South Africa has shown a strong game on Pakistani soil. South Africa has defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets in the second match of the two-match Test series played under WTC 2025-27. With this the series has ended at 1-1. The player of the match in this match was South African spinner Keshav Maharaj, who took seven wickets in the first innings and got 2 wickets in the second innings. 30 runs also came from his bat in this match, which proved important.
Talking about this match played in Rawalpindi, Pakistan team captain Shan Masood won the toss and decided to bat first. Pakistan had scored 333 runs in the first innings. In response, South Africa had scored 404 runs. Pakistan team was behind by about 70 runs in the first innings. After this, Pakistan team again came out to bat but got bundled out for 138 runs.
The South African team got the target of only 73 runs, which South Africa achieved by losing 2 wickets. For Pakistan, three batsmen scored half-centuries in the first innings, including Abdullah Shafiq, Shan Masood and Saud Shakeel. Tristan Stubbs, Tony DiGeorge and Senuran Muthusamy scored half-centuries in the first innings for South Africa.