So a fantastic game of cricket comes to an end. Pakistan fought well throughout their innings but were just not good enough on the day, may be a couple of more wickets in hand could have got them past the line. They got off to a good start with Mohammad Hafeez batting sensibly alongsideKamran Akmal before suddenly losing their way. Shahid Afridi raised hopes with a quickfire knock.Wahab Riaz batted really well but really ran out of partners as Dale Steyn led the Proteas bowling line up with good support from the rest of the bowlers. Eventually they held their nerve to go 2-1 up in the 5-match series.
| South Africa innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
 | GC Smith | b Mohammad Irfan | 3 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 27.27 |
| HM Amla | c Misbah-ul-Haq b Wahab Riaz | 122 | 201 | 113 | 9 | 1 | 107.96 |
| CA Ingram | c †Kamran Akmal b Mohammad Irfan | 17 | 50 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 39.53 |
| AB de Villiers*† | c Shoaib Malik b Saeed Ajmal | 128 | 148 | 108 | 12 | 3 | 118.51 |
| F du Plessis | c Younis Khan b Wahab Riaz | 45 | 28 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 236.84 |
| F Behardien | not out | 6 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| R McLaren | not out | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 8, w 13, nb 1) | 22 | ||||||
 | ||||||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 50 overs; 230 mins) | 343 | (6.86 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RJ Peterson, RK Kleinveldt, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe |
| Fall of wickets 1-4 (Smith, 2.6 ov), 2-42 (Ingram, 13.5 ov), 3-280 (Amla, 44.1 ov), 4-301 (de Villiers, 46.3 ov),5-342 (du Plessis, 49.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Mohammad Irfan | 7 | 1 | 34 | 2 | 4.85 | (1w) | |
| Junaid Khan | 10 | 2 | 42 | 0 | 4.20 | (1nb) | ||
| Wahab Riaz | 10 | 0 | 93 | 2 | 9.30 | (7w) | |
| Shahid Afridi | 7 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 7.85 | |||
| Mohammad Hafeez | 6 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 8.16 | (2w) | ||
| Saeed Ajmal | 10 | 0 | 62 | 1 | 6.20 | (2w) |
| Pakistan innings (target: 344 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Nasir Jamshed | c Amla b Tsotsobe | 10 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 71.42 |
| Mohammad Hafeez | c Steyn b Peterson | 57 | 83 | 49 | 6 | 3 | 116.32 |
| Kamran Akmal† | c †de Villiers b McLaren | 30 | 52 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 71.42 |
| Younis Khan | b Peterson | 19 | 21 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 95.00 |
| Misbah-ul-Haq* | c †de Villiers b McLaren | 28 | 65 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 112.00 |
| Shoaib Malik | c Kleinveldt b Tsotsobe | 4 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Shahid Afridi | c McLaren b Tsotsobe | 88 | 68 | 48 | 5 | 7 | 183.33 |
| Wahab Riaz | b Kleinveldt | 45 | 78 | 52 | 5 | 1 | 86.53 |
| Saeed Ajmal | c Kleinveldt b McLaren | 8 | 30 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 53.33 |
| Junaid Khan | c & b Steyn | 9 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 |
| Mohammad Irfan | not out | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 7, nb 1) | 11 | ||||||
| ||||||||
| Total | (all out; 48.1 overs; 228 mins) | 309 | (6.41 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 10 | 1 | 48 | 1 | 4.80 | ||
| LL Tsotsobe | 10 | 0 | 74 | 3 | 7.40 | ||
| RK Kleinveldt | 9.1 | 1 | 77 | 1 | 8.40 | (4w) | |
| RJ Peterson | 10 | 0 | 51 | 2 | 5.10 | ||
| R McLaren Match Status: South Africa Won By 34 Runs. | 9 | 0 | 56 | 3 | 6.22 | (1nb, 3w) |
No comments:
Post a Comment