Pakistan Beat South Africa in 2nd ODI of series,2013

Pakistan was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY 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 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played Super Sport Park, Centurion, South Africa on 15th Mar 2013. Pakistan holds the upper hand as they are more experienced team and playing very well as well.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international match: Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal, Nasir Jamshed, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Irfan, M Ul Haq, Asad Ali, Zulfiqar Babar

And South Africa team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: Justin Ontong, Robin Peterson, AB de Villiers, Rory Kleinveldt, Ryan McLaren, C Ingram, Henry Davids, David Miller, Aaron Phangiso, Farhaan Behardien, Chris Morris, Kyle Abbott

South Africa did not bat well and was able to post total of only 191 runs in 43.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of Farhan B who made 58 runs in 82 balls with 5 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls and Robin P who made 44 runs in 67 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 66 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 192 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well and was able to chase the target of 192 runs in 39.2 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and won the game by 6 wickets in hand with top contributions from M UL Haq who made 57 runs in 35 balls with 3 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 86 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 6 wickets in hand and series stands at 1-1 in favor of none with 3 more games to play.

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