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South Africa vs Pakistan Scorecard, Match 3, Tri-Series in Pakistan 2025
Result · Feb 12 2025, Wed - 02:30 PM (IST)
SOUTH AFRICA352/5
PAKISTAN355/4
Pakistan won by 6 wickets
CRR:7.24
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Tri-Series in Pakistan 2025 |
| Date: | Feb 12 2025, Wed - 02:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| City: | Karachi |
| Venue: | National Stadium |
| Toss: | South Africa won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Muhammad Rizwan (c) (wk), Salman Ali Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Temba Bavuma (c), Tony de Zorzi, Matthew Breetzke, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Wiaan Mulder, Senuran Muthusamy, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi |
- Pakistan have won their last three men’s ODIs against South Africa to complete a 3-0 series sweep when these two sides last met in December 2024 in South Africa; the only time the Shaheens had a longer winning streak against the Proteas was a six-game run from February 1993 to October 1994.
- South Africa have lost their last five men’s ODIs despite scoring over 270 runs in each of their last two outings; they will be looking to avoid losing six consecutive matches in the format for the first time since a 10-game losing streak between February and August 2004.
- Pakistan lost their last men’s ODI in Pakistan to New Zealand in the ongoing series (8 February 2025), snapping a five-game winning streak in the format; they will be looking to avoid losing back-to-back matches for the first time since November 2024.
- Pakistan have lost three of their last five men’s ODIs at National Stadium, Karachi (W2), with the winning team batting first in four of those five matches; the Shaheens’ 56% win record at the venue (25/45) is their lowest at any venue in Pakistan in the format (min. 10 matches played).
- Pakistan have a collective bowling strike rate of 27.2 in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, the best rate of any full-member side; South Africa bowlers have a strike rate of 35.3 in that span, the fifth best figure.
- South Africa have recorded a collective batting strike rate of over 100 in each of their last two men’s ODIs; they had reached that figure only once in their previous 14 matches in the format.
- Heinrich Klaasen (South Africa) has a batting dot-ball percentage of 39.7% in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, the lowest such rate of any player in that span (min. 100 balls faced).
- Pakistan pair Abdullah Shafique and Saim Ayub have scored 449 runs in men’s ODIs while batting together since the start of 2024, only Sri Lanka’s Avishka Fernando and Pathum Nissanka (751) have scored more runs in a partnership among players from Test playing countries in that span.
- Lungi Ngidi (96) needs four more wickets to become the 13th player to take 100 wickets for South Africa in men’s ODIs; however, he has failed to take any wickets in his last two matches after taking six wickets over his three matches prior.
- Abrar Ahmed (Pakistan) has picked up 12 wickets in five men’s ODIs since his debut in November 2024 and has induced a false connection rate of over 20% in four of those matches; only New Zealand’s Matt Henry has picked up more wickets in the format since Ahmed’s debut (14).