West Indies vs South Africa: Keshav Maharaj’s hat-trick propels visitors to series win over Windies

A second ever, Test hat-trick by a South African taken by Keshav Maharaj, helped the Proteas seal a 2-0 series sweep when they beat the West Indies by 158 runs with a day and session to spare at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground on Monday.

Left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj took a hat trick in his 5/36 to lead South Africa to a 158-run win over West Indies in the second test and a 2-0 series sweep on Monday. 7 Keshav Maharaj secured his 7th career Test 5-fer How good was he with the ball?#WIvSA #ThatsOurGame pic.twitter.com/zPfCoZ8eGm Maharaj became just the second South African and first in more than 60 years to take a test hat trick when he dismissed Kieran Powell, Jason Holder and Joshua Da Silva in the second-to-last over before lunch on the fourth day. The only previous South African to take a hat trick in tests was Geoff Griffin against England at Lord's in 1960.