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Pakistan vs South Africa സ്കോര് ബോര്ഡ്, 1st Test, South Africa vs Pakistan 2018-19
Result · Dec 26 2018, Wed - 01:30 PM (IST)
PAKISTAN181, 190
SOUTH AFRICA223, 151/4
South Africa won by 6 wickets
CRR:2.98
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Match Info
| പരമ്പര: | Pakistan in South Africa 2018/19 |
| തിയ്യതി: | Dec 26 2018, Wed - 01:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | South Africa |
| City: | Centurion |
| വേദി: | Supersport Park |
| ടോസ്: | Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Aiden Markram, Dean Elgar, Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis (c), Theunis de Bruyn, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock (wk), Keshav Maharaj, Dale Steyn, Kagiso Rabada, Duanne Olivier |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Imam ul-Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Babar Azam, Sarfraz Ahmed (c) (wk), Mohammad Amir, Yasir Shah, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi |
- South Africa have lost just once in their past 10 Tests against Pakistan (W6, D3), but the two nations have not met in the Test arena since October 2013; South Africa winning by an innings & 92 runs on that occasion.
- Eight of the last nine Test matches held in South Africa between the Proteas and Pakistan have been won by the hosts; including each of the last four.
- South Africa have won their previous two encounters with Pakistan at the SuperSport Park in Centurion, their most recent win there coming in February 2013 by an innings & 18 runs.
- Only at Newlands (25) have South Africa won more Test matches than the 18 they have won at SuperSport Park - they have lost just one Test at the venue since February 2001 (February 2014 v Australia).
- Pakistan are looking to record a third away win in Tests this calendar year for just the fourth time this century (4 - 2002, 5 - 2011, 3 - 2015), after two wins over England and victory against Ireland.
- South Africa will be out to avoid a three-game losing streak for the first time since December 2015 after suffering back-to-back defeats to Sri Lanka in July.
- South Africa's Dale Steyn has taken at least six wickets in each of his last three Test matches at Centurion, taking first innings figures of 5/33 in his most recent match here in August 2016 against New Zealand; Steyn needs one more wicket to overtake Shaun Pollock (421) as South Africa's leading Test wicket-taker.
- Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah is just seven shy of eclipsing Saqlain Mushtaq (208) for Test wickets - the only two Pakistan spinners to have claimed more Test wickets are Danish Kaneria (261) and Abdul Qadir (236).
- Along with the recently retired AB de Villiers (490), South African duo Aiden Markram (478) and Dean Elgar (432) have each scored over 400 Test runs this year off pace bowling - the only Pakistan batsman to have scored 300+ runs off pace bowling this year is Haris Sohail (314).
- Kagiso Rabada (South Africa) is just four wickets shy of claiming 50 wickets in 2018 - he claimed 57 wickets in 2017; this will be his first Test series against Pakistan.
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