Canada Global (Web News) In the 26th and most important match of the ICC World Cup, South Africa defeated Pakistan by one wicket after a sensational match.
South Africa achieved Pakistan’s target of 271 runs at the loss of 9 wickets, Aiden Markram was outstanding by scoring 91 runs. After the defeat by South Africa, it became very difficult for Pakistan to reach the semi-finals, the green shirts have played 6 matches so far. have played and failed in 4. With 3 matches left for Pakistan, the national team will have to rely on other teams to win their remaining matches to reach the semifinals of the green shirts. Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to bat first in the match played at the Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Pakistan’s entire team was bundled out for 270 runs in 46.4 overs, Babar Azam was dismissed with 50 runs and Saud Shakeel got out with 52 runs. In the conversation after the toss, Babar Azam said that we have made two changes in the playing eleven against South Africa. Hasan Ali and Osama Mir are not part of the playing XI, both players are replaced by Wasim Jr and Mohammad Nawaz.
Abdullah Shafiq and Imamul Haq started the innings from Pakistan, but once again the Pakistani opening pair could not give a good start to the team. Abdullah Shafiq scored only 9 runs and returned to the pavilion off Marco Johnson After that, Imam-ul-Haq also became a victim of Johnson by scoring 12 runs off 18 balls.
Pakistan’s third out was Muhammad Rizwan who scored 31 runs and was caught behind the wickets off Coetzee while Iftikhar Ahmed caught Tabriz Shamsi on the boundary trying to hit a six, he scored 21 runs.Captain Babar Azam scored a half-century but he too was caught behind the wickets off the ball of Tabriz Shamsi after scoring 50 runs.
After 5 wickets fell for 141, Shadab Khan and young batsman Saud Shakeel put on a responsible batting partnership, both of them took the team’s score to 225 runs and Shadab was dismissed for 43 runs off 36 balls. Saud Shakeel scored a brilliant half-century but he too returned to the pavilion after scoring 52 runs off 52 balls with 7 fours, besides Mohammad Nawaz 24, Shaheen Afridi 2 and Mohammad Wasim 7. South Africa. On behalf of Tabriz Shamsi took 4 wickets while bowling brilliantly while Marco Johnson took 3 wickets and Coetzee took 2 wickets.
