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Saim Ayub completed his half-century in 29 balls.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam has become the highest run-scorer in T-20 International. He left behind former Indian captain Rohit Sharma.
In the second T20 match played at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan defeated South Africa by 9 wickets. The South African team, which won the first T-20 match, could score only 110 runs while batting first. In reply, Pakistan achieved the target by scoring 112 runs losing one wicket in 13.1 overs. With this, the three T-20 match series is tied at 1-1.
Babar scored 11 runs In this match, Babar Azam scored 11 runs on 18 balls. He needed only 9 runs to break the record. Now Babar has 4,234 runs in his name, while Rohit Sharma has 4,231 runs in his name. Rohit Sharma, who has retired from T-20 International cricket, is at second place and Virat Kohli is at third place. Virat has 4,188 runs in his name. Both of them had retired from this format after the 2024 T20 World Cup.
By scoring 9 runs, Babar became the highest run scoring batsman in T20.
Dewald Brevis scored the highest score of 25 runs. Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be completely correct. South African batsmen failed to play big innings. Dewald Brewis top scored with 25 runs, while Donovan Ferreira contributed 25 runs, George Linde 9 and Ottenil Bartman contributed 12 runs.
Ashraf took 4 wickets and Mirza took 3 wickets. Faheem Ashraf bowled brilliantly for Pakistan and took 4 wickets. Salman Mirza took 3 wickets for only 14 runs in 4 overs and his economy rate was 3.50. Apart from this, Naseem Shah took 2 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs, while Abrar Ahmed took 1 wicket for 26 runs in 4 overs.
Faheem Ashraf took 4 wickets for 23 runs in 3.2 overs.
Saim Ayub scored his 5th half century Chasing the target, Pakistan’s Saim Ayub and Sahibzada Farhan gave a great start. Ayub scored unbeaten 71 runs on 38 balls, which included 6 fours and 5 sixes. This was the fifth half-century of his T20 international career. This is his second half-century against South Africa. He also made his career best score of 98 runs* against the same team.
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