RAWALPINDI CRICKET STADIUM: Although Green Shirts Mohammad Nawaz and Saim Ayub manifested their spinning skills here on Tuesday (28th Oct, 2025) 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.
Pakistan won the toss and invited the South African Cricket Team to bat first on the batting-friendly pitch.
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Proteas scored 194 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in twenty overs: Reeza Hendricks scored 60 runs, George Linde scored 36 runs, while Tony de Zorzi scored 33 runs. Pakistan’s Mohammad Nawaz took three wickets yielding 26 runs, whereas, Saim Ayub hunted two scalps at the cost of 31 runs.
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.
George Fredrik Linde was declared player of the match.
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Squads:
Green Shirts: Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Babar Azam, Salman Ali Agha (Skipper), Usman Khan, Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed
Proteas: Quinton de Kock, Reeza Hendricks, Tony de Zorzi, Dewald Brevis, Matthew Breetzke, Donovan Ferreira (Skipper), George Linde, Corbin Bosch, Lizaad Williams, Nandre Burger, Lungi Ngidi.
The Second T20I will be played at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on Friday (31st Oct, 2025);
The 3rd & final T20I of the series will also be staged at Gaddafi Stadium on Sat (1st Nov, 2025).
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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