Pakistan Beat South Africa in 4th 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 4th ONE DAY international match was to be played Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa on 21^st 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 4th 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, I Farhat

And South Africa team and 11 was looking like this in this 4th ONE DAY international Match: Justin Ontong, Robin Peterson, AB de Villiers, Rory Kleinveldt, Ryan McLaren, C Ingram, H Amla, David Miller, Aaron Phangiso, Farhaan Behardien, Chris Morris, Kyle Abbott

South Africa batted very well and was able to post total of 234 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with top scores of Ab de Villiers who made 75 runs in 108 balls with 5 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 69 runs in 100 balls and D Miller who made 67 runs in 77 balls with 7 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 235 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but and able to chase the target of 235 runs in 48.4 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and won the game by 3 wickets in hand with top contributions from I farhat who made 93 runs in 144 balls with 8 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 65 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 3 wickets in hand and series stands at 2-2 in favor of none with 1 more game to play.

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