Pakistan’s defeat (Photo-PTI)
PAK VS SA: Pakistan, which was dreaming of winning the Test series by defeating South Africa in Lahore, has got a huge blow in Rawalpindi. Pakistan team lost badly in the second test match. South Africa won this match by a huge margin of 8 wickets. With this victory of South Africa, the two-Test series was drawn 1-1. The surprising thing is that in this match, Pakistan made the pitch as per their choice, they won the toss and batted first but despite this they lost.
This is how Pakistan lost the Rawalpindi test
Pakistan South Africa’s team scored 333 runs in the first innings in Rawalpindi, in response South Africa scored 404 runs. After this, in the second innings, Pakistan’s second innings collapsed at just 138. South Africa got the target of 68 runs to win and in response, this team achieved this target by losing 2 wickets in just 12.3 overs.
Pakistani batting piled up in the second innings
Pakistan’s second innings proved to be very bad. Six of his batsmen could not reach double figures and four batsmen did not even open their account. Only Babar Azam played an inning of 50 runs, apart from him Salman Agha scored 28 runs but three top order batsmen Imam ul Haq, Shafiq and Captain Masood failed miserably.
Keshav Maharaj became the hero of victory
Keshav Maharaj became the hero of South Africa’s victory, who took 7 wickets for 102 runs in the first innings. Not only this, he also played an important inning of 30 runs in the first innings, which took away the breath of Pakistan. At one time Pakistan team was winning this match easily. In the first innings, he took 7 wickets of South Africa for 210 runs. But despite this the South African team reached 404 runs. Senuran Muthusamy played an unbeaten inning of 89 runs in the first innings. Whereas Kagiso Rabada came at number 11 and scored 71 runs in 61 balls.