The West Indies [ Images ] raced to 86 for one by the end of day two in the second Test at Warner Park in St Kitts on Saturday after South Africa [ Images ] declared on 543 for 6.

The home side were 457 runs behind with nine wickets in hand when bad light stopped play for the day.

Captain Chris Gayle [ Images ] led the run chase with an unbeaten 42 while Narsingh Deonarine, promoted to the number three position ahead of Brendan Nash [ Images ] who occupied that position in the previous Test, was the other not-out batsman on 33.

After opener Travis Dowlin was caught by AB de Villiers [ Images ] at slip for 10 off a Morne Morkel [ Images ] delivery, Gayle and Deonarine combined for 73 runs as Gayle plastered seven fours and Deonarine hit two fours and a six.

Before the declaration, De Villiers became the third South African to score a century in their innings following captain Graeme Smith's [ Images ] 132 on Friday and Jacques Kallis's [ Images ] 110.

De Villiers hit 13 fours and six sixes from 168 balls to help him reach 135.

South Africa won the first Test by 163 runs.

Scorecard

 South Africa (1st innings):
 G Smith b Roach 132 
 A Petersen c Roach b Shillingford 52
 H Amla c Bravo b Shillingford 44 
 J Kallis c Rampaul b Shillingford 110
 AB de Villiers not out 135 
 A Prince c Gayle b Benn 9
 M Boucher run out 17
 D Steyn not out 20
 Extras: (lb-5, w-2, nb-17) 24 
 Total: (for 6 wickets - declared) 543

 Did not bat: P. Harris, M. Morkel, L. Tsotsobe

 Fall of wickets: 1-99, 2-211, 3-283, 4-421, 5-442, 6-490.

 Bowling: K. Roach 22-4-72-1 (nb-12 w-1), R. Rampaul 18-4-65-0 (nb-1), S. Benn 30-3-124-1, D. Bravo 18-2-58-0 (w-1), S. Shillingford 52-4-193-3 (nb-4), N. Deonarine 3-0-20-0, B. Nash 4-0-6-0

 West Indies (1st innings):
 C Gayle not out 42
 T Dowlin c de Villiers b Morkel 10
 N. Deonarine not out 33
 Extras: (nb-1) 1
 Total: (for 1 wicket) 86

 Fall of wickets: 1-13

 Bowling: D. Steyn 7.2-2-15-0, M. Morkel 6-0-29-1 (nb-1), L. Tsotsobe 4-0-19-0, P. Harris 6-0-23-0.