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 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.

On Monday, October 20, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced the name of Shaheen Shah Afridi as the ODI captain in place of Mohammad Rizwan. This news shocked everyone as to why Rizwan was suddenly removed from the captaincy. Now a report has revealed that performance is not the reason behind snatching the captaincy from Rizwan. Rather, its connections are linked to betting companies.

The reason for snatching the captaincy from Mohammad Rizwan has been revealed in the report of Times of India. According to the report, when Rizwan refused to promote betting companies, PCB removed him from the captaincy. PCB wanted Rizwan to promote these companies, but Rizwan stuck to his principles and refused to do so.

Source related to PCB confirmed!

This was confirmed in the report quoting a PCB source. The source said, “Mohammad Rizwan had told the Pakistan Cricket Board that he would not promote these betting companies, which was the main reason for his removal from the captaincy. He was against the cooperation between betting companies and PCB.”

However, when PCB announced the selection of Shaheen Shah Afridi as the captain before the ODI series against South Africa, they did not give the reason for the removal of Rizwan, even his name was not mentioned.

“At a meeting of the selection committee, which also included Pakistan’s limited overs head coach Mike Hesson, it was decided to appoint Shaheen as the captain of Pakistan’s ODI team against South Africa,” the PCB said in its statement.

Mohammad Rizwan is a staunch Muslim

This is not the first time that Rizwan has taken such a decision. This year itself, while playing in the CPL (Caribbean Premier League), he had refused to wear the jersey of the team (St Kitts and Nevis Patriots) which had the ‘logo’ of the betting company on it, even though it was the main sponsor of the team. Rizwan never even shakes hands with female fans, it is because he follows the principles of Islam that he refuses to promote these companies.