Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha (second from left) and South Africa captain Donovan Ferreira in the course of the toss for the primary T20I match at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on October 28, 2025. — Fb/@PakistanCricketBoard
After profitable the toss, Pakistan elected to bowl first in opposition to South Africa within the opening conflict of the three-match T20I collection on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Taking part in XIs
Pakistan: Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Babar Azam, Salman Ali Agha (c), Usman Khan (wk), Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed.
South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Tony de Zorzi, Dewald Brevis, Matthew Breetzke, Donovan Ferreira (c), George Linde, Corbin Bosch, Lizaad Williams, Nandre Burger and Lungi Ngidi.
Head-to-head
Pakistan and South Africa have come face-to-face 25 occasions in T20Is, with their head-to-head file hanging in steadiness as the 2 groups are tied with 12 victories every.
Matches: 25Pakistan: 12South Africa: 12No End result: 1Form Information
The 2 groups will enter the collection with related momentum of their favour as Pakistan are recent from the ACC Males’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 heartbreak, throughout which they misplaced to arch-rivals India thrice, together with the historic closing.
The Proteas, then again, suffered their first-ever defeat by the hands of Namibia in worldwide cricket after they misplaced the one-off T20I in opposition to the house facet in Windhoek earlier this month.
Moreover, South Africa suffered a double setback as skilled batter David Miller and quick bowler Gerald Coetzee have each been dominated out of the white-ball collection resulting from accidents.
Notably, the 2 groups final performed a bilateral collection within the shortest format in December final yr, which the house facet, South Africa, gained 2-0 because the third fixture was deserted resulting from rain.
Pakistan: L, W, W, L, W (most up-to-date first)
South Africa: L, A, L, W, L
