{"id":66125,"date":"2021-01-29T19:39:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=66125"},"modified":"2021-01-29T19:39:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T19:39:10","slug":"pakistan-beat-south-africa-by-seven-wickets-in-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=66125","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan beat South Africa by seven wickets in first Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sports Desk: Debutant Nauman Ali took five wickets and fellow spinner Yasir Shah grabbed four to give Pakistan a seven-wicket victory in the first Test against South Africa in Karachi on Friday.<\/p>\n

Nauman finished with 5-35 and Yasir took 4-79 as South Africa slumped to 245 all out in their second innings on the fourth day on a wearing National Stadium pitch that favoured spin bowlers.<\/p>\n

Pakistan, needing 88 for victory, lost openers Abid Ali, Imran Butt and Babar Azam for a total of 52 runs before achieving the target in 22.5 overs to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.<\/p>\n

The second Test starts on February 4 in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n

Azhar Ali was 31 not out while Fawad Alam — who hit a fighting hundred in the first innings — hit the winning boundary.<\/p>\n

It was only Pakistan's fifth victory against South Africa in 27 Tests.<\/p>\n

Anrich Nortje bowled Abid in the first over after lunch and then had Butt caught behind to finish with figures of 2-24.<\/p>\n

Azam, on his Test captaincy debut, was dismissed leg before by Keshav Maharaj.<\/p>\n

It was a spinners' battle on a brownish wicket, allowing Nauman to record figures of 7-73 and Yasir 7-133. In contrast, South Africa's spinners managed just four wickets.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan had taken a crucial 158-run first innings lead, thanks to a fighting century from Fawad and half centuries from Faheem Ashraf and Azhar.<\/p>\n

The writing was on the wall as South Africa lost nightwatchman Maharaj on the first ball of the day, bowled for two by pacer Hasan Ali.<\/p>\n

South African skipper Quinton de Kock had a miserable 50th Test as he followed his 15 in the first innings with just two runs as he was caught off a lazy push off Yasir.<\/p>\n

Temba Bavuma, who scored 40, added 42 for the seventh wicket with George Linde before being the last man out as Nauman took the last four wickets in a rapid 22 balls.<\/p>\n

He dismissed Linde for 11, Kagiso Rabada for a single run, and Anrich Nortje for a duck, before removing Bavuma, to become the 12th Pakistani bowler to take five wickets in an innings on his debut.<\/p>\n

South Africa are on their first tour of Pakistan for 14 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports Desk: Debutant Nauman Ali took five wickets and fellow spinner Yasir Shah grabbed four to give Pakistan a seven-wicket victory in the first Test against South Africa in Karachi on Friday. Nauman finished with 5-35 and Yasir took 4-79 as South Africa slumped to 245 all out in their second innings on the fourth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n