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(Photo: Tanvin Tamim / AFP)</em></p>\r\n<h4><b>Brilliant bowling</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kagiso Rabada ran through the Bangladeshi batters with his second consecutive five-wicket haul, finishing with five wickets for 37 runs to help bowl the subcontinent side out for 159 in their first innings.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Markram enforced the follow-on and this time the left-arm finger spin duo of Keshav Maharaj, who picked up five wickets for 59 runs, and Muthusamy, who collected four for 45, skittled the Bangladeshis for 143 runs in their second dig.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2-0 series win seals South Africa’s first series win in the subcontinent in more than a decade since they beat Sri Lanka 1-0 in 2014.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“[I’m] incredibly proud and happy to get a series win here,” Markram said after the match.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We knew it was never going to be easy but we’re very fortunate that we had such special performances along the way that got us into really strong positions and we were able to apply pressure through that.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s a proud moment for all of us, and we’ll reflect back on it in years to come as a special tour.”</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2440667\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/36KL2JE-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Proteas beat Bangladesh. Kagiso Rabada\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" /> <em>South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada (centre) celebrates with Tony de Zorzi (right) after taking the wicket of Bangladesh’s Mominul Haque during the second day of the first Test match between Bangladesh and South Africa at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 22 October 2024. (Photo: Tanvin Tamim / AFP)</em></p>\r\n<h4><b>Kicking on</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The series win has bumped South Africa up to fourth on the World Test Championship (WTC) table, ahead of New Zealand and only just trailing Sri Lanka – who the Proteas face next.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the Proteas beat Sri Lanka in their two-match Test series at home, at the end of November and start of December, then whitewash Pakistan in another two-match series at the end of December and start of January, their spot in the WTC final will be guaranteed.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To still be in the mix in terms of the log for the World Test Championship is a great thing as well,” Markram said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“You want to keep your name in the hat and keep plugging away and see where you lay in four Test matches’ time.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“All you can really do is look after each day of each Test match at a time and see where it gets you.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The progression of the side has been evident since Rob Walter, with the white-ball side, and Shukri Conrad, in red-ball cricket, took over at the start of 2023.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The limited-overs side made the final of the T20 World Cup at the start of the year– the first men’s team to reach the pinnacle, while the Test side has a great opportunity to reach the final of the WTC.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s been a tough journey at times, but to slowly be progressing is a good thing for us,” Markam said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To come on a tour like this, to get a result like this is big for us as a Test team.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To make the final of a T20 World Cup is big for us as a T20 team.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If we can keep putting in good performances like that we don’t really know what the ceiling is because we haven’t managed to lift a trophy [yet].</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“But we do believe we have the players in the country to be able to do so.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“By no means will it be easy; the journey itself is very difficult but it’s worth the fight and sacrifice.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“That’s how we see it. 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