Proteas lose van Zyl to reach 104-1 at lunch
Opener Stiaan van Zyl fell to an innocuous delivery but South Africa scored freely otherwise to reach 104 for one wicket at lunch on the opening day of the first test against Bangladesh in Chittagong on Tuesday. Dean Elgar was batting on 30 with Faf du Plessis on 33 at the other end as the tourists looked determined to vindicate skipper Hashim Amla's decision to bat in the first match of the two-test series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.Van Zyl hit Mohammad Shahid for two boundaries in the first over to signal his positive intent but fell to a harmless Mahmudullah delivery, tickling a ball sliding down the leg side into the gloves of wicketkeeper Litton Das.Elgar and Du Plessis built on the 58-run opening stand to take South Africa past the 100-mark, regularly finding boundaries and rarely looking in discomfort.For the hosts, on a high after stunning the Proteas in the preceding one-day series, left-arm paceman Mustafizur Rahman made his test debut...
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