Pakistan has defeated South Africa by 7 wickets in the third ODI match. Pakistan has won the series 2-1. In this match played in Faisalabad, the South African team was reduced to just 143 runs. In reply, Pakistan team easily won the match with 7 wickets remaining in the 26th over. Babar Azam was a flop in this entire series, where his highest score was 27 runs.

When the South African team came to bat first, at one time they had scored 72 runs without losing any wicket. Luan Drie Pretorius and Quinton de Kock were moving the scoreboard forward at a run rate of around 6. As soon as Pretorius’ wicket fell on the score of 71, the South African batting collapsed like a house of cards.

One for 72, two for 87 runs and within no time the South African team had lost 5 wickets till the score was 117. Within the next 26 runs, South Africa also lost its remaining 5 wickets. The highest scorer of the African team was Quinton de Kock, who scored 53 runs. Pretorius contributed 39 runs.

While chasing the target of 144 runs, Pakistan also lost its first wicket early. Fakhar Zaman was out without opening the account. Sam Ayyub was the hero of the victory of the Pakistan team, who played a half-century of 77 runs. Mohammad Rizwan returned unbeaten after scoring 32 runs.

Babar Azam flopped again

Babar Azam’s bat remained silent in the entire ODI series against South Africa. In the third match, he was out after scoring only 27 runs. He scored only 11 runs in the second ODI and only 7 runs in the first ODI match. Babar could score only 45 runs after playing 3 matches in the entire series.

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South Africa has scored 263 runs against Pakistan in the first ODI. Despite the opening partnership of 98 runs, South Africa could not reach a big score and was reduced to 263. Quinton de Kock and Luan Dry Pretorius scored half-centuries. Pakistan’s Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed wreaked havoc on the South African batsmen. Both of them dismissed three batsmen each.

Quinton de Kock and Luan Drie Pretorius made a partnership of 98 runs for the first wicket. Pretorius was out after scoring 57 runs. Whereas De Kock has returned to the ODI team after 2 years, he played a half-century of 63 runs as soon as he came back. Apart from him, captain Matthew Britzke contributed 42 runs.

South Africa’s strength came out in 72 runs

The South African team had a great start and at one time had scored 191 runs at the loss of only 3 wickets. But after that 7 wickets of Africa fell for just 72 runs. It was good for Corbin Bosch, who played an inning of 41 runs and took the team’s score beyond 260, otherwise it was looking difficult for the team to score even 240 runs. The last 4 wickets of the South African team fell within just 35 runs.

havoc of pakistani bowlers

The most successful bowler for Pakistan was Naseem Shah. He took 3 wickets for just 40 runs in 9.1 overs. Abrar Ahmed also took 3 wickets, but his economy rate was worse than Naseem. Sam Ayyub seems like he is becoming one of the main all-rounders of the team and is proving to be a consistent wicket taker and bowler. He took 2 wickets in this match also. Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Nawaz took one wicket each.

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