South Africa Beat pakistan in 1st ODI of Bilateral 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 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein, South Africa on 10th 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 bowl first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 1st 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 1st 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 batted well and was able to post total of 315 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of C Ingram who made 105 runs in 104 balls with 10 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 101 runs in 100 balls and Farhan B who made 34 runs in 14 balls with 3 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 243 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 316 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but was unable to chase the target of 316 runs and was only able to make 190 runs in 36.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 125 runs with top contributions from M UL Haq who made 38 runs in 44 balls with 4 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 86 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 125 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of South Africa with 4 more games to play.

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