NEW DELHI: South African pacer Marco Jansen discovered himself in big bother as he grabbed consideration for all of the fallacious causes together with his massive no-ball on the second day of the second Test towards Pakistan in Cape Town on Saturday.
Jansen’s entrance-foot no-ball introduced again memories of the notorious spot-fixing incident involving former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir, who bowled a massive no-ball throughout a Test match towards England in 2010.
The incident came about in Jansen’s first over of the innings when he delivered a size ball to Babar Azam. The digicam shortly centered on Jansen, revealing his proper foot effectively past the crease, sparking issues and elevating questions on a potential spot-fixing concern.
Before that, Jansen took opposition bowlers to the cleaners with a blistering 62 off 54 balls, that includes 8 fours and three sixes.
Earlier, Ryan Rickelton scored an impressive 259 as South Africa posted a commanding first-innings whole of 615 all out.
Resuming his innings on 176, Rickelton performed a supporting position, permitting Kyle Verreynne (100) and Jansen to dominate in fast-scoring partnerships of 148 for the sixth wicket and 86 for the seventh wicket.
The left-handed opening batter reached his double century off 266 balls and was lastly seventh out, caught at mid-on going for an enormous hit. He batted for 607 minutes, dealing with 343 balls and hitting 29 fours and three sixes.
It was the joint seventh highest rating by a South African batsman in Test cricket.
