LAHORE: Some explosive batting performance by Saim Ayub led Pakistan to get a phenomenal 9 wickets victory over South Arica at Lahore.
Pakistan chased down a mild target of 111 in the 2nd T20i against South Africa at Lahore.
Having won the toss, the Pakistani skipper Salman Ali Agha chose to field first once again.
The left arm fast bowler Salman Ali Mirza bowled absolutely exquisitely and removed the South African top order quite cheaply.
The protease struggled right through the way it went, and lost the wickets in regular intervals.
Faheem Ashraf rooted out the South African middle order by picking up four wickets for just 23 runs.
Dewald Brevis was the only South African batter to score a respectable knock of 25 runs off just 16 balls. South Africa were all out on 110 runs in the 19th over.
Farhan Ali and Saim Ayub took Pakistan to a bristling start by playing attacking shots right from the start.
Farhan, despite getting a good start, was trapped leg before on a delivery from Bosch.
Saim Ayub smashed the visitors to all corners of the park and hit six massive 6s along with five boundaries.
The 23 years old left-handed batter played a magnificent innings of 71 runs not out off just 38 balls.
Babar Azam remained not out on 11 runs. Saim Ayub’s regaining the form is a great sign for Pakistan Cricket.
The talented- young batter was lacking in some confidence in the recent time which clearly remained as a hurdle for his ability of natural stroke playing.
Pakistan’s batter Babar Azam has now become the top runs-scorer in the T20 format.
The Pakistan’s star batter has scored 4234 runs leaving India’s Rohit Sharma (4231 runs) behind. The final match of the three-matches series will be played on the Saturday night at the Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.
