Pakistan beat the Proteas by seven wickets within the third ODI on Saturday, taking the collection 2-1.
Left-handed opener Saim Ayub smashed 11 fours and a six in his 70-ball 77 to steer Pakistan to a 144-run chase in 25.1 overs after spinner Abrar Ahmed’s 4-27 had routed South Africa for 143 in 37.5 overs.
Ayub added 65 runs for the second wicket with Babar Azam (27) after Nandre Burger dismissed opener Fakhar Zaman for nought with the second ball of the innings.
Azam fell run out, a lot to the frustration of a packed 16,000 Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad, having now gone 32 innings with out an ODI hundred.
Ayub fell to spinner Bjorn Fortuin earlier than Mohammad Rizwan, 32*, and Salman Agha, 5 not out, accomplished the chase.
The ODI collection win is Pakistan’s first towards South Africa at house, having misplaced 3-2 twice in 2003 and 2007.
Pakistan gained the primary match by two wickets and South Africa took the second by eight wickets, additionally in Faisalabad.
HIGHLIGHTS: Pakistan vs Proteas (third ODI)
Victorious skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi stated: “It’s an entire crew effort and a reward for exhausting work.”
Shaheen, captaining Pakistan for the primary time in ODIs, added: “This win will give us confidence for the approaching matches.”
Visiting captain Matthew Breetzke praised Abrar.
“We needed a complete of 250-plus however Abrar bowled very nicely and we misplaced too many wickets,” stated Breetzke, standing in for injured skipper Temba Bavuma.
Earlier, Abrar mixed with Salman Agha (2-18) and pacer Shaheen (2-18) routed South Africa who gained the toss and batted, however solely 4 batsmen crossed double figures.
Quinton de Kock adopted his hundred within the second match with a high rating of 53 off 70 balls with a six and 6 fours whereas Lhuan-dre Pretorius hit a 45-ball 39 with a six and 4 fours.
When on 44, De Kock accomplished 7,000 runs in 158th innings, the second quickest to the milestone behind countryman Hashim Amla in 150 innings.
De Kock, 32, is the fifth South African to attain 7,000 or extra ODI runs behind Jacques Kallis (11,550), AB de Villiers (9,427), Amla (8,113) and Herschelle Gibbs (8,094).
De Kock and Pretorius set the platform with a 72-run opening stand earlier than the spinners hit again for Pakistan because the guests misplaced their 9 wickets for 56 runs.
Agha dismissed Pretorius and Tony de Zorzi for 2 within the house of 15 runs earlier than left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz ended all hopes of an enormous complete with the wicket of De Kock within the twenty fifth over.
Abrar jolted the innings by dismissing Rubin Hermann (one), Donovan Ferreira (seven) and Corbin Bosch (nought) in successive overs.
He then ended Breetzke’s resistance-filled 16 to enhance on his earlier better of 4-33 which got here towards Zimbabwe in Harare final yr.
Shaheen had Nqabayomzi Peter (16) and Lungi Ngidi (nought) to wrap up the innings within the thirty eighth over.
– AFP
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