02/01Result
3rd Test, West Indies tour of South Africa at Cape Town, Jan 2-6 2015
South Africa won by 8 wkts
Player of the Match
AB de Villiers
AB de VilliersSouth Africa
02/01Result
3rd Test, West Indies tour of South Africa at Cape Town, Jan 2-6 2015
South Africa won by 8 wkts
Player of the Match
AB de Villiers
AB de VilliersSouth Africa

Match Coverage

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  • Amla enjoying captaincy learning curve

    Alviro Petersen has announced his retirement from international cricket following the series against West Indies and will take up a Kolpak deal in English county cricket

  • Almost unbeatable, and almost winless

    Stats highlights from the final day in Cape Town, when South Africa duly completed an eight-wicket win

  • WI left exposed by Chanderpaul failure

    For so long a cornerstone of West Indies batting, Shivnarine Chanderpaul's failure in this series left the tourists more exposed than usual and perhaps gave a worrying glimpse at the future

  • Victory keeps South Africa as No. 1

    South Africa duly completed an eight-wicket victory against West Indies on the fifth day, but initially at least it was not quite the stroll in the park that the scorecard suggests

  • A long day of lost potential for West Indies

    West Indies started the fourth day from a promising position before rain and South Africa's bowlers combined to trigger yet another batting implosion

Almost winless

1-47

West Indies' overseas win-loss record in Tests versus all teams other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe since Nov 2000

Almost unbeatable

17-0

South Africa's win-loss record v all teams other than Australia at Newlands since 1993. Against Australia's it's 2-4

Elgar at Newlands

74

Runs Dean Elgar had scored in six innings in Cape Town, before making an unbeaten 60 against WI

lasts long, really long

5

Number of times that Marlon Samuels has faced 150+ balls in an innings against SA, more than against any other team

Seven in a single blow

7

Runs scored by Kraigg Brathwaite to get off the mark. Since 2001, he is only 4th batsman to score 7 runs off 1 ball.

Four 40+ Stands

2

Number of times that South Africa's first four partnerships have posted 40-plus runs each against West Indies

Run drought

10

Number of innings since Alviro Petersen's last Test fifty. He had three fifties in the six innings before that

Respectable

329

West Indies' second highest score in the first innings of a Test in South Africa - highest is 408 at Port Elizabeth (2007)

Starts, but stopped

5

Number of WI batsmen who have been dismissed between 40 and 60. This has only happened 6 times in Tests

Keeper making fifty

2

Number of West Indian keepers who have made a 50-plus score in South Africa - Ridley Jacobs and Denesh Ramdin

It's Simple for Simon

4

Number of South African spinners, including Simon Harmer, who have taken 3 or more wickets in an innings on debut in the last 20 years.