South Africa have totally annihilated/obliterated/extirpated Bangladesh in the First Test. The tourist’s openers made a mere 41 runs in the entire match – and nightmare debutant Imrul Kayes only managed 14 of them.
One of the few bright spots for the tourists was Shakib Al Hasan’s 5-for. The young slow left-armer is building a bit of a reputation for himself, having now taken 80 wickets in internationals (13 in Tests, 57 in ODIs and 10 in T20Is) and with a fairly decent average.
For the home side, this series is unlikely to be the ideal preparation for taking on the might of Australia, but at least most of them got some batting practice in.
To what avail, one might ask…
[...] the Bangladeshi batsmen continued their lacklustre form, with only two batsmen making decent scores as the side made 250. There are signs of some progress [...]