Temba Bavuma’s ends 7-year wait for Test hundred, avoids unwanted record

Bavuma’s
second
Test
hundred
also
made
sure
that
he
avoided
an
unwanted
record
of
most
innings
between
two
hundreds
in
men’s
Test
cricket
history.

Former
New
Zealand
wicketkeeper-batter
Adam
Parore
took
92
innings
between
two
hundreds.
Bavuma
took
88
innings
between
his
two
Test
centuries.
His
last
hundred
came
against
England
in
Cape
Town
in
2016.
The
ton
against
West
Indies
is
32-year-old’s
second
overall
in
Test
cricket.

Former
South
Africa
wicketkeeper-batter
Mark
Boucher
took
73
innings
between
his
fourth
and
fifth
Test
hundred.
Ex-Pakistan
player
Moin
Khan
took
69
innings
between
his
third
and
fourth
hundred.
While
Bangladesh’s
Mahmudullah
played
68
innings
between
his
first
and
second
Test
hundred.

In
the
first
Test
of
the
ongoing
2-match
series,
the
diminutive
cricketer
became
only
the
fourth
player
in
the
history
of
Test
cricket
to
register
ducks
in
both
the
innings
of
his
debut
Test
innings
as
captain.
He
joined
Mark
Taylor,
Rashid
Latif
and
Habibul
Bashar
in
the
unwanted
list.
Bavuma
took
over
as
South
Africa
Test
captain
after
the
sacking
of
Dean
Elgar
ahead
of
the
West
Indies
series.

Temba
Bavuma
fires
in
crunch
situation

South
Africa
won
the
first
Test
by
87
runs.
They
have
also
put
themselves
in
a
solid
position
in
the
second
match.
At
the
end
of
Day
3,
they
were
leading
by
356
runs
in
the
second
innings.
After
scoring
320
in
the
first
innings
and
then
bundling
the
West
Indies
for
251,
the
Proteas
have
piled
up
287
runs
for
the
loss
of
seven
wickets
in
second
innings.

Aiden
Markaram,
who
hit
a
hundred
in
the
first
Test,
scored
96
runs
in
the
first
innings.
Bavuma
went
back
to
the
pavilion
unbeaten
on
171
on
Day
3.
The
Hundred
from
the
right-hander
is
a
crucial
one
as
it
came
at
a
time
when
the
hosts
were
reeling
at
69
for
4.
They
were
later
reduced
to
103/5
but
Bavuma
led
from
the
front
played
an
exceptional
innings
under
pressure
to
put
his
team
on
top
again.