Proteas crush Windies to seal series success, anxiously wait on Maharaj's serious injury

At the Wanderers

The West Indies made sure they didn't rain on Temba Bavuma's century parade when they were bundled out for 106 to lose the second Test against South Africa by 284 runs on Saturday.

The West Indies had done well to bowl South Africa out for 321 after 36 minutes of play, but they proceed to spit the batting dummy and allowed the hosts to run amok in the chase of a series-clinching win.

SA's rather wide success was dampened by what looked like a serious looking Achilles tendon injury that was sustained by left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj on the stroke of lunch.

Maharaj was celebrating the wicket of Kyle Mayers after taking up a leg-before on review that wasn't given by umpire Paul Reiffel.

Maharaj was in the process of celebrating the wicket that reduced the West Indies to 34/6 in 84 minutes of morning cricket where the visitors couldn't come to terms with the combination of accurate pace and spin.

He was taken for an MRI scan to determine the nature of his injury, but it looks increasingly likely that he'll not only miss SA's limited-overs leg of the season against the West Indies and the Netherlands, but is in danger of missing out on his county spell with Middlesex.

Maharaj's injury was only downer in what was a successful session for the Proteas that started with Kagiso Rabada (2/19) trapping Kraigg Brathwaite (18) in front to remove him for the fourth consecutive time this season.

Two balls later, Rabada strangled Raymon Reifer (0) down the leg-side to leave the West Indies tottering at 21/2.

Three overs later, it became 25/3 when Tagenarine Chanderpaul (2) was caught at second slip by Dean Elgar off Simon Harmer.

Maharaj (2/4) then got into the act in the next over when he castled Roston Chase (0) as the West