By Admin 
South Africa defeated Pakistan badly in the second ODI. Nandre Berger did wonders in bowling, while Quinton de Kock thrashed Pakistan bowlers in batting. Batting first, Pakistan had set a target of 270 runs for South Africa to win, which the visiting team achieved in 40.1 overs and won by 8 wickets.
Quinton de Kock’s 22nd ODI century
While chasing the target, Quinton De Kock scored a century, this is the 22nd ODI century of his career. He has come third among the batsmen who have scored the most centuries in ODIs for South Africa.
Luan-Dre Pretorius and Quinton de Kock had made a partnership of 81 runs for the first wicket, Pretorius was out after scoring 46 runs in the 12th over. Mohammad Wasim made him his victim. After this there was a partnership of 153 runs between De Kock and Tony De Zorzi.
Tony De Zorzi scored 76 runs in 63 balls, in this innings he hit 3 sixes and 9 fours. Quinton de Kock scored unbeaten 123 runs in 119 balls, in this innings he hit 7 sixes and 8 fours.
8 players of Pakistan bowled
South African batsmen worsened the condition of Pakistan’s main bowlers, due to which Afridi had to bowl to his part-timer bowlers. Let us tell you that a total of 8 Pakistani players bowled.
Shaheen Afridi bowled a spell of 7 overs, he did not get any wicket. He gave 41 runs. Naseem Shah, Faheem Ashraf also did not get any wicket. The only wicket in the innings was taken by Mohammad Wasim, who spent 48 runs in the spell of 8 overs.
Deadly bowling by Nandre Berger and Nakaba Peter.
Earlier, South African bowlers had wreaked havoc on Pakistan. Nandre Berger had already taken a big wicket in the form of Fakhar Zaman on the third ball of the over. After this, Berger scattered Pakistan’s top order by sending Babar Azam (11) and Mohammad Rizwan (4) to the pavilion cheaply. After 3 wickets fell at 22, a partnership of 92 runs between Sam Ayub and Agha Salman took care of Pakistan.
Ayub played a good inning of 53 runs and Salman played a good inning of 69 runs, after which Mohammad Nawaz scored an important half-century to help Pakistan reach a respectable score. Nawaz scored 59 runs in 59 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 3 fours. Pakistan had scored 269 runs while batting first.
Nandre Burger took 4 wickets for 46 runs in his spell of 10 overs. Nakaba Peter took 3 wickets after spending 55 runs in 8 overs. Corbin Bosch took 2 wickets for 58 runs in 10 overs. The 3-match ODI series is now tied at 1-1. The deciding match of the series will be played on Saturday, 8 November.