GADDAFI STADIUM (LAHORE): With the help of 69 runs off 47 balls that the bat of Babar Azam yielded, Cricket team of Pakistan managed to clinch the 3 match T20I series beating Proteas by 4 wickets here on Sunday (2nd Nov, 2025).
Proteas: 139-9, 20 overs (Reeza Hendricks 34, Corbin Bosch 30 (n/o), Donovan Ferreira 29; Shaheen Shah Afridi 3-26, Usman Tariq 2-26, Faheem Ashraf 2-28)
Green Shirts: 140-6, 19 overs (Babar Azam 68, Salman Ali Agha 33; Corbin Bosch 2-24, Lizaad Williams 2-26).
Babar Azam was declared Player of the Match
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Score Card:
LAHORE: Skipper of the Pakistan cricket team Salman Ali Agha snapped receiving the trophy.
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From November 4 to 8, Green Shirts and Proteas will play three ODI series in Faisalabad.
2nd T20I: Pakistan cricket team had beaten Proteas by 9 wickets in the 2nd of the 3 match T20I on (31st Oct, 2025.
Pakistan successfully chased the 111-run target with 41 deliveries to spare. Saim smashed an unbeaten 71 off 38, hitting six fours and five sixes, to help Pakistan chase down the paltry 111-run target in the 14th over.
FIRST T20I : Although Green Shirts Mohammad Nawaz and Saim Ayub manifested their spinning skills here on 28th Oct, night by restricting Proteas to 194 for nine wickets in the 1st T20I cricket match, Pakistan Cricket team collapsed in 195 runs chase and barely scored 139 in 18.1 overs.
Green Shirts scored 139 (all out) in 18.1 overs: Saim Ayub scored 37 runs, Mohammad Nawaz made 36 runs, while Sahibzada Farhan’s bat yielded 24 runs. South African Corbin Bosch sent 4 Pakistani batsmen back to pavilion yielding 14 runs, George Linde dismissed 3 Green Shirts who managed to score 31, whereas, Lizaad Williams hunted 2 scalps at the cost of 21 runs.
The Test Series: It may be recalled that earlier the 2 Test match series was levelled by South Africa. 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).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.
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