SA spinner Piedt eyes prospect of famous win over New Zealand

Dane Piedt celebrating the wicket of New Zealand in Hamilton yesterday. PIc/AFP

Recalled South African spinner Dane Piedt is eyeing a "famous, famous win" after claiming five New Zealand wickets Wednesday to give the understrength tourists a 31-run lead at stumps on the second day of the second Test.

New Zealand's batting succumbed to a disciplined attack led by Piedt, in his first Test since 2019, to be all out for 211 in response to South Africa's 242 in Hamilton.

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A Proteas team with just 40 Test caps between them have opened up the prospect of squaring the two-match series after crashing to a 281-run loss in the first Test at Mount Maunganui. The Proteas have never lost a Test series to New Zealand, but most of their first-choice players have stayed home for a domestic Twenty20 competition.

Piedt, who took career-best figures of 5-89 on a spin-friendly Seddon Park pitch, said his unheralded team had the self-belief to win. "It's been a tough tour, but we have a great camaraderie inside that dressing room. We're quite open and honest with one another and hopefully those type of things will come through now. That's in the South African DNA and we'll fight as hard as we can now to get a famous, famous Test win."

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