Pakistan’s skipper Mohammad Rizwan (L) and South Africa’s captain Heinrich Klaasen (R) pictured in the course of the toss of the second T20I on December 13, 2024 on the Centurion Park. — Instagram/therealpcb
Pakistan have received the toss and elected to bat first towards South Africa within the second encounter of the three-match T20I collection on the Centurion Park on Friday.
“We’re going to bat first. Solar is shining. Now we have one change. We did properly within the powerplay, however we did a number of errors. We’re having fun with our time in South Africa,” Pakistan’s skipper Mohammad Rziwan acknowledged after successful the toss.
Proteas skipper Heinrich Klaasen acknowledged he didn’t thoughts bowling first.
“Not at all. It’s a great venue to play,” he stated.
Rizwan and Saim Ayub opened the innings for Pakistan and stored a gentle movement of runs. The skipper’s innings, nonetheless, was short-lived as he fell towards Ottneil Baartman after scoring simply 11 runs from 13 balls.
Ayub was joined by Babar Azam who struck back-to-back two fours. Quickly the powerplay got here to an finish and the scoreboard was ticking at 45/1 for Pakistan.
After the powerplay, the duo continued batting steadily and took Pakistan to 90/1 on the finish of the tenth over with Ayub nearing to a 50 and Babar added 29 runs off 16 balls with three fours and one six.
Taking part in XI
Pakistan: Mohammad Rizwan (captain and wicketkeeper), Babar Azam, Saim Ayub, Usman Khan, Tayyab Tahir, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Jahandad Khan, Haris Rauf and Abrar Ahmed.
South Africa: Reeze Hendricks, Ryan Rickelton Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen (captain and wicketkeeper), Donovan Ferreira, George Linde, Dayyaan Galiem, Ottneil Baartman, Nqaba Peter and Kwena Maphaka.
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