The T-20 international whose income is decided to donate to Pakistan for its flood relief was won by South Africa. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. Lower batting order failed to score runs. A Razzak who was expected to score runs was failed to make good contribution.
Captain Shahid Afridi played quick fiery inning of 25 runs with three sixes on 7 balls. Misbah remained the top scorer with 27 runs. LL Tsotsobe took three wicket and captain J Botha also took three wickets. JA Morkel and M Morkel took 1 wicket each. Pakistan able to score 119 runs and they got all out with 1 ball remaining in the inning.
SA opened the chase for 120 runs target set by Pakistan. LL Bosman was the first to go at the score of 16 runs after making just 2 runs. AB De Villiers was the second to go without scoring on the same total. S Akhtar took both wickets. SA was three down on 26 runs.
Pakistan was back in the game after taking three top wickets for just 26 runs but after that JP Duminy and CA Ingram scored 66 runs for the fourth wicket and this was the new record for the fourth wicket partnership by SA against Pakistan.
South Africa achieved the target in 18.2 over and gets the victory for them. In the 2 match series they got the lead of 1-0 against Pakistan.
Tags: A Razzak, Duminy, Shahid Afridi, South Africa
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