Cricket/ Test match: Shivnarine Chanderpaul hit his eighth Test half-century in his last nine innings to help the West Indies recover from a perilous position on day one of the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town.
The left-hander played a patient innings on a slow Newlands pitch to remain unbeaten on 64 at stumps after helping the tourists to 240 for eight.
However, Dale Steyn ensured South Africa finished on top with three wickets late in the final session and was the pick of the Proteas attack, finishing with figures of four for 60. Windies captain Chris Gayle had earlier fallen four runs short of a half-century as South Africa's bowlers enjoyed the better of the morning's play.
Gayle, who won the toss, made 46 from 49 balls before falling to a soft dismissal by Andre Nel as the tourists reached 83 for three at lunch.
Steyn made the breakthrough for the hosts in the fifth over with a superb delivery to dismiss opener Daren Ganga for three.
Gayle and new batsman Runako Morton took the score along to 71 before the latter fell to Jacques Kallis for 23, miscuing a straight drive to give Makhaya Ntini a simple catch at a deep mid-off. Gayle, who had been struggling with a hamstring injury, added seven runs before he departed in the 21st over.
The left-hander was undone by a lack of footwork after a wicked delivery from Nel, and Neil McKenzie, recalled to the side at the expense of Herschelle Gibbs, took a fine diving catch at gully.
With South Africa seemingly on top, Marlon Samuels and Chanderpaul dug in after lunch to add 76 runs in a patient second session on their way to 160 for three at tea. South Africa eventually broke the 106-run fourth-wicket partnership in the eighth over after the interval. Samuels reached his ninth half-century before he edged a fine delivery from Ntini while on 51 and Boucher took a regulation catch.
Ntini struck again in his next over to remove Dwayne Bravo, who departed without troubling the scorers to leave the West Indies on 185 for five.
Chanderpaul remained typically stubborn, however, and took 184 balls for his 44th Test 50. However, with nine overs left, Steyn swung the momentum back towards South Africa with two wickets in two deliveries with the new ball.
First he had Denesh Ramdin trapped lbw with a outswinging yorker while moments later Rawl Lewis failed to deal with a near-identical delivery and saw his off-stump sent flying. Steyn tried the same ball for his hat-trick delivery but Jerome Taylor guessed correctly and dug it out.
Taylor added eight runs before he became Steyn's fourth wicket.Chanderpaul and Daren Powell (nought) negotiated a nervous final few overs to see the West Indies to the close without further loss.
