{"id":60723,"date":"2024-12-29T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=60723"},"modified":"2024-12-29T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T13:07:00","slug":"south-africa-edge-past-pakistan-by-two-wickets-in-thrilling-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/south-africa-edge-past-pakistan-by-two-wickets-in-thrilling-first-test\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa edge past Pakistan by two wickets in thrilling first test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Kagiso Rabada (31 off 26) and Marco Johnson (16 off 24 balls) guided<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-unveils-playing-xi-for-first-test-against-south-africa\/\"> South Africa<\/a> to a two-wicket win over <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistani-rupee-pkr-remains-stable-against-us-dollar-december-29-2024\/\">Pakistan<\/a> in the first Test at Centurion to book their place in the final of the World Test Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan are two wickets away from a dramatic first Test victory against South Africa. But Rabada and Johnson showed enough resilience to dash Pakistan&#8217;s hopes of winning the thrilling encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Mohammad Abbas played a key role, taking four wickets in a marathon spell of 13 overs, as South Africa&#8217;s modest chase of 148 became increasingly difficult. At 116-8 at lunch, South Africa were pinning their hopes on the fast-bowling duo of Marco Johnson (5) and Kagiso Rabada (10), who were unbeaten at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas, whose combined figures were 6-43 in 17 overs, created a remarkable havoc. South Africa needed just 50 runs to win with six wickets remaining.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abbas dismissed captain Temba Bavuma for 40, whose walkout after being caught behind was later revealed to have been a bad decision by replays. The ball had hit Bavuma in the pocket, not the bat.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas also dismissed Aiden Markram for 37, before sending David Bedingham and Corbin Bosh back to the pavilion, both caught by wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan. Bosh fell for a golden duck, leaving South Africa to start the day at 96-4 to 99-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Kagiso Rabada (31 off 26) and Marco Johnson (16 off 24 balls) guided South Africa to a two-wicket win over Pakistan in the first Test at Centurion to book their place in the final of the World Test Championship. Pakistan are two wickets away from a dramatic first Test victory against South Africa. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2599,25275,25276],"class_list":["post-60723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-south-africa","tag-kagiso-rabada","tag-marco-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60723","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60727,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60723\/revisions\/60727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}