It’s not every day that you see sides getting bundled out for 42 runs. In fact, in nearly 40 years of playing Test cricket, this turned out to be Sri Lanka’s lowest ever Test total. We’re talking about the first game in the 2024 Sri Lanka tour of South Africa, where the hosts were all out for 191 in their 1st innings, only to gain a massive lead by bowling out SL for 42!
Plenty of records went tumbling apart from this being Sri Lanka’s lowest ever Test total. It was also the lowest Test total against South Africa and the lowest 1st innings total at Durban. In the bowling effort, Marco Jansen was the destructor-in-chief as he bagged a career-best 7/13 spell in just 6.5 overs.
Marco Jansen breaks records with 7/13
It was the third best bowling figures by a South African pacer in home Tests, and also the best since the turn of the century. Additionally, it’s the second best Test figures for SA vs SL in Tests, after Keshav Maharaj picked up 9/129 in 2018 at Colombo. What a start to Day 2 of the Test match it was at Durban, with wickets falling every few minutes.
This is the now the best test figures for Marco Jansen!!!#SAvSL #MarcoJansen #SriLanka #SouthAfrica pic.twitter.com/Z7vqcoqmys
— 🏏CricketFeed (@CricketFeedIN) November 28, 2024
Marco Jansen is some talent man.
There are cricket assperts high on fish oil who mock him for a T20 match choked by his team’s best hitters while ignoring the high ceiling he has across formats.
Some even called him worse than Shadab as an AR.— Abdullah (@abdullahhammad4) November 28, 2024
What that did is that it gave South Africa a 1st innings lead of 149 runs, which is also their highest in sub-200 totals in Test cricket. It’s the second shortest time (in terms of balls) taken to bowl out a side – 13.5. This is only after 12.3 overs that South African took to be bowled out for 30 runs against England in 1924.
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Age old records have gone tumbling today in Kingsmead, Durban, and Marco Jansen will be the happiest bowler of the lot. He bowled with the new-ball and finished off the Sri Lankan effort within his first spell itself. He got a 5-fer after picking 2 wickets in his 6th over, and then replicated the effort with 2 more wickets in his 7th over.
Marco Jansen produces these unplayable spells some days (not the case today – he bowls even better than this), bats with all the confidence in the world, and takes some absolute screamers at gully. An all-format all-skilled superstar in the making. #SAvSL
— Rohit Sankar (@imRohit_SN) November 28, 2024
Siraj watching Jansen bowling out SL for a low score🫡 pic.twitter.com/OPzKw0x8dv
— Dinda Academy (@academy_dinda) November 28, 2024
After the confidence from that 1st innings bowling effort, the batters came out and put up a 50-run partnership for the opening standing, taking the lead past 200 and taking the game faaaar, far away from the visiting side. It’s a great start to the series for Jansen and we won’t be surprised if he keeps taking more during this bilateral competition.
Marco Jansen 7/13 🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/vqAVkPPURe
— Werner (@Werries_) November 28, 2024
MARCO JANSEN: 6.5-1-13-7 vs SRI LANKA IN THE FIRST INNINGS 🙇 pic.twitter.com/Arb3R5aBhi
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 28, 2024
Prior to this, Jansen had only one 5-fer in Test cricket, with his 5/35 coming against England in 2022. Still only 24 years old, there’s a bright future up ahead of this guy in the sport of cricket. For similar cricketing updates from around the world, remember to always stay tuned to ReadScoops.com.
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