Wicketless days in Test cricket since the year 2000

#2. April 25, 2003- Jacques Rudolph and Boeta Dippenaar outclass the home team

Boeta Dippenaar and Jacques Rudolph added 429 runs at Chittagong in 2003

South Africa's tour of Bangladesh in the year 2003 saw the introduction of Jacques Rudolph to Test cricket. On his Test debut, Rudolph scored an unbeaten 222 and applied himself very well on a slow track at Chittagong.

After bowling out the hosts for 173 in their first innings, South Africa were reduced to 41-2. Boeta Dippenaar joined the debutant Rudolph and they dominated the bowling. The duo added 429 runs and were unbeaten when South Africa declared the innings at the score of 470.

The duo added 280 runs on April 25, 2003, without getting dismissed. Both Rudolph and Dippenaar were willing to spend long hours on the crease and establishing a place in the South African middle order.

The debutant Rudolph scored 222 runs of 383 balls which included 29 boundaries and 2 sixes and Dippenaar scored 177 runs off 369 balls which included 25 boundaries and 2 maximums.

Riding on the partnership, South Africa won the Test by a margin of an innings and 60 runs.