Bangla lose first Test after Adams strikes again

Lft-arm spinner Paul Adams took 10 wickets in a Test for the first time as South Africa wrapped up an emphatic innings and 60 run victory in the first Test against Bangladesh on Sunday. Resuming on 185/5 overnight in their second innings, still trailing by 112 runs, Bangladesh were dismissed for 237 early on day four to give South Africa a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series. Debutant Charl Willoughby began the slide with his first wicket in Test cricket, youngster Mohammed Ashraful (28) driving straight to mid-off after taking 10 runs from the over.

Adams then struck twice in quick succession, Akram Khan (16) undoing a good start when he pulled a long hop down Boeta Dippenaar’s throat at fine leg and Mushrafe Mortaza was well caught at slip by Shaun Pollock for a duck when he edged a delivery which turned sharply away from him. Adams finished with 5/69 to go with his first innings 5/37.

	SCOREBOARD
BANGLADESH (1ST INNINGS): 173 SOUTH AFRICA (1ST INNINGS): 470-2 declared BANGLADESH (2ND INNINGS): (overnight 185/5) Javed Omar c Boucher b Ntini 71, Mehrab Hossain lbw Pollock 5, Habibul Bashar c Boucher b Pollock 75, Mohammad Ashraful c Smith b Willoughby 28, Alok Kapali c Boucher b Adams 7, Mohammad Salim lbw Adams 0, Akram Khan c Dippenaar b Adams 16, Khaled Mahmud st Boucher b Smith 1, Mashrafe Mortaza c Pollock b Adams 0, Tapash Baisya not out 0, Enamul Haque c and b Adams 11, Extras: (b-5, lb-10, nb-2, w-6) 23; Total: 237 Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-138, 3-173, 4-183, 5-185, 6-213, 7-224, 8-224, 9-224 Bowling: Pollock 13-9-12-2, Willoughby 18-6-47-1, Ntini 16-4-37-1, Dawson 12-4-48-0, Adams 18.4-5-69-5, Smith 5-2-9-1