Durban Test: Marco Jansen picks up 7/13 as Sri Lanka all out for 42 in 13.5 overs | Cricket News

Left-arm seamer Marco Jansen returned with career best figures of 7/13 as Sri Lanka were bowled out for their record low of 42 in their first innings of the Durban Test against South Africa on Thursday. In an innings that lasted only 13.5 overs, Sri Lanka’s total of 42 is the lowest any team against South Africa as the hosts took a 149-lead despite being bowled out for 191 earlier on Day 2.
In all, 16 wickets have fallen so far at Kingsmead after no play was possible on Day 1 after lunch because of rains. In what was supposed to be better conditions for batting – Mike Haysman said on air that the seam movement was 0.9 degrees and swing was 0.5 degrees – Jansen, Gerald Coetzee and Kagiso Rabada ran through the Lankan batting line-up, taking just 83 deliveries to clean up Lanka’s batting. In seaming conditions Sri Lanka batsmen’s application with the bat was found wanting as Jansen became only the second player after Hugh trumble of Australia (1904) to take a 7-fer inside seven overs of a Test Innings.
In all five Sri Lanka batsmen – Dinesh Chandimal, Kusal Mendis, Prabhath Jayasuriya, Vishwa Fernando and Asitha Fernando – were dismissed for zero as Kamindu Mendis once again top-scored with 13. When South Africa took the field, they were a bowler short with their seam bowling all-rounder Wiaan Mulder unavailable to take the field because of a fractured finger he suffered while batting.
Stats:
42 is Sri Lanka’s lowest total with their previous one being 71 against Pakan at Kandy in 1994.
83 deliveries faced Sri Lanka in their first innings is second least a team has consumed after South Africa were bowled out for 30 runs in 75 balls (12.3 overs) against England at Edgbaston in 1924.

7/13 Jansen is the third-best bowling figure a South African pacer at home and the best bowling figures a South African pacer this century.