South Africa ran through the West In­dies’ low­er or­der on Sat­ur­day’s rain-short­ened day to give them­selves a slim chance of push­ing for vic­to­ry on Sun­day’s fi­nal day of the first Test here at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

With on­ly two hours of play pos­si­ble to­day af­ter the rain pre­vent­ed any play in the morn­ing ses­sion, the vis­i­tors bowled out the West In­dies for 233 af­ter they re­sumed on 145-4.

Fol­low­ing an in­spec­tion by the um­pires, play fi­nal­ly got un­der­way at 3:30 p.m.

Overnight bats­men Ja­son Hold­er and Kavem Hodge were dis­ci­plined in their ap­proach, with the pair adding 28 to the to­tal when Hold­er drove down the wrong line of a de­liv­ery from off-spin­ner Aiden Markram and lost his off stump to be out for 36,

His dis­missal opened the flood­gates as the home side lost their last five wick­ets for 60 runs.

Joshua Da Sil­va made just one run be­fore dri­ving Ke­shav Ma­haraj straight to Tony de Zorzi at mid on and 14 runs lat­er Hodge, who made 25, edged Kag­iso Raba­da to first slip where David Be­d­ing­ham took an easy catch, as the West In­dies slumped to 188-7.

Gu­dakesh Motie didn’t trou­ble the score, be­com­ing the sec­ond of Raba­da’s three wick­ets as the home side col­lapsed to 192-8.

It took an un­beat­en cameo of 35 from Jomel War­ri­can to get the West In­dies up to their even­tu­al to­tal, with the tailen­der blast­ing three fours and two six­es from just 32 balls.

Ma­haraj was the pick of South Africa’s bowlers with 4-76, while Raba­da took 3-56.

Open­ers de Zorzi and Markram then wast­ed lit­tle time gath­er­ing runs, as they scored at six runs an over as South Africa end­ed the day on 30 with­out loss from five overs.

CMC

Scores:

SOUTH AFRICA 357 and 30-0 (Tony de Zorzi 14 not out).

WEST IN­DIES 233 (Kea­cy Car­ty 42, Mikyle Louis 35, Kraigg Brath­waite 35, Ja­son Hold­er 36, Jomel War­ri­can 35 not out, Kavem Hodge 25; K Ma­haraj 4-76, Kag­iso Raba­da 3-56).