{"id":59085,"date":"2024-12-14T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=59085"},"modified":"2024-12-14T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:20:05","slug":"hendricks-fireworks-takes-south-africa-to-t20-series-win-over-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/hendricks-fireworks-takes-south-africa-to-t20-series-win-over-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendricks fireworks takes South Africa to T20 series win over Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CENTURION <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">(Reuters):<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Opener Reeza Hendricks smashed 117 runs from 63 balls to guide South Africa to a seven-wicket victory over Pakistan in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-unveils-playing-xi-for-t20i-series-opener-against-south-africa\/\">second Twenty20 International<\/a> at Centurion Park on Friday as they claimed the three-match series 2-0 with a game to spare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pakistan elected to bat first and, boosted by an unbeaten 98 from 57 balls by opener Saim Ayub, posted 206 for five in their 20 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But on a good batting wicket, South Africa overcame a sluggish start to reach their target with three balls to spare as the brilliant Hendricks scored a maiden T20 International century that included 10 sixes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He put on 157 in a partnership with Rassie van der Dussen, who was unbeaten on 66 from 38 balls as the latter guided the hosts over the line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It is a record for the third wicket for South Africa, while Hendricks reached 50 for the 18th time in T20 Internationals, the most for South Africa and one more than Quinton de Kock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The third and final match of the series will be staged in Johannesburg on <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Saturday<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0before the teams play three One-Day Internationals and two tests in an all-format tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Playing XI<\/h2>\n<p><b>Pakistan:<\/b>\u00a0Mohammad Rizwan (captain and wicketkeeper), Babar Azam, Saim Ayub, Usman Khan, Tayyab Tahir, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Jahandad Khan, Haris Rauf and Abrar Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p><b>South Africa:<\/b>\u00a0Reeze Hendricks, Ryan Rickelton Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen (captain and wicketkeeper), Donovan Ferreira, George Linde, Dayyaan Galiem, Ottneil Baartman, Nqaba Peter and Kwena Maphaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CENTURION (Reuters):\u00a0Opener Reeza Hendricks smashed 117 runs from 63 balls to guide South Africa to a seven-wicket victory over Pakistan in the second Twenty20 International at Centurion Park on Friday as they claimed the three-match series 2-0 with a game to spare. Pakistan elected to bat first and, boosted by an unbeaten 98 from 57 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":59086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1315,2599,24771],"class_list":["post-59085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan-cricket","tag-south-africa","tag-pak-vs-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59087,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59085\/revisions\/59087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}