South African cricket Series in Pakistan

[TNT]

I am amazed a pthetic player like azhar ali is in team regularly. Pakistan cricket is in drain. I hardly see people taking much interest in it anymore.

 

[ghazi52]

If people are not allow to watch, then play test match here in Pissan Cricket Ground in Nagar, Gilgit Baltistan.

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Or at Gwadar.

 

[BATMAN]

50% of top batting order is parchi of Imran Khan.

 

[ghazi52]

South Africa 127-1 in chase of 370 on day four

• Pakistan won the first Test by seven wickets in Karachi.

AFP
07 Feb 2021

RAWALPINDI: South Africa, chasing a daunting target of 370, were 127-1 at close on the fourth day of the second Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Sunday.

Aiden Markram was unbeaten on 59 and Rassie van der Dussen was on 48 at the crease. South Africa will need another 243 runs on the fifth and final day to win the match and level the series at 1-1.

Pakistan were dismissed for 298 in their second innings with wicketkeeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan scoring an unbeaten 115.

Pakistan won the first Test by seven wickets in Karachi.

 

[Peace be there]

First India in Aus, then WI in Bangladesh and now Can SA do the same in Pak? As a cricketing fan would love to see SA chase this down.

 

[Peace be there]

Really disappointed with RSA. Always a flurry of wickets after being stable

 

[Morpheus]

Pakistan beat South Africa in second Test, win series 2-0
Anees Hanif On Feb 8, 2021 Last updated Feb 8, 2021

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan won its first series against South Africa since 2003 by 2-0 with a 95-run victory in the second Test on the fifth and final day in Rawalpindi on Monday.

Set 370-run to win, the Proteas were bowled out for 274 with Pakistan medium pacer Hasan Ali taking 5-60 — his best match figures of 10-114.

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Opener Aiden Markram scored a fighting 108 and Temba Bavuma 61.
They put on a 106-run stand for the fourth wicket but Hasan struck with the second new ball to end Markram’s resistance.

The 2-0 win is only Pakistan’s second over South Africa in 12 Test series, having lost eight and drawn three.
Pakistan won the first Test by seven wickets in Karachi.

Pakistan’s only previous series win over South Africa was in a two-match series at home in 2003.
The series against South Africa — who were touring Pakistan for the first time in 14 years — is the biggest hosted by the home side since a deadly 2009 militant attack on Sri Lanka’s squad in Lahore halted international tours.


The two teams will now play three Twenty20 internationals on February 11, 13 and 14, all in Lahore.

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Pakistan beat South Africa in second Test, win series 2-0

Set 370-run to win South Africa were bowled out for 274 with Pakistan medium pacer Hasan Ali taking 5-60 -- recording his best match figures of 10-114

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[RIP Pak LAW]

Very interesting match in the end and well played Pakistan.

 

[hussain0216]

It was a really good win

Pakistan did incredibly well to give a target of 370, Rizwan made a superb century

I feared South Africa would chase it because the pitch just flattened out, but bowlers put in a great performance, keeping it tight and picking up vital wickets

Once the new ball came the knockout came


Bowling was fine, lower order batting was good
Middle order batting was acceptable

But our top order is ATROCIOUS we are always 2-3 wickets down and it's why we are losing matches, because we fail to put up big scores it's been like this for years and years

 

[ghazi52]

 

[ghazi52]

Hasan Ali leads Pakistan to first series win over South Africa since 2003


AFP
February 8, 2021

South Africa's Aiden Markram (R) celebrates with teammate Temba Bavuma (C) after scoring a century (100 runs) during the fifth and final day of the second Test cricket match at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Feb 8. — AFP

Pakistan's players celebrate after winning the Test series against South Africa during the fifth and final day of the second Test cricket match between Pakistan and South Africa at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on Monday. — AFP

Pakistan's Hasan Ali (R) celebrates after taking the wicket of South Africa's Aiden Markram (L) during the fifth and final day of the second Test cricket match at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Feb 8. — AFP

Medium pacer Hasan Ali took a maiden ten-wicket haul to help Pakistan win its first series against South Africa since 2003 with a 95-run victory in the second Test on the fifth and final day in Rawalpindi on Monday.

Hasan finished with 5-60 to record his best match figures of 11-114 and help dismiss South Africa — who were set a daunting 370 to chase — for 274 before the tea break.

Hasan's new-ball partner Shaheen Shah Afridi finished with 4-51, while spinner Yasir Shah took the last wicket to spark jubilation among the Pakistan players.

Opener Aiden Markram scored a fighting 108 and Temba Bavuma 61.

They put on a 106-run stand for the fourth wicket to give Pakistan a scare.

Markram took a single off the last ball before lunch as South Africa reached the break on 219-3, needing 151 for a win.

But Hasan ripped through the tourists' batting order, which lost seven wickets for just 33 runs with the second new ball.

Hasan struck with the second over of the new ball to end Markram's resistance by getting the opener caught in the slip and end his 335-minute fight.

Markram's fifth Test century — the first outside South Africa — included 13 boundaries and three sixes.

Next ball, Hasan had Quinton de Kock caught in the slip for nought, ending the South African skipper's miserable series with just 46 runs.



Historic win


Hasan dismissed George Linde for four to record his third five-wicket haul as he improved upon his previous best match figures of 7-83 against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi in 2018.

In the morning, both teams were involved in a keen battle for victory as South Africa resumed on 127-1, knowing the best chase at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in ten previous Tests was the 200 scored by Sri Lanka in 2000.

South Africa saw Dussen bowled off a beautiful inswinger by Hasan — only the third ball of the day — while Du Plessis was leg-before to the same bowler in the fifth over of the morning.

It capped a sub-par series for the experienced Du Plessis who managed just 55 in four innings.

This is Pakistan's only second Test series win over South Africa in 12 attempts, having lost eight and drawn three.

Pakistan last beat South Africa 1-0 in a two-match series at home in 2003.
Pakistan won the first Test by seven wickets in Karachi.

The series win also lifts Pakistan to fifth in international Test rankings — the first time they have placed in the top five since January 2017.

South Africa are pushed to sixth from fifth.

The two teams will now play three Twenty20 internationals on February 11, 13 and 14, all in Lahore.

 

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[Pak-Canuck]

Was a great win no doubt, but we really need to sort out this top order crap asap. Imran Butt being given a debut made absolutely no sense (his first class average is barely in the mid-30's) and unsurprisingly he didn't make one good score, why they chose him over guys who average nearly 50 like Saud Shakeel and Kamran Ghulam (the guy that JUST broke the Pak season record for most runs scored and therefore in prime form) boggles my mind. Azhar Ali could have easily opened (where he actually averages more and has played multiple times), why send him at his 1-down position where he is clearly struggling. Babar just came back from a long injury so was understandable and still made a decent 1st innings score. Atleast this was a great start to his test captaincy, and considering his next test assignments are against Zimbabwe and West Indies hopefully he will win those easily and fully set into the role.

Shan Masood and Imam Ul Haq have already been tried as openers in tests and failed. I hope in no way that they come back (Imam is solely an ODI player and should stick to that as he has done well there). Sami Aslam was the one great opening prospect we had and for some reason after the few chances we gave him even though he did decent, was dropped and ignored and he went to the states instead.

 

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