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Pakistan vs South Africa Scorecard, 1st ODI, South Africa vs Pakistan 2024/2025
Result · Dec 17 2024, Tue - 05:30 PM (IST)
1st ODI, - Boland Park, Paarl, South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA239/9
PAKISTAN242/7
Pakistan won by 3 wickets
CRR:4.89
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Pakistan in South Africa 2024/2025 |
| Date: | Dec 17 2024, Tue - 05:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | South Africa |
| City: | Paarl |
| Venue: | Boland Park |
| Toss: | South Africa won the toss and elected to bat. |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Tony de Zorzi, Ryan Rickelton, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Ottniel Baartman, Tabraiz Shamsi, Andile Phehlukwayo |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan (c) (wk), Kamran Ghulam, Salman Ali Agha, Irfan Khan Niazi, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed |
- Pakistan won two of their last three men’s ODI bilateral series against South Africa (L1) after losing all seven series previously; South Africa have won 52 total matches against Pakistan, only behind Australia (55) for most wins against any opponent.
- Pakistan have won seven of their last eight multi-game bilateral series in men’s ODIs (L1), including each of their last four; they will be looking to win five consecutive such series for the first time since a six-series winning streak from January to December 2011.
- South Africa lost their last men’s ODI bilateral series in South Africa 1-2 to India in December 2023, after being undefeated in three previous home series (W2 D1); they will be looking to avoid losing back-to-back series at home for the first time in the history of the format.
- South Africa lost their last men’s ODI at Boland Park by 78 runs against India (21 December 2023), snapping a five-game winning streak and they have never lost back-to-back matches at the venue; Pakistan have won two of their three matches at the venue (L1) but their one loss was against South Africa (16 December 2002).
- Pakistan have restricted the opposition to 4.9 runs per over in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, the best rate among Test playing countries (min. 4 matches played); it is their best such rate in a calendar year since 2018 (4.8).
- South Africa bowlers have induced a false connection rate of 30.6% in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, the best rate among Test playing countries (min. 4 matches played); Pakistan are fourth with a rate of 29%.
- Andile Phehlukwayo (96) is four wickets away from becoming the 13th player to take 100 wickets in men’s ODIs for South Africa; Phehlukwayo has picked up at least one wicket in seven out of the last eight matches that that he has bowled in in the format.
- Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan) has taken 2.3 catches per innings in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024 (14 catches in six matches); only Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim has taken more catches per innings (3.3 – 13 catches in 4 matches).
- Since the start of 2023, Heinrich Klaasen (South Africa) has batted at a strike rate of 140.7 in men’s ODIs, highest such rate among all players to have faced a minimum of 100 balls in the format in that period; among batters from full member nations, only Rohit Sharma (75) and Mitchell Marsh (48) have hit more sixes than Klaasen in that period (44).
- Saim Ayub (Pakistan) has scored 279 runs at an average of 69.8 in his last five men’s ODIs, striking a boundary once in less than 10 balls in four of those five matches; he is the only Pakistan player to have scored more than 200 runs in 2024 for Pakistan (280).