South Africa were 131/3 in their second innings at lunch on the final day of the second Test on Tuesday, after trailing West Indies by three runs.
The Test headed for a dull draw after Windies made 546, replying to the South Africans’ first innings total of 543/6 declared. The Proteas, resuming from their overnight total of 23/0, lost three wickets that of captain Graeme Smith, Alviro Petersen and Hashim Amla.
On Monday, Morne Morkel finished with four wickets for 116 runs from 34.1 overs, but Windies managed to take a slender lead.
Morkel had removed the first two Windies wickets, and returned to mop-up the tail, when he removed Ravi Rampaul caught behind to give Mark Boucher his 500th victim in Tests. — AFP
Scores (at lunch): South Africa 543/6 decl & 131/3 (Smith 46, Petersen 39, Amla 41; Shillingford 2/48) vs West Indies 546 in 181.1 overs (Bravo 53, Morkel 4/116, Harris 2/165)