South Africa Beat pakistan in 3rd 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 3rd ONE DAY international match was to be played The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa on 17th 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 3rd 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 3rd 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 343 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of Ab de Villiers who made 128 runs in 108 balls with 12 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 119 runs in 100 balls and H Amla who made 122 runs in 113 balls with 10 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 108 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 344 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but was unable to chase the target of 344 runs and was able to make only 309 runs in 48.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 34 runs with top contributions from S Afridi who made 88 runs in 48 balls with 5 4’s and 7 sixes at the strike rate of 183 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 34 runs and series stands at 2-1 in favor of South Africa with 2 more games to play.

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