http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JP-Duminy-c1742, Colin Ingram seal win for South Africa over Pakistan
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 beat Pakistan in the first T20I in their series by six wickets and with 10 balls to spare. With this win at Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, South Africa now have a 1-0 lead over Pakistan and have one
more T20I to be played at the same venue on Wednesday.
Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first in a move that was deemed to be the right one. However, what was not positive was the batting of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahzaib-Hasan-c2488, as he struggled to get to a 14-ball nine. At
the other end, Imran Farhat decided to take on the depleted South African attack – in the absence of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn and Jacques Kallis – and dispatched them for a couple of boundaries.
It was Lonwobo Tsotsobe who got Farhat sent back to the pavilion when the batsman tried to walk down the track and hit the ball – instead finding an edge and giving it to the slips. Hasan was then joined
by Mohammad Hafeez and despite some of the slowest batting that one would come across in T20I, South Africans gave away too many wides and no-balls to push the Pakistani total to 38/1 in five overs.
Hasan departed off the first ball of the sixth over and Hafeez followed in the eighth over to slump to 46/3 and all of a sudden in trouble. It was captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 who took the Pakistanis out of the
mire by blasting three sixes and a boundary off the six balls that he faced but off the seventh one, he tried to repeat the dose and was caught.
Pakistan collapsed after that and from 75/3 in the 10th, they added only 44 runs off the last 10 to collapse to 119 all out. Tsotsobe got three wickets while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Johan-Botha-c67173 ended with figures of 3/31 off four.
In reply, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 with a slower ball. De Villiers was dismissed for a duck.
Graeme Smith, who hasn’t had the best of times recently was the third victim as he failed to cut a Hafeez delivery and the ball skidded onto his stumps. South Africa were 26/3 at this stage and in trouble.
However, JP Duminy was joined by Colin Ingram and the pair added a matured hand of 66 runs for the fourth wicket. Duminy made 41 before being dismissed but by then, the South Africans were only 28 runs short
of the win which they achieved thanks to Ingram’s unbeaten 46.
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