Homeદે ઘુમા કેPakistan defeated South Africa by 3 wickets in the first ODI

Pakistan defeated South Africa by 3 wickets in the first ODI

Team Chabuk-Sports Desk: Pakistan defeated South Africa by 3 wickets in the first ODI. With this victory, the visiting team took a 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series. Babar Azam played an important role in Pakistan winning the match. He scored 103 runs while playing the captaincy innings. Earlier, South Africa had scored 273 runs for 6 wickets in their innings. In this exciting match, Pakistan won on the last ball.

In this match played at Centurion, Pakistan won the toss and elected to field first. Batting first, the South African team got off to a bad start and the first wicket fell to 32 runs. Opener quinton de kock was dismissed for 20. After this, the second opener Aidan Markram did not last long and he continued to walk by scoring 19 runs. At one point South Africa’s 4 wickets had fallen to 55 runs.

This was followed by South Africa’s rising stars Rassie van der Dussen and David Miller. These two players played carefully and played a century partnership. David Miller was out for 50 runs. While Dussen played an unbeaten innings of 123 runs. In the lower order, Andile Phehlukwayo managed to score 29 runs. Thus, South Africa scored 273 runs for 6 wickets. For Pakistan, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf took 2-2 wickets.

Achieving the target of 274 runs, the Pakistan team also started badly and the first wicket collapsed at 9 runs. Opener Fakhar Zaman was out for 8 runs. Babar Azam, batting at number three, led the innings with Imam-ul-Haq. These two batsmen shared 177 runs to make the match easier for Pakistan.

Babar Azam was out for 103 runs while Imam-ul-Haq played an innings of 70 runs. After the dismissal of these two players, the bowlers of South Africa made a comeback. Enrique Nortje bowled well and took 4 wickets. On one hand, Mohammad Rizwan was playing but South Africa managed to put pressure on the visiting team. Rizwan was dismissed for 40 runs.

After this, Pakistan had to make 3 runs in the last over. Phehlukwayo, who came to bowl the 50th over, dismissed Shadab Khan on the first ball. He played an innings of 33 runs. No runs were made on four balls in this over. Faheem Ashraf took 2 runs on the fifth ball of the over. Now Pakistan needed 1 run on the last ball to win the match. On the last ball, Faheem took 1 run and won the match for Pakistan. Babar Azam, who scored 103 runs in this exciting match, was given the Player of the Match award.

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