{"id":90551,"date":"2025-11-07T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=90551"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:03:30","slug":"south-africa-defeated-pakistan-by-8-wickets-to-level-series-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/south-africa-defeated-pakistan-by-8-wickets-to-level-series-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets to level series 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAISALABAD: South Africa defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets in the second match of the 3-match<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-sri-lanka-odi-series-pcb-released-ticket-details\/\"> ODI series<\/a> to level the series 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa easily achieved Pakistan&#8217;s target of 270 runs in 40.1 overs for the loss of 2 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>In the match played at the Iqbal Cricket Stadium in Faisalabad, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first against the visiting team South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan scored 269 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. Salman Agha and Mohammad Nawaz scored 69 and 59 runs.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa blew away the Pakistani top order batsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Opener Fakhar Zaman was dismissed for zero, while Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 and 4 runs.<\/p>\n<p>After the fall of 3 wickets, Salman Ali Agha and Saim Ayub batted responsibly and both batsmen scored half-centuries while establishing a partnership.<\/p>\n<p>However, Saim was dismissed for 53 and Salman Ali Agha for 69 runs, while Hussain Talat left the team with a score of 10.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing overs, Muhammad Nawaz and Faheem Ashraf batted responsibly. Nawaz was dismissed for 59 and Faheem Ashraf for 28 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan scored 269 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa easily achieved Pakistan&#8217;s target of 270 runs in the 41st over and won by 8 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>For South Africa, Quinton de Kock remained unbeaten on 123 runs, while De Zorzi scored 76.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, Mathew Breetzke was unbeaten on 17 runs. For Pakistan, Mohammad Wasim and Faheem Ashraf took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>After South Africa&#8217;s victory in the second ODI, the three-match series has been leveled at 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAISALABAD: South Africa defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets in the second match of the 3-match ODI series to level the series 1-1. South Africa easily achieved Pakistan&#8217;s target of 270 runs in 40.1 overs for the loss of 2 wickets. In the match played at the Iqbal Cricket Stadium in Faisalabad, Pakistan won the toss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":87746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2599],"class_list":["post-90551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90551","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=90551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90552,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90551\/revisions\/90552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}