Pakistan Beat South Africa in 1st T 20 of series,2013

Pakistan was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 International in South Africa in 2013. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 3 and 4. The 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Kings mead, Durban, South Africa on 1st Mar,2013. Pakistan holds the upper hand as they are more experienced team and playing very well as well.

Pakistan won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 1st T 20 international match: Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal, Nasir Jamshed, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Asad Ali, Zulfiqar Babar

And South Africa team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st T 20 international Match: Justin Ontong, Robin Peterson, AB de Villiers, Rory Kleinveldt, Ryan McLaren, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Henry Davids, David Miller, Aaron Phangiso, Farhaan Behardien, Chris Morris, Kyle Abbott

Pakistan batted well and was able to post total of 180 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of N Jamshed who made 40 runs in 20 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls and U Akmal who made 30 runs in 10 balls with 3 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 300 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was needed to score 181 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

South Africa batted well but was unable to chase the target of 181 runs and was only able to make 165 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and lost the game 15 runs with top contributions from Ab De Villiers who made 40 runs in 20 balls with 1 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 15 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of Pakistan with 2 more games to play.

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