Shakeel-ur-Rehman
After 17 years, Pakistan faced a humiliating defeat at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, against South Africa by eight wickets in a one-sided match.South Africa level the series 1-1. And perhaps Pakistan’s dream of winning the series against South Africa for the first time in Pakistan will remain unfulfilled. Looking at the Pakistan team, it does not seem possible to win the third match. I had said the same thing after the victory in the first match that (victory covers all the flaws. If we look at the first match too, South Africa played well against Pakistan). The specialty of the Pakistani team has always been that it makes a difficult match easy and an easy match difficult in the traditional way. In the second match, the top order failed , Fakhar, Babar and Rizwan returned to the pavilion on 22 runs. After this, the middle order showed patience and brought the score to 269 runs. In the South African innings, our bowling looked substandard and bowled short bowling on both sides of the wicket. The Protease batters took full advantage of the bowling and played brilliant strokes all around the ground. Lhuan-dre Pretorius
And de Kock’s added 81 runs for the first wicket at an average of more than six runs, paving the way for victory for the team. Mohammad Wasim’s bowling was brilliant in Pakistani bowling. But Pakistani fielding was nonsense as usual, three to four catches were dropped. Especially de Kock’s catch proved to be detrimental and he scored an invincible century to lead the team to victory. South Africa finished well with ten overs remaining. I don’t understand why Aqib Javed, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali and other officials are getting paid because neither your batting nor bowling and fielding is like this, then this army of officials should be abolished. Pakistan’s selection has gone wrong. For one-day matches, you need proper batters, not hitters. T20 players are also selected in one-day matches. Saim Ayub, Fakhar, Faheem Ashraf, Hussain Talat are not ODI players. Imam-ul-Haq, Abdullah Shafiq and Saud Shakeel should have been in the team. Apart from them, you have Abbas Afridi, Khurram Shahzad, Aamir Jamal, Shahnawaz Dhani, Daniyal, Sufyan Muqim, Faisal Akram, Tabib Tahir, Irfan Niazi, Akif Javed, Kamran Ghulam as backup. Quinton de Kock scored his first international century, and his 22nd century overall, as South Africa leveled the ODI series against Pakistan. Tony de Zorzi and de Kock put on a 153-run partnership for the second wicket, before de Kock and Louanne d’Pretorius put on an 81-run opening partnership. They lost only two wickets, de Kock completing the chase of 270 with 59 balls to spare with Matthew Bratz. Rizwan returned to the pavilion after scoring 4 runs. Pakistan batted first, but after the loss of three wickets, Salman Ali Agha and Saim Ayub batted responsibly and built a partnership, both batsmen scored half-centuries. However, Saim was dismissed for 53 and Salman Ali Agha for 69 runs, while Hussain Talat left the team with a score of 10. In the last overs, Muhammad Nawaz and Faheem Ashraf batted responsibly. Nawaz was dismissed for 59 and Faheem Ashraf for 28 runs. Pakistan scored 269 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. South Africa easily achieved Pakistan’s target of 270 runs in the 41st over and won by 8 wickets. For South Africa, Quinton de Kock remained unbeaten on 123 runs, while De Zorzi scored 76 and Pree Torres scored 46 runs, in addition to Matthew Bretz’s 17. Unbeaten with runs. Mohammad Wasim and Faheem Ashraf took one wicket each for Pakistan. After South Africa’s victory in the second ODI, the 3-match series is level at 1-1. It should be noted that Pakistan had defeated South Africa in the first match of the series. The third and deciding match of the series will be played today on November 8 at the Iqbal Stadium
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