GADDAFI STADIUM: South African cricket team has been beaten by Green Shirts by 93 runs in the first of the two match Test series here in Lahore on Wednesday (15th October, 2025).
First Innings: Pakistan’s cricket team scored 378 in 110.4 overs (all out) in the first innings: Imam ul Haq made 93 runs; Salman Ali Agha scored 93 runs; Shan Masood’s bat yielded 76 runs; Mohammad Rizwan mustered 75 runs up. While South African bowler Senuran Muthusamy hunted six scalps yielding 117 runs, Prenelan Subrayen sent two cricketers back to pavilion at the cost of 78 runs.
Second Innings: The Cricket team of Pakistan scored 167 runs in 46.1 overs (all out) in the second innings: Babar Azam made 42 runs, Abdullah Shafique scored 41 runs, Saud Shakeel’s bat yielded 38 runs. Bowlers from Proteas cricket team successfully halted the run-getters of the Green Shirts: While Senuran Muthusamy sent five batters back to the pavilion at the cost of fifty-seven runs, Simon Harmer hunted four scalps yielding 51 runs.
First Innings: The cricket team of South Africa scored 269 runs in the first innings for the loss of ten wickets in 84 overs: Tony de Zorzi scored 104 runs, Ryan Rickelton made 71 runs. Bowler of Pakistani cricket team Noman Ali dismissed six for 112 and Sajid Khan hunted three scalps at the cost of 98 runs. In the second innings Cricket team named Proteas scored 183 all out in 60.5 overs: While Dewald Brevis’ bat yielded 54 runs, Ryan Rickelton made 45 runs.
Second Innings: Pakistani cricket team, popularly known as Green Shirts, pitched Shaheen Shah Afridi against Proteas who took four scalps yielding 33 runs. Noman Ali sent four Proteas back to the pavilion at the cost of 79 runs. Sajid Khan dismissed four South Africans for 38 runs.
Pakistani cricket team went 1-0 up in the two-match series against South Africa.
Green Shirt Noman Ali grabbed the Player of the Match award.
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Cricket Teams:
Green Shirts:
Imam-ul-Haq,
Abdullah Shafique,
Shan Masood (Skipper),
Babar Azam,
Saud Shakeel,
Mohammad Rizwan (wk),
Salman Agha,
Hasan Ali,
Shaheen Afridi,
Noman Ali,
Sajid Khan
Bench
Kamran Ghulam,
Abrar Ahmed,
Khurram Shahzad,
Asif Afridi,
Rohail Nazir
Proteas:
Tony de Zorzi,
Ryan Rickelton,
Wiaan Mulder,
Aiden Markram (c),
Tristan Stubbs,
Dewald Brevis,
Kyle Verreynne (wk),
Senuran Muthusamy,
Prenelan Subrayen,
Kagiso Rabada,
Simon Harmer,
Bench
David Bedingham,
Corbin Bosch,
Marco Jansen,
Zubayr Hamza
The 2nd and final Test of the series will be played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium from 20th of October.
PS: Following the two-match Test series the cricket teams of Pakistan and South Africa will play 3 T20Is and 3 ODIs using white-ball.
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