END OF OVER:56 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | PAK: 190/10
- Hasan Ali11 (13b)
- Duanne Olivier15-3-59-5
- Dale Steyn15-4-34-2
5.25pm So, 15 wickets indeed do fall on the second day as well, just like they did on Wednesday. Pakistan were coasting at tea, but the spell from Olivier after tea has turned this game around completely again, and totally within the grasp of the hosts.
KBS : "Oh! You won't post this. But, I predicted this when Imam was on 50. A target of 150! SA will get it huffing and puffing, for the loss of 7 wickets." --- Close enough, I suppose!
Waqar Durrani: "Faisalabad... 1996 I guess. Pakistan needed 146 in last innings against SA. Pollock / Donald knocked us out for 86 although there was a local holiday announced anticipatory. Can Amir / Afridi return the favor here?"
Sarim Siddiqui: "If any bowler wants his best bowling figure, he should play against Pakistan. A disappointed Pakistani supporter from Melbourne, Australia."
Sohaib: "Why is it stumps already... we still have 10 overs left for the day, minus 3 for the innings change, meaning still 7 overs to go?" --- Because we had already started playing overtime, and that wicket fell with less than 10 minutes to go for the extra half-hour extension. That's why stumps were drawn. More to do with the slow over-rate by both teams - understandable given the number of overs bowled by seamers
Rehan : "I have a list of changes ready for the next match in case Pakistan team management is looking for solutions. Sarfaraz, Fakhar, Hasan Ali out Rizwan, Faheem, Abbas in"
Asad Rauf: "I don't know much about strategy but should Pakistan consider sending Hassan Ali up the order considering he never got out this match. "
Farhan: "Can someone predict the end of world so i can eat a lot before that :D"
5.38pm That's that for the moment after another eventful day from the SuperSport Park in Centurion. South Africa should fancy their chances of taking a lead in this Test series, but funnier things have happened in cricket. Pakistan won't mind having a bite of the red cherry in the morning session, especially with the weather expected to be cloudy. Join us then for Day 3 tomorrow morning. For the moment, this is Debayan Sen signing off on behalf of Saurabh Somani and Chandan Duorah, with the Day 2 report from Liam Brickhill which will flesh out on its own and tell you all that happened on this dramatic Thursday.
South Africa will start tomorrow requiring 149 to take a 1-0 lead in this three-Test series
Shaheen Shah Afridi c Markram b Olivier 4 (11m 9b 1x4 0x6) SR: 44.44
"Boxing day is the day when price of everything reduced by the big stores so that people could buy expensive things at a cheap price. Boxing is just a symbolic word to represents the extent of prices being reduced after boxing with it." --- Waseem Safder wins this round. The knockout punch, if you will!
Michael: "Boxing Day was once the day on which the servants and tenants went up to the big house to get their Christmas boxes from the lord of the manor."
Sachin: "We can give you Sachin, Dravid, Laxman, Sehwag and Ganguli without any exchange..Even they would play better than current pakistan linup right now.. Indian watching from India" --- Oh, Mister Tendulkar. Fancy seeing you here!
Tahir Bashir: "Alyan Khan! "Boxing Day". Gifts in boxes are kept on designated places for needy people to participate them in happy occasion. They come and collect the boxes/gifts and enjoy"
Babar: "@Aliyan Boxing day refer to the shopping day in Australia post Christmas shopping day, where stores release there stuff at cheap rate, Start from Australia Melbourne boxing day test and now observing around the world as a "boxing day""
END OF OVER:55 | (wicket maiden) | PAK: 185/9
- Shaheen Shah Afridi0 (4b)
- Hasan Ali10 (12b)
- Dale Steyn15-4-34-2
- Duanne Olivier14-3-54-4
Asit Ojha: "There are competing theories for the origins of the term, none of which are definitive.[2] The Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest attestations from Britain in the 1830s, defining it as "the first week-day after Christmas-day, observed as a holiday on which post-men, errand-boys, and servants of various kinds expect to receive a Christmas-box"."
Steyn is ready to go...
Shayaan : "What is the forecast for the next 3 days?" --- Moderate to heavy rainfall, especially on Saturday. Makes it all the more important to remember some of the Pakistan batsmen's shot selection, in hindsight...
Steyn getting some medical attention paid to his right foot. Must have blisters on his toes, based on visual evidence
Talal Dar: "15 wickets on first day. 15 on second. Third day deserves at least 10 or else it will be injustice with third day. "
Three slips, short leg for Afridi. Now one man moving into leg gully too
Zeeshan: "@Wassay - Kohli for entire Pak team would also not be worth the deal... "
Aliyan Khan: "Can somebody tell me why is this called Boxing Day " --- I have heard a few variations, but the one I have heard most often is that it's the day after Christmas, when people open their (gift) boxes and exchange presents as well? Happy to be corrected...
Shan Masood c Maharaj b Steyn 65 (198m 120b 7x4 1x6) SR: 54.16
Masroor : "Sometimes people's feeling gets mixed with the pitch report. How is actually pitch behaving. " --- That's a very good question. It's been hard to predict. The pitch has played alright. Pakistan have lost wickets to poor shots!
Five boundary-riders for Masood now