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Pakistan vs South Africa Scorecard, 2nd Test, South Africa vs Pakistan 2024/2025
Result · Jan 03 2025, Fri - 02:00 PM (IST)
SOUTH AFRICA615, 58/0
PAKISTAN194, 478 f/o
South Africa won by 10 wickets
CRR:8.09
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Player Of The Series
Match Info
| Series: | Pakistan in South Africa 2024/2025 |
| Date: | Jan 03 2025, Fri - 02:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | South Africa |
| City: | Cape Town |
| Venue: | World Sports Betting Newlands Cricket Ground |
| Toss: | South Africa won the toss and elected to bat. |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Wiaan Mulder, Tristan Stubbs, Temba Bavuma (c), David Bedingham, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Kwena Maphaka |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Shan Masood (c), Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Muhammad Rizwan (wk), Salman Ali Agha, Aamir Jamal, Mir Hamza, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas |
- South Africa have won 12 of their last 13 men’s Tests at home against Pakistan (L1), including each of their last eight; the Proteas’ only defeat in that span was a five-wicket loss in January 2007 at St George’s Park.
- Pakistan have lost each of their last four men’s Tests away from home, more than they lost across their 10 such fixtures prior to that span (W8 L2); the last time they recorded a longer losing run on the road in the format was a seven-match span from December 2018 to August 2020.
- South Africa have won their last six men’s Tests; the last and only time the Proteas recorded a longer winning run in the format was a nine-match span from March 2002 to May 2003.
- Pakistan scored 43.2% of their runs from boundaries in men’s Tests in 2024, the second lowest rate of any team (Zimbabwe – 43%); although, their batting dot ball rate (69.7%) was the second best of any team (England – 64.6%).
- South Africa recorded a batting false shot rate of 21.3% in men’s Tests in 2024, the second best of any team (Afghanistan – 19.1%); in addition, only Bangladesh (6) logged more stumpings when fielding than the Proteas (5).
- South Africa recorded the second-best bowling average (23.1) and economy rate (3.2) of any team in men’s Tests in 2024 (min. 3 matches); Australia surpassed them in each of those categories (23 average, 3.1 economy).
- Mohammad Abbas (97) is three away from taking 100 wickets for Pakistan in men’s Tests; he’s taken 17 wickets at an average of 27.6 across his last nine Test innings, including career best figures of 6-54 against South Africa last time out.
- Kyle Verreynne (960) is 40 away from scoring 1,000 runs for South Africa in men’s Tests; although, he’s scored fewer than 10 runs in five of his last six Test innings (105* v Sri Lanka in December 2024).
- Saud Shakeel (Pakistan) scored 44% of his 544 runs from singles in men’s Tests in 2024, the highest rate of any player last year (min. 115 runs scored).
- Temba Bavuma (South Africa) has won all his six men’s Tests played in South Africa as captain; only Shaun Pollock (W10 D3) has made more appearances in the country as captain in the history of the format without losing.