Pakistan and South Africa 1st T20 match has started now and South Africa are batting at the moment. After the one day series win, Pakistan team should be confident and be looking to win the T20 series too. However, we can expect tight matches as Pakistani team love to make the matches dramatic.
South African top 5 batsmen total T-20 experience is about 25ish game and inexperienced batting line up showing lot of courage against quality bowling. They are scoring at almost 10 runs per over, not bad at all. Shaheen still got 2 overs so let's see how their batsmen finish the inning,
Pakistan is battling for a target of189 runs. They scored 41 runs in 4.3 overs. Even if the South African batsmen play well enough, it doesn't look like they will win. Their bowlers are failing to perform as expected. If South African bowlers can't take 2 wickets of Pakistan before 8 overs then I think Pakistan will win this match.
At one time Proteas were heading towards sweet 200+ score but in the end they wasted 3 death overs (17,18,19th) and hardly scored 18 runs. Pakistan lost their 2nd wicket but still they are very much in control, considering Rizwan still batting nicely.
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Pakistan making things easy for Proteas.
71 runs in 36 balls
Pakistan won the match. A very competitive and exciting match. Both teams played well enough. I was impressed to see the batting of Pakistan's opener batsmen Mohammad Rizwan. He scored 74 off 50 balls, he was unbeaten. It is mainly because of his great performance that Pakistan has been able to win today's match.