South Africa Beat pakistan in 5th 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 5th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Willowmoore Park, Benoni, South Africa on 24th 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 5th ONE DAY international match: Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal, Nasir Jamshed, K Akmal, 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 5th 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

Pakistan did not bat well and was able to post total of only 205 runs in 49.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of K Akmal who made 48 runs in 51 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls and Y khan who made 29 runs in 58 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 50 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was needed to score 206 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

South Africa batted well and was able to chase the target of 206 runs in 44 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and won the game by 6 wickets in hand with top contributions from Ab de Villiers who made 95 runs in 111 balls with 9 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 86 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 6 wickets in hand and series ends at 3-2 in favor of South Africa and S A have won the series.

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