Thirty-eight-year-old Pakistani spinner Asif Afridi became the oldest bowler to claim a five-wicket haul on Test debut Wednesday, before South Africa’s lower-order batters staged a resilient fightback to frustrate the hosts in the second Test.

The 38-year-old Afridi snared 5-61, but Senuran Muthusamy and Keshav Maharaj both got reprieves to lift South Africa to 285-8 at lunch on Day 3.

South Africa was trailing by 98 runs when it lost Marco Jansen, then Muthusamy and Maharaj combined to cut the first-innings deficit to 48 with an aggressive, unbeaten half-century stand.

Muthusamy was unbeaten on 48 off 84 balls and escaped a chance when Salman Ali Agha couldn’t hold onto a top-edge while running from the slips.

Maharaj also survived a couple of dropped catches and a stumping opportunit

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