Player of the Match
Player of the Match
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    50.5 has Shafique been strangled down leg?! South Africa think they have their man, but Shafique and the umpire are unmoved! We go upstairs! A rather innocuous delivery, pitching on middle stump and then turning down leg with the angle. Shafique wants to tickle this fine and SA reckon he has tickled it straight into the keeper's gloves. The ball is close to the bat, but the ball is also very close to the thigh pad. The first replay does suggest the ball may have clipped the thigh pad. The replay from the reverse angle says as much. But before that, there is a spike on UltraEdge when the ball is next to the bat. So, ball on bat before ball on thigh pad. Decision overturned and South Africa, out of nothing, have a timely wicket! 146/2
    12.3 bowled 'im! Make that 993. Shortens his length a bit. The ball drifts in as Imam goes back to defend but then it turns sharply to beat the outside edge and hit the off stump 35/1
    73.3 No hundred for Masood! Maharaj tosses it up outside off. Masood gets low and goes for the sweep but it's a half-hearted shot and results in a top edge. Jansen moves back a bit at square leg and pouches it 212/4
    55.6 oh my days - that is a catch and a half, and Babar is outta here! Stunned silence from those in Rawalpindi! This is tossed up generously on a fullish length on middle and off. Babar lunges forward but is not quite to the pitch of the ball. That means the ball pops up ever so slightly and that is all de Zorzi needs at silly mid off. He springs to his right and picks it up one-handed and inches off the turf. Babar cannot believe what has happened, and SA have two wickets in quick succession! 167/3
    107.5 edged and taken! Maharaj has four, and Pakistan now seven down! A bit of redemption for Markram too, who endured a tough time at slip yesterday. This is slanted across on a full length from around the wicket. Shakeel goes searching for it away from his body and the ball continues with the arm to kiss the outside edge. Floats through to Markram, who gobbles up the chance at first slip, albeit not with the conviction usually associated with him. Matters little, though, and SA have their second big wicket in quick succession! 321/7
    84.5 The new ball has done the job but not in the manner you might have imagined. Was a length ball that came in sharply and kept a touch low. Rizwan hopped and got hit on the knee roll. The umpire didn't take long to raise his finger but Rizwan, after a chat with Shakeel, wants to review it. It pitched well outside off and hit Rizwan in front of middle. The ball-tracking shows it would have hit leg stump. By the time the TV umpire makes his decision, Rizwan is already near the boundary line 246/5
    105.5 Huge, huge appeal and given. Oh, that looks plumb. Will Agha review? He does. If there is not bat, I think he's done. Maharaj slides that on a length on middle. Agha plays for the turn, there isn't any and is struck on the pad at shin-height. No bat, impact in line and the ball would have gone on to crash into leg stump. South Africa have finally struck on day 2. 316/6
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    109.3 oh dear - that is an agricultural hack across the line, and Shaheen bites the dust! Maharaj has five! Slowed up on a length just outside off. The ball goes up above Shaheen's eye-line and he cannot resist the temptation thereafter. Tries to smash it into next week and loses his shape completely. The ball squirms past his flailing blade and then thuds into the stumps. Pakistan eight down, and Maharaj, back in the fold after an injury, is back doing what he does best too! 323/8
    113.1 nicked and Markram snares another! Maharaj continues denting Pakistan! Lots of fizz and lots of revs on this. Dips on Sajid on a fullish length outside off and entices him into a loose drive away from the body. The ball flies off the outside edge and Markram accepts that offering gleefully at first slip. Pakistan one wicket away from being bowled out under 350! 329/9
    113.4 a wild slog this time, and that will be that for Pakistan in the first innings! Asif wanted to chance his arm and goes after this full ball outside off as well. The only problem, though, is that mid-way, he perhaps stops watching the ball. Swings at it rather aimlessly and misses the ball by a mile, with the ball then crashing into middle and leg. Asif dismissed for four in his debut Test innings, and SA have wrapped up this Pakistan innings for 333! 333/10
    Extras
    11 (b 6, lb 3, nb 2)
    TOTAL
    333 all out (113.4 Overs, RR: 2.92)
    Fall of wickets: 1-35 (Imam-ul-Haq, 12.3 ov), 2-146 (Abdullah Shafique, 50.5 ov), 3-167 (Babar Azam, 55.6 ov), 4-212 (Shan Masood, 73.3 ov), 5-246 (Mohammad Rizwan, 84.5 ov), 6-316 (Salman Agha, 105.5 ov), 7-321 (Saud Shakeel, 107.5 ov), 8-323 (Shaheen Shah Afridi, 109.3 ov), 9-329 (Sajid Khan, 113.1 ov), 10-333 (Asif Afridi, 113.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    K Rabada1826013.3300
    M Jansen2065802.902
    KA Maharaj42.4510272.3900
    SR Harmer253752300
    S Muthusamy401704.2500
    AK Markram40120300
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    20.4 oh dear - what have you done, Aiden Markram?! Sajid dangles the carrot outside off and Markram bites. He has been going after those sorts of deliveries to be fair, but he gets done in the flight just enough to shank this. Has to reach out for this length ball outside off and he drags this straight to Shakeel at long on. Pakistan upbeat; Markram distraught as he walks back after a promising start! 54/2
    8.2 Gone! Shaheen has a wicket and Pindi celebrates. On a length shaping away from Rickelton ever so late at 130kph. He pokes at it, gets a thin edge and Rizwan does the rest. 22/1
    73.4 Trapped in the crease, struck on the pad and Stubbs falls. That looks plumb. Stubbs has reviewed, more in hope than anything else, I feel. Slider at 90.3kph on middle and leg, Stubbs plays the length and stays back looking to flick this. He misses and replays confirm the ball would have crashed into leg stump. Stubbs falls for 76 and Afridi now has four. 204/6
    57.5 rapped on the pad, and Asif Afridi is off on a celebrappeal, only to then look back and see the umpire unmoved! Pakistan have only one review left, and they are going to use it here! This is fired in on a length just outside off. de Zorzi plays the trajectory and goes back to a ball he could have been forward to. Gets trapped on the crease and gets hurried on the stroke too. Pinned in on the front leg but the question is where this struck him. Was it outside off? Nope. Not outside off. Impact is bang in line with off stump, and Ball Tracking has the ball smashing into the stumps. Asif Afridi, all of 38 years old, has a Test wicket on his debut, and this could be a big moment in the game! 167/3
    59.3 edged and snaffled up by Salman! Asif has two! Back of a length just outside off and this seems to kick up after drifting in. Brevis goes following it and does so with hard hands, meaning the outside edge flies to slip. Salman takes it sharply to his right and Brevis trudges off for a four-ball duck! 171/4
    65.4 Edged and Pakistan have a wicket early on day three. Slows up the length ball just outside off at 86kph, Verreynne goes pushing at it, gets a thin edge and Rizwan completes a comfortable catch. Three strikes for Asif Afridi, and Pakistan are now into the South African bowlers. 185/5
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    75.5 A maiden five-wicket haul for Asif Afridi on debut... at 38! What a story, what a bowler. Another lbw appeal and the umpire's finger is up in a jiffy. Harmer has reviewed, but that looks absolutely plumb. Darted in on middle, Harmer goes for a reverse, misses. There is no bat and tracker confirms the ball would have thudded in to middle and leg stump. Afridi is swamped by his team-mates as he celebrates his five-for. Top stuff. 210/7
    84.4 Huge appeal for lbw... The umpire says no. Pretty sure that is going onto hit the stumps, but is this outside the line? Noman is convinced and Shan Masood has reviewed. That was pushed quicker just outside off, breaching Jansen's defences to strike his pad. No bat, on we go. What does the ball tracker say? Oh, the impact is in line, and the ball is going on to thud into off and middle stump. Noman strikes early in his spell and South Africa are now eight down. 235/8
    99.6 Tailender's itch, Ramiz calls it. Again, rather well. An against-the-run-of-play shot attempted by Maharaj. He charged down early, took the invite sent by the flighted ball - outside off, from around the wicket... found himself in Noman's land and swung through air, trying to inside out, on the up and against the spin. Little to no celebration 306/9
    119.3 Pakistan finally have a wicket! And Asif Afridi finishes with six wickets on debut. Floated on leg stump, Rabada looks to clear long-on, for once he does not get enough power behind it and long-on takes a comfortable catch diving forward. Rabada is distraught but his 71 has given South Africa a massive 71-run lead. 404/10
    Extras
    13 (b 5, lb 4, nb 4)
    TOTAL
    404 all out (119.3 Overs, RR: 3.38)
    Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Ryan Rickelton, 8.2 ov), 2-54 (Aiden Markram, 20.4 ov), 3-167 (Tony de Zorzi, 57.5 ov), 4-171 (Dewald Brevis, 59.3 ov), 5-185 (Kyle Verreynne, 65.4 ov), 6-204 (Tristan Stubbs, 73.4 ov), 7-210 (Simon Harmer, 75.5 ov), 8-235 (Marco Jansen, 84.4 ov), 9-306 (Keshav Maharaj, 99.6 ov), 10-404 (Kagiso Rabada, 119.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    Shaheen Shah Afridi2629513.6500
    Noman Ali2839223.2804
    Asif Afridi34.367962.2800
    Sajid Khan29311914.100
    Agha Salman20100500
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    3.6 Big lbw appeal. Bat first or pad? Ump thinks pad, gives it lbw. Early review from Imam. Length ball landed around middle and leg (turns out it was off), straightened a touch... beat the inside edge by a distance. The front leg was slightly slanted to the right and the bat was angled slightly towards mid-on. The gap was found. Hit a touch high on the front pad. Still good enough to go on and clip leg, Hawk-Eye says 12/1
    6.1 Edge, taken at slip! Huge smiles on Rabada's face and those of his team-mates. A young fan is shocked, poster unfurls off the hands, but she goes 'ooooo' and is processing her emotion with a smile. Probably before the potential sadness hits. The front-foot planting Shafique has to walk back. He tried to defend to mid-off or extra cover, angled the bat too but the length ball hit the outer-part of the sticker and went straight to gully 16/3
    5.6 Yep, salmon trout. Masood has a chat, prolly uses his captain-and-top-order-bat prerogative of taking a review. Was a length ball, fuller side, that landed touch outside off and skidded through... with the angle. Masood camped on the back foot and tried to drive through mid-on. Got jammed feet and beaten all ends up. Hawk-Eye shows three reds. One of the more painful five-ball ducks 16/2
    35.5 Oh that looks plumb and up goes the finger! This one turned back into Babar after pitching around off to go past the inside edge. Babar reviews. UltraEdge confirms there was no bat. Pitched off, spun back in and was crashing into middle stump, as per ball-tracking, and Babar goes, taking a review with him. South Africa remove the big threat of Babar Azam in the first over of the day! Babar stayed back to one that was possibly too full. Stayed low as well 96/5
    20.1 Edged and gone! Harmer has and just like that, Shakeel falls. Gives some generous flight on the 79.7kph delivery just outside off. Shakeel looks to force this through the offside, but is undone by the extra bounce. Gets a thick outside edge and Markram at first slip does the rest 60/4
    39.4 Loops up to short leg and Harmer has five! On a length around middle and off and spinning in, Rizwan pressed forward to defend. Again it's an inside edge onto his pads and it pops up nicely for de Zorzi to take an easy grab. Harmer now one short of 1000 First Class wickets as well and Pakistan have lost their overnight batters 105/6
    47.5 Maharaj breaks through in his first over! It's the arm ball and Agha looks to cut and ends up chopping on! A fighting knock from Agha, but it was always going to be a matter of time 129/9
    41.1 Harmer nicks him off! Six for him now, 1000 in his FC career. Full outside off, spinning away and there's a faint edge that Verreynne pouches with good reflexes. Harmer is running through Pakistan this morning! 105/7
    42.1 direct hit with the bowler with a collision involved. Looks like Shaheen is gone!. Rickelton was quick to gather the ball and throw it at the stumps, but Shaheen ran into him while trying to make his ground. The ball crashed the stumps before the collision, and of course, before Shaheen stumbled into the crease. Agha looked to block and got an inside edge onto his pads and it dropped in front on the leg side. Rickleton ran in from midwicket, collected and nailed his throw 105/8
    49.3 It's all over! South Africa need 68 runs to win the second Test. Maharaj tosses this one up on off at 82kph and gets it to spin sharply away from Sajid, who jumps down the track, looks for an ungainly swipe and misses. Kyle Verreynne whips off the bails in a flash. Pakistan have lost 6 for 44 on the fourth morning and are bowled out for 138 in 49.3 overs. 138/10
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    TOTAL
    138 all out (49.3 Overs, RR: 2.78)
    Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Imam-ul-Haq, 3.6 ov), 2-16 (Shan Masood, 5.6 ov), 3-16 (Abdullah Shafique, 6.1 ov), 4-60 (Saud Shakeel, 20.1 ov), 5-96 (Babar Azam, 35.5 ov), 6-105 (Mohammad Rizwan, 39.4 ov), 7-105 (Noman Ali, 41.1 ov), 8-105 (Shaheen Shah Afridi, 42.1 ov), 9-129 (Salman Agha, 47.5 ov), 10-138 (Sajid Khan, 49.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    K Rabada1133813.4503
    SR Harmer2055062.500
    KA Maharaj11.313422.9500
    S Muthusamy401102.7500
    M Jansen31501.6600

Match Details

Toss

Pakistan , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

2-match series drawn 1-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

10.00 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 17.00

Match days

20,21,22,23 October 2025 (5-day match)

Test debut

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

South Africa 12, Pakistan 0

Close of Play

  • Mon, 20 Oct - day 1 - Pakistan 1st innings 259/5 (Saud Shakeel 42*, Agha Salman 10*, 91 ov)
  • Tue, 21 Oct - day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 185/4 (T Stubbs 68*, K Verreynne 10*, 65 ov)
  • Wed, 22 Oct - day 3 - Pakistan 2nd innings 94/4 (Babar Azam 49*, Mohammad Rizwan 16*, 35 ov)
  • Thu, 23 Oct - day 4 - South Africa 2nd innings 73/2 (12.3 ov) - end of match

Match Notes

South Africa 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st64AK MarkramRD Rickelton
2nd1T StubbsRD Rickelton
3rd8RD RickeltonT de Zorzi