Player of the match George Linde slammed 48 and then claimed 4-21 – his best figures in T20I cricket – to help South Africa beat Pakistan by 11 runs in the first T20I at Kingsmead in Durban on Tuesday night.
Replying to South Africa’s total of 182 for nine, dominated by a dashing David Miller ) and Linde , Pakistan eventually were restricted to 172 for eight wickets in front of a boisterous capacity crowd.The tourists made a brisk start to their run chase despite their star batter, Babar Azam, falling for a duck in the third over, well caught by Andile Simelane after he top-edged a slash to third-man off Kwena Maphaka.
But Pakistan skipper Muhammad Rizwan took two sixes and a four off a chaotic 17th over from Maphaka that included overthrows and missed run-out chances, with a total of 24 coming off the over, the most expensive of the match.But then Linde took a hand in effectively winning the match for his country.
Maphaka then gained some revenge for his expensive over when, with the second ball of the final over, with Pakistan needing 19 to win, Rizman was caught at short third-man for a superb 74 off 62 balls, including five fours and three sixes.MILLER AND LINDE FIRE WITH THE BAT Matthew Breetzke was quick to follow in the next over with a particularly soft dismissal as he cut legspinner Abrar Ahmed tamely to backward point.
And when Heinrich Klaasen was caught on the boundary at cow corner – the ball getting caught in the stiff south-westerly wind – South Africa had slipped to 71 for four in the ninth over.
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