Marco Jansson took 6 wickets in the second innings.
In the Centurion Test, Pakistan were all out for 237 runs in their second innings. The team trailed by 90 runs in the first innings, so South Africa reached the target of 148 runs. By the end of the third day’s play, the team had scored 27 runs after losing 3 wickets.
If South Africa wins the first test, the team will reach the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025. All that remains is to decide the place of the second team, for which there is a fight between India, Australia and Sri Lanka.
Babar scored fifty. The match started late due to rain on the third day. Pakistan started playing with a score of 88/3, Babar Azam led the innings with 16 runs and Saud Shakeel led the innings with a score of 8 runs. Both scored close to 150 and Babar scored fifty. He was caught by Marco Janson with a score of 50 points.
Babar Azam was out after scoring fifty.
As soon as Babar left, a flurry of wickets began. At the time of Babar’s wicket Pakistan’s score was 153/4, the team lost the next 4 wickets scoring 56 runs. Saud Shakeel stood at one end, but no batsman could stand in front of him. Mohammad Rizwan 3, Salman Agha 1 and Aamer Jamal scored 18 runs. Shakeel was out after scoring 84 runs.
Naseem Shah and Mohammad Abbas could not even open an account. Khurram Shahzad scored 9 points. Marco Janson took 6 wickets of South Africa. Kagiso Rabada got 2 wickets. Dan Patterson and Corbin Bosch took the wicket 1-1.
Saud Shakeel scored 84 runs to take Pakistan to a respectable score.
South Africa lost 3 wickets. South Africa got off to a very poor start ahead of the 148-point target. The team lost 3 wickets for just 19 runs. Tony DeGeorge was out after scoring 2 points and Tristan Stubbs was out after scoring 1 point, Ryan Rickelton couldn’t even open the score. Mohammad Abbas took 2 wickets. Khurram Shahzad got 1 wicket. Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma were not out until the stumps, the team was 121 runs behind the target.
South Africa took a 90-point lead on the second day. South Africa scored 301 runs in their first innings of the second day. From the team, Aiden Markram played an inning of 89 runs and Corbin Bosch played an inning of 81 runs. South Africa had lost 8 wickets at a score of 213 runs, from there Bosh and Talenders gave the team a 90 run lead. …
Corbin Bosch also scored 81 runs and took 4 wickets.
Pakistan could only score 211 runs on the first day. Pakistan won the toss on Thursday and elected to bat, but the team could not capitalize on the opportunity. Kamran Ghulam scored 54 runs, rest of the batsmen could not score more than 30 runs. The team was restricted to 211 runs, Dan Patterson took 5 wickets. …
Pakistan could only score 211 runs in the first innings.