{"id":89008,"date":"2025-10-22T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=89008"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:20:58","slug":"muthusamys-steady-knock-puts-south-africa-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/muthusamys-steady-knock-puts-south-africa-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak vs SA: Muthusamy&#8217;s steady knock puts South Africa ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: After the early wickets fell in the Pindi Test, all-rounder <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/south-africa-204-5-in-reply-to-pakistans-333-in-rawalpindi-test\/\">Muthusamy<\/a> batted carefully and gave South Africa the lead.<\/p>\n<p>According to the details, South Africa started the game at 185 for 4 when Asif Afridi caught Kyler Mohammad Rizwan on the fourth ball. Tristan Stubbs scored 76, and Simon Harmer scored 2 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Debutant Asif Afridi had established Pakistan&#8217;s position by taking five wickets, but Muthusamy Senor played his best game to end Pakistan&#8217;s grip on the match.<\/p>\n<p>Muthusamy maintained a partnership of 71 runs for Keshav Maharaj (30) for a promising nine-wicket haul and 98 runs for Rabada&#8217;s magnificent ten-wicket haul.<\/p>\n<p>Kagiso Rabada scored 71 runs to be out to Asif Afridi, while Muthusamy stood not out for 89 runs.<\/p>\n<p>In reply to Pakistan&#8217;s 333 runs, the Proteas were all out for 404 in their first innings. South Africa took a 71-run lead over Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>For Pakistan, Asif Afridi took 6 wickets, Noman Ali took 2 wickets, while Shaheen Afridi and Sajid Khan took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>Asif Afridi became the second left-arm spinner to take five wickets on debut for Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: After the early wickets fell in the Pindi Test, all-rounder Muthusamy batted carefully and gave South Africa the lead. According to the details, South Africa started the game at 185 for 4 when Asif Afridi caught Kyler Mohammad Rizwan on the fourth ball. Tristan Stubbs scored 76, and Simon Harmer scored 2 runs. Debutant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":89015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31828,24771],"class_list":["post-89008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-muthusamy","tag-pak-vs-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008","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=89008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89016,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008\/revisions\/89016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}