Too early to say anything. Pakistan got the initial advantage, when they won the toss and then decided to bat first. A lot will depend on how long Babar Azam stays out there. After these two, it is the allrounders and then the bowlers. Both the top-runs corers for Pakistan are out now (Mohammad Rizwan and Abdullah Shafique). Babar was in poor form until now, and it needs to be seen whether he will be able to rescue Pakistan today. So far both of them are looking somewhat comfortable against the spinners. But what will happen once Jansen and Coetzee are re-introduced?
Pakistan team throughout the tournament failed to attack the opponent and this is exactly happening in today's game also. After 25 overs Pakistan going with 5 run per over. With this scoring rate Pakistan will only be able to give a target of 270 or 300 maximum. Seeing the bowling form of Pakistani bowlers 300 won't be a safe target. Pakistan already lost 4 wickets and there chances of scoring 300 are now very slim.
In starting of this match, Pakistan batting was very low quality and their opener batter did not show great effort in batting and they did not manage big score. Abdullah Shafique got got after making 9 score just only. Imam ul Haq got out at 12 score which was not show good performance. Babar Azam performance was just little bit impressive because he scored 50 score and not complete full century at least complete his half century and his performance better performance then other batters like Muhammad Rizwan. Now they lost all main batters of their team and only 3 batters remain for batting which is all bowler of their squad. At present, Pakistan successfully made 250 score in 43 overs and let's see at the end their batting how much they will give a defending target to South Africa team.
Nawaz play very well and he hit a beautiful boundary in just the previous ball, i know you see later this post that’s why I mentioned the over name 43.9. In this ball, he hit a best, amazing, and amazing boundary. Anyway, Shamsi was very harmful in this match for Pakistan because he took the 3 best and game-changer batsmen of Pakistan, and Pakistan batsmen played very well in this match and they should have because if Pakistan lost this match so maybe Pakistan lost the World Cup. Now, 3 or 4 overs left in the Pakistan innings, so let’s see what happens in these overs.
The total runs that Pakistan finishes will matter the most as their bowlers need some good total to bowl and defend.
Pakistan ended up being 270 all out in the 47th over. This may seem a good recovery but there is nothing to be optimistic about the Pakistan team today.
We know that South Africa has one of the best batting line up and this 270 score is nothing for them to chase. Pakistan's only hope is to get quick wickets and keep on taking the wickets throughout the innings until they are able to bowl them out. If the South African batsmen are able to play the whole 50 overs, I don't think that Pakistan bowlers can defend that small score.
Yes, 270 is a small score on the pitches of India where even 350 seems insufficient at times.