West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo completed hundreds here on Tuesday that established a new Test record of eight centuries in a match on the last day of the fourth and final Test against South Africa.

The match ended in a tame draw on Tuesday giving the tourists a 2-0 series win.

Chanderpaul scored 127 and Bravo made 107 in a West Indies first innings total of 747. The previous record had been seven. Three previous Tests had produced that many hundreds -England and Australia at Trent Bridge in 1938, West Indies and Australia at Kingston in 1955, and last year's Test between the South Africans and West Indies at Cape Town.

For a moment, the record had overshadowed that South Africa had won the four-Test series 2-0, and reclaimed the Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, symbol of supremacy between the two teams.

They won the second Test at Port of Spain by eight wickets, and the third Test at Bridgetown by an innings and 86 runs. The first Test at Georgetown ended in a draw.

At one stage towards the end, Boeta Dippenaar, in particular, and Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, looked like they wanted to add to the new record, but finished unbeaten on 56 and 50 respectively, as South Africa, trailing West Indies by 159 runs on first innings, ended the match on 129 for one in their second innings.

Dippenaar struck seven fours and two sixes from 101 balls, and Smith smote seven fours from 87 balls and finished the series with 505 runs.

South Africa suffered an early setback batting a second time, when Tino Best claimed the wicket of Abraham de Villiers caught at mid-on for 12 mistiming a pull, but Smith and Dippenaar soon short circuited any ideas of an exciting finish.

Before lunch, Chanderpaul had completed his record-equalling 13th Test hundred as he flicked Shaun Pollock through backward square leg for three to reach his milestone.

After lunch, Bravo, with whom Chanderpaul added 130 for the sixth wicket, needed 32 more runs for his landmark hundred, when West Indies continued from their interval position of 690 for seven.

It was the second time in the last four Tests at the Antigua Recreation Ground that a captain had used every player in his side to bowl.

Three years ago, India's Sourav Ganguly was the unfortunate captain in a West Indies first innings total of 629 for nine declared.

BRIEF SCORES

SOUTH AFRICA: First innings 588 for 6 declared (Kallis 147, Prince 131, Smith 126, De Villiers 114; Powell 2-137) and second innings 127 for 1 (Dippenaar 56, Smith 50; Best 1-31)

WEST INDIES: First innings 747 (Gayle 317, Sarwan 127, Chanderpaul 127, Bravo 107; Zondeki 3-120, de Villiers 2-49, Smith 2-145)

Result: Match drawn and South Africa clinch four-Test series 2-0. Man-of-the-match: Chris Gayle.

Man-of-the-series: Graeme

Smith.