RAWALPINDI CRICKET STADIUM: South African cricket team has levelled the two-match series 1-1 beating Pakistan by eight wickets in the 2nd Test here on Thursday (23rd Oct, 2025).
Proteas’ 36-year-old off-spinner Simon Harmer hunted six scalps yielding only fifty runs. Chasing the 68-run target set by Green Shirts, Skipper Aiden Markram scored 42 runs, while Ryan Rickelton’s bat yielded 25 runs (not out).
On the 2nd day of 2nd Test, South African cricket team scored 185 in 1st innings for 4 at stumps against Pakistan on Tuesday (21st of Oct, 2025).
Earlier, the cricket team of Pakistan – that was leading the Test match series one-nil – scored 333 runs (all out) in first innings.
First Test: South African cricket team had been beaten by Green Shirts by 93 runs in the first of the two match Test series in Lahore on 15th October.
Green Shirts’ 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.
Green Shirts’ 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.
Proteas’ 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.
Proteas’ 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.
Squads:
Green Shirts: Shan Masood (Skipper), Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan, Salman Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan, Asif Afridi.
Proteas: Aiden Markram (Skipper), Ryan Rickelton, Tony de Zorzi, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Kyle Verreynne, Marco Jansen, Simon Harmer, Keshav Maharaj, Senuran Muthusamy, Kagiso Rabada.
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