The second test match between West Indies and South Africa gets under way at St Lucia on Friday and after dishing out a hiding to their hosts at this venue last week the Proteas are odds on favourites.
This is final match of test series and will be followed by five T20's in Grenada.
Let's begin with a recap of what happened in the first test which the Proteas won by an innings and 63 runs inside 3 days.
West Indies won the toss and opted to bat first last week and their innings lasted just 40.5 overs as they were bowled out for just 91. Jason Holder topped scored
with 20, 3 players made just 1 run and there was 1 duck and the wickets went to Ngidi (5) followed by Nortje (4) and Rabada (1).
In reply Dean Elgar went without scoring but Markram made 60, van der Dussen 46 and Quinton de Kock finished unbeaten on 141 in a total of 322 and QdK earned the Man of the Match award. Holder (4 wickets) and Seales (3) were the most successful of the WI bowlers.
An innings win looked likely and so it proved with Rabada taking 5 wickets, Nortje 3 and Maharaj 2 as WI were bowled out for 162 with Roston Chase top scoring with 62 and no other batsmen got past 14.
This was how the teams lined up for the first test.
West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite (c), Shai Hope, Kyle Mayers, Jermaine Blackwood, Roston Chase, Joshua Da Silva (wk), Jason Holder, Rahkeem Cornwall, Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales, Kieran Powell, Nkrumah Bonner
South Africa: Dean Elgar (c), Aiden Markram, Keegan Petersen, Rassie van der Dussen, Kyle Verreynne, Quinton de Kock (wk), Keshav Maharaj, Wiaan Mulder, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje
Head to Head
Since 1992 the teams have met 29 times in test matches, South Africa have won 19 whilst 7 have been drawn and 3 have been won by West Indies.
The Venue Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia
Overall 8 test matches have been staged here (2003-2019) and West Indies have won 1, lost 3 and 4 have been drawn,
Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia Weather Forecast
The Betting
West Indies are currently trading at around 26/10 to win the second test with the draw a 4/1 chance and South Africa can be backed at around 0.72/1
As far as the top 1st innings bat markets are concerned Dean Elgar is 3.25/1 for South Africa with Markram the same price and Quinton de Kock is 7/2. Kraigg Brathwaite is 33/10 to top score for Windies in their first knock.
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
The Verdict
That was pretty embarrassing from West Indies in the first test and given we have the same venue for this match its hard to see the home side coping with Rabada, Ngidi and Nortje.
I'm looking to the player runs markets and van der Dussen to score a half century in the first innings is my headline pick at a nice price.
Bets: 1st innings Player to score 50 van der Dussen ?(yes) at 9/4
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
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