South Africa and Pakistan did battle in the 3rd and final 5-Day Test at Centurion park, Pretoria which started at 10:30 SA Time on Friday 22 February and which was scheduled to run till Tuesday 26 February 2013.
This was the Live Game Article for the Match.
South Africa won the Toss and elected to bat.
In South Africa’s First Innings they ammassed 409 runs, all out. Pakistan only managed 156 runs in their First innings and was instructed to follow on. In their Second Innings, the Pakistani’s fought bravely until they were all out on 235 runs, still 18 behind South Africa’s First Innings total.
South Africa won by an Innings and 18 runs, making a clean sweep and achieving a whitewash of Pakistan in the Test Series in South Africa
South Africa: First Innings – 409 All Out (103.2 overs)
Pakistan: First Innings – 156 All Out (46.4 overs) and folloing on in the Second Innings – 235 All Out (78 overs)
South Africa won by an innings and 18 runs
- Pakistan in South Africa Test Series – 3rd Test
- Test no. 2075 | 2012/13 season
- Played at SuperSport Park, Centurion
- 22,23,24 February 2013 (5-day match)
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GC Smith* | c Younis Khan b Ehsan Adil | 5 | 46 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 23.80 | |
| AN Petersen | lbw b Rahat Ali | 10 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 90.90 | |
| HM Amla | c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Rahat Ali | 92 | 201 | 128 | 13 | 0 | 71.87 | |
| F du Plessis | c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Ehsan Adil | 29 | 86 | 57 | 6 | 0 | 50.87 | |
| AB de Villiers† | c Asad Shafiq b Rahat Ali | 121 | 326 | 215 | 15 | 0 | 56.27 | |
| D Elgar | lbw b Rahat Ali | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| RJ Peterson | run out (Mohammad Irfan) | 28 | 61 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 70.00 | |
| VD Philander | c Mohammad Hafeez b Younis Khan | 74 | 143 | 113 | 9 | 0 | 65.48 | |
| KJ Abbott | b Rahat Ali | 13 | 44 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 46.42 | |
| RK Kleinveldt | c Saeed Ajmal b Rahat Ali | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DW Steyn | not out | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 6, w 6, nb 12) | 25 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 103.2 overs; 480 mins) | 409 | (3.95 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-13 (Petersen, 3.1 ov), 2-38 (Smith, 9.3 ov), 3-107 (du Plessis, 28.3 ov), 4-186 (Amla, 46.3 ov), 5-196 (Elgar, 48.3 ov), 6-248 (Peterson, 62.5 ov), 7-377 (Philander, 94.3 ov), 8-394 (de Villiers, 99.3 ov), 9-402 (Kleinveldt, 101.3 ov), 10-409 (Abbott, 103.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Mohammad Irfan | 21.5 | 3 | 80 | 0 | 3.66 | (3nb) | ||
| Rahat Ali | 27.2 | 1 | 127 | 6 | 4.64 | (6nb, 6w) | ||
| Ehsan Adil | 12.1 | 2 | 54 | 2 | 4.43 | (3nb) | ||
| Saeed Ajmal | 29 | 6 | 76 | 0 | 2.62 | |||
| Younis Khan | 6 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 4.66 | |||
| Mohammad Hafeez | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 4.80 | |||
| Azhar Ali | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 |
| Pakistan 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Mohammad Hafeez | c Elgar b Abbott | 18 | 85 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 40.90 | |
| Imran Farhat | lbw b Philander | 30 | 73 | 60 | 3 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Azhar Ali | b Philander | 6 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Younis Khan | lbw b Abbott | 33 | 149 | 86 | 5 | 0 | 38.37 | |
| Misbah-ul-Haq* | c Petersen b Abbott | 10 | 36 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 37.03 | |
| Asad Shafiq | lbw b Steyn | 6 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Sarfraz Ahmed† | c Smith b Abbott | 17 | 54 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 60.71 | |
| Saeed Ajmal | c Smith b Abbott | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Ehsan Adil | c du Plessis b Abbott | 9 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 69.23 | |
| Mohammad Irfan | c Elgar b Abbott | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Rahat Ali | not out | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 17, w 8, nb 2) | 27 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 46.4 overs; 234 mins) | 156 | (3.34 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-46 (Imran Farhat, 16.1 ov), 2-56 (Mohammad Hafeez, 17.6 ov), 3-56 (Azhar Ali, 18.1 ov), 4-75 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 25.4 ov), 5-95 (Asad Shafiq, 29.4 ov), 6-132 (Sarfraz Ahmed, 40.1 ov), 7-132 (Saeed Ajmal, 40.2 ov), 8-149 (Ehsan Adil, 44.2 ov), 9-149 (Mohammad Irfan, 44.4 ov), 10-156 (Younis Khan, 46.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 12 | 5 | 25 | 1 | 2.08 | (1w) | ||
| VD Philander | 10 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 3.00 | (1w) | ||
| RK Kleinveldt | 12 | 1 | 49 | 0 | 4.08 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| KJ Abbott | 11.4 | 4 | 29 | 7 | 2.48 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| RJ Peterson | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 |
| Pakistan 2nd innings (following on) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| Mohammad Hafeez | b Steyn | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Azhar Ali | run out (Steyn/†de Villiers) | 27 | 110 | 3 | 0 | 24.54 | ||
| Younis Khan | c Smith b Steyn | 11 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 23.91 | ||
| Imran Farhat | c †de Villiers b Abbott | 43 | 91 | 5 | 0 | 47.25 | ||
| Misbah-ul-Haq* | c †de Villiers b Kleinveldt | 5 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 15.15 | ||
| Asad Shafiq | c Philander b Kleinveldt | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 42.85 | ||
| Sarfraz Ahmed† | c Elgar b Steyn | 40 | 45 | 6 | 0 | 88.88 | ||
| Saeed Ajmal | lbw b Steyn | 31 | 57 | 4 | 1 | 54.38 | ||
| Ehsan Adil | c Kleinveldt b Abbott | 12 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 57.14 | ||
| Rahat Ali | lbw b Peterson | 22 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 81.48 | ||
| Mohammad Irfan | not out | 6 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 24.00 | ||
| Extras | (b 9, lb 10, w 11, nb 2) | 32 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 78 overs) | 235 | (3.01 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-0 (Mohammad Hafeez, 0.1 ov), 2-39 (Younis Khan, 16.2 ov), 3-93 (Azhar Ali, 38.2 ov), 4-107 (Imran Farhat, 45.3 ov), 5-107 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 46.6 ov), 6-114 (Asad Shafiq, 48.6 ov), 7-183 (Saeed Ajmal, 64.3 ov), 8-202 (Sarfraz Ahmed, 68.6 ov), 9-202 (Ehsan Adil, 69.2 ov), 10-235 (Rahat Ali, 77.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 23 | 5 | 80 | 4 | 3.47 | |||
| VD Philander | 15 | 4 | 32 | 0 | 2.13 | (2w) | ||
| KJ Abbott | 17 | 7 | 39 | 2 | 2.29 | (2nb) | ||
| RK Kleinveldt | 13 | 2 | 33 | 2 | 2.53 | (1w) | ||
| RJ Peterson | 10 | 2 | 32 | 1 | 3.20 |
| Match details | |||||
| Toss South Africa, who chose to bat Series South Africa won the 3-match series 3-0 |
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| Test debuts Ehsan Adil (Pakistan); KJ Abbott (South Africa) Player of the match tba |
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| Umpires BF Bowden (New Zealand) and SJ Davis (Australia) TV umpire BNJ Oxenford (Australia) Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire S George |
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London – The sight of England fast bowler Steven Finn knocking over the stumps in his delivery stride has led the MCC to draw up a new no-ball rule that will take effect in October, it was announced Thursday.
From October 1, if the bowler breaks the stumps at his end during the act of delivery, a no-ball will be called and signalled by the umpire said a statement issued by Lord’s based Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which still retains worldwide responsibility for cricket’s laws.
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good decision that. cant believe that someone could get to international level with a problem like that. shouldve been sorted out ages ago!!
SA 13 / 1 as Alviro Peterson is trapped LBW
SA 34 / 1 after 8.1 overs
SA 38 / 2
Eish
Biff out, of course
SA 68 / 2 after 17.3 overs
SA 98 / 2 after 24 overs
Amla has reached his half-ton… well done Osama Bim Amla
SA 104 / 2 at Lunch, on Day 1
107/3 faf gone now!
10 @ Ashley:
Hello Ash ag no thats not good
Pity to see that King Kallis is not playing, very difficult to replace a player like him, hope he recovers. Also hope Rory Kleinveldt does a good job in place of injured Morne Morkel.
Know have not always been following SA domestic cricket too closely so was surprised to see the name KJ Abott on the team sheet in King Kallis place. Had a look at his stats and although it would seem he is an allrounder he only has an batting average of 19.32 in all first class cricket and is listed as having played for Somerset 2nd’s, so really surprising to see his inclusion as that is not really for me shouting for test selection, although on the bowling front it looks reasonable with his 141 wickets coming for an average 21.58 runs which is quite good and at a strike rate of 47.6 balls, so seems he is more like a bowling allrounder than the batting allrounder genius Kallis that he is standing in for. All the best for the debut hope Kyle Abott has a very good game.
SA 145/3 – Amla 80 and de Villiers 29 at the crease
Sorry got the score wrong for de Villiers there, 29 was actually Faf’s score that he was out for.
SA now 153/3 Amla 83 and de Villiers 14 at the crease
South Africa 219/5 (57.0 ov)
Pakistan
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat
Day 1 – Session 3
South Africa RR 3.84
Last 10 ovs 27/1 RR 2.70
Min overs remaining 33.0
Arghh NO!!! SA 248/6 – Robin Peterson just run out for 28, just when it looke like a nice partnership with de Villiers was developing!
Triple nelson
Close of play SA 334/6 – de Villiers not out 98 so close to his century will have to sleep on it, Philander 45 not out, partnership so far is 86 runs, well done looks to me like in the end it was Proteas day.
SA 387 / 7 after 97 overs
The Proteas batsman to fall so far today was Big Vernon Philander on 74.
AB de Villiers still standing strong on 115.
SA 401/8 in the 101st over, quite a good run rate for tests but that is what happens at Centurion a small ground and good wicket which allows quick scoring
AB de Villiers was out for 128
SA all out for 409
Pakistan 56 / 3 after 21.3 overs
Pakistan 75 / 4
Pakistan 109/5
Umpires call for another LBW decision turned down by BBowden off Dales bowling. Edge, so wont be given
Although………could be pad first……………..tough call………
Not given. Looks like pad first, but not clear enough
29 @ Just For Kicks:
Hello,
Would you want to do Six Nations Live Game Articles, or shall we leave it? Unfortunately the 2 Super Rugby games from 17:05 onwards overlaps with the Six Nations games.
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