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BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Tuesday (Reuters)

South Africa's Jacques Kallis broke the world record for the longest time spent at the crease between dismissals on the last day of the second and final test against Zimbabwe.

Kallis had scored a career best 189 not out when South Africa declared their first innings on 519 for eight at the fall of Claude Henderson's wicket, prompting the tea interval.

Zimbabwe made 419 for nine declared in their first innings, giving South Africa, 1-0 up in the series, a lead of 100 as the match dwindled towards a draw.

Kallis spent more than nine and a half hours at the crease, facing 443 balls and hitting 19 fours and three sixes.

The number three scored 157 not out and an unbeaten 42 in the first test in Harare, which South Africa won by nine wickets.

In all, he has batted for 1,028 minutes on the tour, breaking the record of 1,021 minutes set by England captain Nasser Hussain in South Africa in 1999-2000.

Zimbabwe's left-arm spinner Ray Price took career best figures of five for 181.

The 79 overs he bowled are a record for a Zimbabwean in a test innings, surpassing the 67 overs leg-spinner Paul Strang sent down against Pakistan in Sheikhupura in 1996-97.

South Africa resumed on 300 for two, and Kallis reached his century in the seventh over of the morning with a square cut for four off Price.

Two overs after Kallis posted his century, Neil McKenzie was trapped lbw by a Travis Friend yorker off the fast bowler's first delivery of the day.

McKenzie scored 88 off 202 balls with 10 fours and a six, and his dismissal ended a third wicket stand of 181 that began 12 overs after lunch on Monday.

Thirteen overs later, Boeta Dippenaar, on 11, attempted a lofted on drive off Price but instead sliced the ball high into the covers where Grant Flower took the catch.

South Africa went to lunch on 390 for four, and lost their fifth wicket in the eighth over after the interval when Lance Klusener drove at a ball from Price and was well held at slip by Alistair Campbell for 27.

Shaun Pollock, who scored an aggressive 41 off 57 balls with five fours and a six, was brilliantly caught by Stuart Carlisle at backward point to earn Price his fifth wicket.

Friend took what became the last two wickets to fall in the innings with identical in-swinging deliveries that bowled Mark Boucher for 14 and Henderson for a duck.

South Africa won the first test in Harare by nine wickets.

ZIMBABWE - 1ST INNINGS-(419-9 declared)

SOUTH AFRICA - 1ST INNINGS-(300-2 overnight)

H. Gibbs c A Flower b Price 		74
G. Kirsten st A Flower b Price		65
J. Kallis not out    		       189
N. McKenzie lbw b Friend 		88
B. Dippenaar c G Flower b Price		11
L. Klusener c Campbell b Price  	27
S. Pollock c Carlisle b Price  		41
M. Boucher b Friend  			14
C. Henderson b Friend    		 0
Extras (B-3 LB-7)			10
TOTAL (for eight wkts decl)	       519
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-117, 2-162, 
3-343, 4-368, 5-418, 6-490, 7-513, 8-519.
DID NOT BAT: M Ntini, A Nel.
BOWLING: Streak 25-9-64-0, 
Friend 30.2-9-87-3, Strang 14.2-2-52-0, 
Price 79-19-181-5, Whittall 29.4-6-80-0, 
G. Flower 8-0-45-0.

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