Bavuma stars on debut as South Africa rout Ireland

BENONI: Temba Bavuma made a century on his One-day International debut to set up a comfortable 206-run win for South Africa in a one-off match against Ireland at Willowmoore Park on Sunday.

Bavuma hit 113 in a total of 354 for five after South Africa were sent in to bat. Ireland were bowled out for 148 in reply.

Ireland captain Will Porterfield’s gamble did not pay off as Bavuma and Quinton de Kock (82) punished the Irish bowling in an opening partnership of 159.

JP Duminy and Farhaan Behardien hit rapid half-centuries to take South Africa to a total that always looked likely to be well beyond Ireland’s reach.

Porterfield was out to Kagiso Rabada without scoring off the second ball of the Ireland innings and the visitors crumbled despite good innings of 40 by Paul Stirling and 41 by Kevin O’Brien.

Off-spinner Duminy completed a good all-round day by taking a career-best four for 16.

Bavuma, who was dropped on one when he edged Peter Chase to Kevin O’Brien at second slip, took advantage of the let-off with a composed innings. He was out 13 balls later after hitting 13 fours and a six.

On a slow pitch, South Africa struggled to increase their scoring rate in the middle overs but Duminy (52 not out) and Behardien (50) gave the innings impetus with a fifth wicket stand of 87 off 40 balls before Behardien was caught on the boundary off the last ball of the innings.

Score Board

Ireland won toss

South Africa

†Q de Kock b O’Brien 82

T Bavuma c Poynter b Young         113

*F du Plessis c Porterfield b Young  21

J P Duminy not out    52

D A Miller c Wilson b O’Brien  14

F Behardien c Porterfield b Young    50

Extras (lb 9, w 12, nb 1)      22

Total (5 wickets; 50 overs)  354

Did not bat: D Pretorius, W D Parnell, A L Phehlukwayo, K Rabada, A M Phangiso        

Fall: 1-159, 2-221, 3-227, 4-267, 5-354

Bowling: Young 10-0-81-3 (3w); Chase 10-0-86-0 (1nb, 4w); Murtagh 10-0-56-0; Dockrell 10-0-56-0 (1w); O’Brien 10-0-66-2 (3w)

Ireland

*W T S Porterfield lbw b Rabada     0

P R Stirling lbw b Phangiso    40

J Anderson c Rabada b Parnell        5

† G C Wilson c de Kock b Pretorius  3

K J O’Brien c Parnell b Duminy         41

S P Terry c Bavuma b Parnell          16

S W Poynter c Phangiso b Duminy   8

G H Dockrell b Phangiso       16

T J Murtagh not out  13

C A Young b Duminy  0

P K D Chase c Miller b Duminy         0

Extras (w 6)   6

Total (all out; 30.5 overs)    148

Fall: 1-0, 2-26, 3-41, 4-77, 5-101, 6-115, 7-122, 8-147, 9-148, 10-148

Bowling: Rabada 4-1-22-1 (3w); Parnell 6-1-36-2 (2w); Pretorius 5-0-19-1; Phehlukwayo 4-0-22-0; Phangiso 7-0-33-2; Duminy 4.5-0-16-4 (1w)

Result: South Africa won by 206 runs

ODI debuts: T Bavuma, A L Phehlukwayo and D Pretorius (South Africa)

Man of the match: T Bavuma (South Africa)

Umpires: S George and J S Wilson (West Indies). TV umpire: N J Llong (England). Match referee: B C Broad (England)