Lahore (TNS) Pakistan defeated South Africa to win the T20 series 2-1 in Lahore, Babar Azam scored a half-century and played an important role in Pakistan’s victory. After the T20 series, the first match of the 3-match ODI series between Pakistan and South Africa will be played on November 4, the second on November 6 and the last ODI on November 8 in Faisalabad. According to the details, Pakistan surpassed the target of 140 runs set by South Africa for the loss of 6 wickets in 19 overs thanks to Babar Azam’s brilliant batting.<\/p>\n
Babar Azam played an innings of 68 runs off 47 balls with the help of 9 fours, while captain Salman Agha scored 33 runs, Saim Ayub was out for zero, while Sahibzada Farhan managed to score 19 runs.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Pakistan won the toss and decided to field and invited South Africa to bat, after which the visiting team managed to score 139 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. For South Africa, Reza Hendricks scored 34, Bravis 21, captain Ferreira 29, and Corbin Bosh scored 30.<\/p>\n
For Pakistan, Shaheen Shah Afridi took 3 wickets, Faheem Ashraf and Usman Tariq took 2 wickets each, while Salman Mirza and Muhammad Nawaz took one wicket each. 2 changes were made in Pakistan’s playing eleven today, Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed were left out, while Shaheen Shah Afridi and Usman Tariq were given a chance. Usman Tariq made his T20 debut and took 2 wickets. Other players included Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Babar Azam, Hassan Nawaz, Salman Ali Agha, Usman Khan, Muhammad Nawaz and Faheem Ashraf.<\/p>\n
South Africa made 3 changes to the playing XI, dropping Tony de Zorzi, Lungi N’Gidi and Nandre Burger, while replacing them are Lohan Dre Pretorius, Lizard Williams and Ande Semalane.<\/p>\n
In the first T20 match, South Africa defeated Pakistan by 55 runs, while in the second match, Pakistan won\u00a0by\u00a09\u00a0wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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