Pakistan captain Shan Masood performs a shot throughout second Check towards South Africa in Newlands, Cape City, January 6, 2025. — Fb/@PakistanCricketBoard
Pakistan might have misplaced their check collection in South Africa 2-0, however captain Shan Masood noticed sufficient from his facet to consider there are higher days forward as they held their very own for lengthy intervals in difficult situations.
South Africa received the primary check in Pretoria by two wickets regardless of being lowered to 99-8 chasing 148 on a troublesome floor, earlier than a extra complete 10 wicket win in Cape City on Monday.
However even of their newest defeat, Pakistan confirmed struggle as they scored 478 following on of their second innings, led by Masood’s 145.
“There were lots of good things (in the series),” Masood mentioned. “Knowing we did really well in (Pretoria) but didn’t close it out. Even here, we didn’t start off well with ball and bat.”
“We conceded too many runs initially, then we folded with the bat (in their first innings) on a really nice surface. But then the fightback, we made our highest score against South Africa in test cricket. Individually, people stepped up.”
Masood will rue the very fact his facet allowed South Africa to attain an enormous 615 of their first innings, which meant the vacationers had been at all times chasing the sport.
Not that it’s something new, Pakistan have performed properly in patches just lately but in addition underperformed below stress. Masood hopes they are often extra constant of their upcoming two-test residence collection towards West Indies that begins on Jan. 17.
“We need to learn how to win the crucial moments,” Masood mentioned. “We bounced back well against England (to win the series 2-1 in October last year). With our backs against the wall, we did well.
“However we have to discover ways to land the primary punch. We’ve lots of younger cricketers who will be taught, and fortuitously we go straight into one other collection with West Indies. Loads of people on this staff have stepped up when required.”
South Africa made gentle work of a modest goal of 58 to say victory towards Pakistan by 10 wickets at Newlands on Monday, wrapping up the collection 2-0 inside 4 days of the second and remaining check.
South Africa have received their final seven checks in a row, their second finest run of victories behind a nine-game successful streak between 2002-2003. It’s excellent preparation for his or her look within the World Check Championship remaining towards Australia at Lord’s from June 11-15.
