Pakistan vs South Africa: In the first Test match of Pakistan vs South Africa. The Proteas won the toss and elected to bat. On day 4 of the Test match. The hosts needed just 86 runs and they chased down the target comfortably. Pakistan chased down the target in 22.1 overs and lost three wickets (86\/3). Pakistan won the first Test match by 7 wickets and lead the two-match Test series by 1-0.<\/p>\n
SA was bowled out for just 220\/10 in 69.2 overs. Dean Elgar\u2019s contributed 58.
\nYasir Shah scalped three wickets for the hosts while Nauman Ali and Shaheen Afridi pocketed two wickets each.<\/p>\n
Pakistan played brilliantly to score 378\/10 in 119.2 overs. Credit to Fawad Alam\u2019s scored a ton while Faheem Ashraf\u2019s 64 helped the hosts to take a substantial lead.
\nKeshav Maharaj and Kagiso Rabada scalped three wickets each.<\/p>\n
The proteas failed in the second innings as well. Only scoring 245\/10 in 100.3 overs.
\nAiden Akram\u2019s 74 coupled with Rassie van der Dussen\u2019s 64 helped to reach SA to reach 245.
\nNauman Ali got a fifer while Yasir Shah pocketed four wickets.<\/p>\n
the hosts just need 86 runs to win on Day 4. SA got two wickets, however. Pakistan won the as they finished 86\/3 in 22.1 overs. Azhar Ali\u2019s was the highest score of 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan vs South Africa: In the first Test match of Pakistan vs South Africa. The Proteas won the toss and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":25058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,835,1264,623],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-babar-azam","tag-kagiso-rabada","tag-pakistan-cricket-team","tag-quinton-de-kock"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}