Pak vs South Africa: In the third ODI against South Africa, the Pakistani team won by 36 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis rule. Pakistan whitewashed South Africa by winning the three-match ODI series 3-0. In the match played at Wanderers Stadium, Pakistan won this victory on the basis of excellent batting of Sam Ayub and excellent bowling of Sufiyan Muqeem.
Pakistan clean sweeps South Africa on home ground
With this, Pakistan has become the first team to clean sweep South Africa at home before the upcoming Champions Trophy. Due to rain this match was reduced to 47 overs. Batting first, Pakistani team scored 308 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. In reply, the South African team could score only 271 runs and lost the match. Ayub was chosen ‘Man of the Match’ for his brilliant century. He scored 101 runs on 94 balls. In which he included 13 fours and 2 sixes in the innings.
Temba Bavuma fails again as captain
South African captain Temba Bavuma once again failed to win the match for the team. Naseem Shahe took his wicket after just 8 runs. Apart from this, the second opener Tony DeGeorge was caught out by Shaheen Shah Afridi on his own ball. Sufiyan Mukeem gave the third blow to South Africa by making Aiden Markram his first victim. Markram returned to the pavilion after scoring only 19 runs. Heinrich Klaasen’s bat once again came into play and he scored runs quickly from one end. He scored 81 runs in 43 balls with the help of 12 fours and two sixes. However, this time also he did not get support from the other end.
Mukeem took four wickets
David Miller was out after scoring only three runs and Marco Jansen was out after scoring 26 runs. Shaheen made the class his victim. Corbin Bosh remained unbeaten after scoring 40 runs. But even he could not make the team win. Muqeem took four wickets for Pakistan. Afridi and Naseem got two wickets each. Mohammad Hasnain and Ayub got one success each.
Great performance by Pakistani batsmen
The Pakistan team, which came to bat first in this match, had a very bad start. Abdullah Shafiq became the victim of a golden duck. Kagiso Rabada got him bowled by Shafiq on the second ball of the first over. However, after this Babar Azam and Ayub batted brilliantly. Both made a partnership of 114 runs. Babar Azam was made his victim by Queen Mafaka on a personal score of 52. Then Ayub along with Mohammad Rizwan again took the team’s score to 208 runs.
