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Tino Best	5	0	32	1	6.40	20	1	3
0.4 to AB de Villiers, . 14/1
Daren Powell	6	2	15	0	2.50	30	0	0
Dwight Washington	7	1	20	0	2.85	31	0	2
Dwayne Bravo	5	0	24	0	4.80	20	0	0
Wavell Hinds	3	1	10	0	3.33	16	0	1
Narsingh Deonarine	3	1	20	0	6.66	12	0	0
Ramnaresh Sarwan	1	0	3	0	3.00	4	0	0
Chris Gayle	1	0	3	0	3.00	3	0	0

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Close of Play

Fri, 29 Apr

day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 214/0 (AB de Villiers 103*, Graeme Smith 106*, 48.5 ov)

Sat, 30 Apr

day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 525/4 (Jacques Kallis 127*, Ashwell Prince 114*, 147 ov)

Sun, 01 May

day 3 - West Indies 1st innings 299/1 (Chris Gayle 184*, Ramnaresh Sarwan 103*, 80 ov)

Mon, 02 May

day 4 - West Indies 1st innings 565/5 (Shivnarine Chanderpaul 82*, Dwayne Bravo 10*, 178 ov)

Tue, 03 May

day 5 - South Africa 2nd innings 127/1 (31 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

General

Day 1

South Africa 1st innings

South Africa 50 in 48 minutes off 61 balls, 8x4

AB de Villiers 50 in 91 minutes off 51 balls, 8x4

South Africa 100 in 97 minutes off 127 balls, 16x4

100 run partnership (de Villiers 52, Smith 47)

Players leave the field at 11:50 for rain, 22.1 overs, South Africa 114/0

Early lunch taken during the rain starting at 11:50

10 minutes lost to rain after lunch

Players off the field again at 12:46, 23.1 overs, South Africa 119/0

11 minutes lost for the second rain break

GC Smith 50 in 112 minutes off 79 balls, 9x4

Rain takes the players off for a third time at 13:08

South Africa 1st innings: 1x5 ball over (23rd over bowled by Best,called by Taufel)

2 hours 17 minutes lost to the rain break

South Africa 150 in 147 minutes off 197 balls, 22x4

150 partnership (de Villiers 76, Smith 70)

South Africa 200 in 198 minutes off 275 balls, 27x4, 1x6

200 partnership (de Villiers 98, Smith 98)

GC Smith 100 in 199 minutes off 141 balls, 16x4 (third in three Tests)

AB de Villiers 100 in 205 minutes off 140 balls, 12x4, 1x6

Players are taken off the field at 17:16 once again for rain

Day 2

Play delayed by 30 minutes after overnight rain

New Ball taken after 98 overs

JH Kallis 50 in 191 minutes off 135 balls, 5x4, 1x6

AG Prince 50 in 120 minutes off 108 balls, 6x4, 1x6

South Africa 400 off 672 balls, 41x4, 3x6

Kallis 100 in 284 minutes off 212 balls, 11x4, 1x6

22nd 100 for Kallis, highest for South Africa beating 21 by G Kirsten

AG Prince 100 in 246 minutes off 200 balls, 11x4, 1x6

Kallis becomes South Africa's highest Test scorer

Day 3

5th wicket record partnership for South Africa between Kallis and Prince

Boucher becomes the 9th South African to get to 3,000 runs, and the 3rd world wicket keeper with 3,000 runs and 300 dismissals

South Africa became the 11th team to register four hundreds in an innings

West Indies 1st innings

CH Gayle 50 in 50 minutes 34 balls, 9x4, 1x6

West Indies 100 in 84 minutes off 107 balls, 12x4, 3x6

CH Gayle 100 in 144 minutes off 96 balls, 15x4, 3x6

CH Gayle 150 in 207 minutes off 149 balls, 24x4, 3x6

record 2nd wicket partnership for the ground

RR Sarwan 100 in 311 minutes off 221 balls, 10x4, 4x6

Highest 2nd wicket partnership by any team against South Africa

Day 4

Day 5

New ball taken after 178 overs, West Indies 565/5

S Chanderpaul 100 in 349 minutes off 242 balls, 10x4

8 100's in the same test a new record for Test cricket

de Villiers takes the wicket keeping duties from Boucher with West Indies 737/9 after 232 overs

DJJ Bravo 100 in 243 minutes off 209 minutes, 12x4

News from the RSA camp is that Boje has been released from the One-Day squad to return home for treatment to his breathing problems

HH Dippenaar 50 in 138 minutes off 94 balls, 6x4, 2x6

GC Smith 50 in 154 minutes off 87 minutes, 7x4

Match Details

GroundAntigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua

TossSouth Africa, elected to bat first

Series

South Africa tour of West Indies

Season2005

Player Of The Match

Chris Gayle

Player Of The Series

Graeme Smith

Series resultSouth Africa won the 4-match series 2-0

Match numberTest no. 1750

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