Ahead of ‘Champions Trophy 2025’, Pakistan seemed to be fully prepared. Pakistan is currently on the tour of South Africa to play a T20I series of 3 matches, ODI series of 3 matches, and Test series of 2 matches. After losing the T20I series, Pakistan made a great comeback by white-wash South Africa in the ODI series. The results of the matches added another interesting story in the South Africa national cricket team Vs Pakistan national cricket team timeline. Let’s start the blog with the T20I series of the tour.
T20I Series From: South Africa National Cricket Team Vs Pakistan National Cricket Team Timeline
The T20I series was scheduled to play from 10 – 14 December, 2024. The Venues decided for the matches were Durban, Centurion, and Johanneshburg. ‘Heinrich Klaasen’ was leading the South African side with lots of new changes in the team. Whereas, ‘Mohammad Rizwan’ was the captain of Pakistan’s side with the same T20 pakistan national cricket team vs south africa national cricket team timeline -up expect some changes.
1st T20I Match 10 Dec, 2024 (Kingmead)
In the first T20I match, South Africa won the toss and decided to bat first. After Losing early wickets South Africa was completely on backfoot, Then ‘David Miller’ took the charge in his hand, by scoring 82 runs with the strike rate of 200. Miller and George Linde helped South Africa to get 183 runs on board. When Pakistan came to bat, they also lost their first wicket early in the game. But, they failed to balance their innings. Except Mohammad Rizwan no other batsmen of Pakistan succeeded to hold their innings.
| South Africa- 183/9 (20) | |
| David Miller 82 (40) | Shaheen Afridi 3/22 (4) |
| George Linde 48 (24) | Abrar Ahmed 3/37 (4) |
| Kwena Maphaka 12* (11) | Abbas Afridi 2/30 (4) |
| Pakistan- 172/8 (20) | |
| Mohammad Rizwan 74 (62) | George Linde 4/21 (4) |
| Saim Ayub 31 (15) | Kwena Maphaka 2/39 (4) |
| Tayyab Tahir 18 (18) | Ottniel Baartman 1/26 (4) |
| South Africa won by 11 runs | |
2nd T20I Match 13 Dec, 2024 (SuperSport Park)
In the second T20I match, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first. After the departure of the captain, Pakistan didn’t lose any wicket till the 12th over. Siam Ayub nearly hitted his maiden T20I century, adding 98 runs just off 57 balls. And Pakistan was able to get over 200 runs. Then South African batsmen entered the ground, and completely conquered it by hitting balls out of the boundaries. ‘Reeza Handricks’ was the centurion of the match with 117 runs in 63 balls. In the last over of the game van der Dussen finished the game for SOuth Africa by a six.
| Pakistan- 206/5 (20) | |
| Saim Ayub 98* (57) | Dayyaan Galiem 2/21 (4) |
| Babar Azam 31 (20) | Ottniel Baartman 2/51 (4) |
| Irfan Khan Niazi 30 (16) | George Linde 1/28 (4) |
| South Africa- 210/3 (19.3) | |
| Reeza Hendricks 117 (63) | Jahandad Khan 2/40 (4) |
| Rassie van der Dussen 66* (38) | Abbas Afridi 1/46 (3.3) |
| Matthew Breetzke 12 (10) | Abrar Ahmed 0/29 (4) |
| South Africa won by 7 wickets and 3 balls left | |
3rd T20I Match 14 Dec, 2024 (The Wanderers Stadium)
The third T20I match of the series was washed out without toss.
| South Africa | – |
| Pakistan | – |
| Match abandoned without any ball bowled | |
Pakistan Sweeps Off South Africa with 3-0 in ODI Series
The ODI series was scheduled to play from 17 – 22 December, 2024. The venues decided for the matches were Paarl, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. Again the South African team comes with their regular ODI squad with minimal changes. And Pakistan also continued with their regular ODI squad with some modifications.
1st ODI Match 17 Dec, 2024 (Boland Park)
In the first ODI match, South Africa decided to bat first after winning the toss. And after a strong opening partnership, South Africa started losing wickets in bunches. Markram and Klaasen balanced the site by building a good partnership. Klaasen was the top scorer with 86 runs and South Africa only able to make 239 runs in 50 overs. Pakistan also lost some early wickets. But Saim Ayub holded the innings from his end, Later Salman Agha supported him. And in the last over of the game Salman ended the thriller match by four.
| South Africa- 239/9 (50) | |
| Heinrich Klaasen 86 (97) | Salman Ali Agha 4/32 (8) |
| Ryan Rickelton 36 (38) | Abrar Ahmed 2/32 (10) |
| Aiden Markram 35 (54) | Saim Ayub 1/34 (7) |
| Pakistan- 242/7 (49.3) | |
| Saim Ayub 109 (119) | Ottniel Baartman 2/37 (7) |
| Salman Ali Agha 82* (90) | Kagiso Rabada 2/48 (10) |
| Babar Azam 23 (38) | Marco Jansen 1/45 (9.3) |
| Pakistan won by 3 wickets and 3 balls left | |
2nd ODI Match 19 Dec, 2024 (Newlands)
In the second ODI match, South Africa invited Pakistan after winning the toss. The iconic pair of Pakistan, Babbar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan added more than 100 runs together. And after their dismissal Kamran gave the finishing touch to Pakistan’s innings. And Pakistan made a huge total of 329 runs. The struggle of the South African team started at the end of the 6th over, when the skipper departed on the last ball of the over. Only Klaasen was able to perform but missed his century by 3 runs. And Pakistan easily wrapped up South Africa on 248 runs.
| Pakistan- 329/10 (49.5) | |
| Mohammad Rizwan 80 (82) | Kwena Maphaka 4/72 (9.5) |
| Babar Azam 73 (95) | Marco Jansen 3/71 (10) |
| Kamran Ghulam 63 (32) | Bjorn Fortuin 1/49 (10) |
| South Africa- 248/10 (43.1) | |
| Heinrich Klaasen 97 (74) | Shaheen Afridi 4/47 (8) |
| Tony de Zorzi 34 (40) | Naseem Shah 3/37 (8.1) |
| David Miller 29 (39) | Abrar Ahmed 2/48 (9) |
| Pakistan won by 81 runs | |
3rd ODI Match 22 Dec, 2024 (The Wanderers Stadium)
In the last ODI match, South Africa again got coin at their side and they decided to bowl. First Saim Ayub, then Babbar and then Rizwan continued to impress everyone by their batting. Saim Ayub completed his 3rd ODI century in Johannesburg. Again Pakistan crossed the 300 runs mark. And South Africa continued to fail, After the first wicket was down. The South African team started losing wickets. ‘Sufiyan Muqeem’ took four wickets to knock down South Africa’s innings.
| Pakistan- 308/9 (47) | |
| Saim Ayub 101 (94) | Kagiso Rabada 3/56 (10) |
| Mohammad Rizwan 53 (52) | Bjorn Fortuin 2/56 (10) |
| Babar Azam 52 (71) | Marco Jansen 2/58 (9) |
| South Africa- 271/10 (42) | |
| Heinrich Klaasen 81 (43) | Sufiyan Muqeem 4/52 (8) |
| Corbin Bosch 40* (44) | Naseem Shah 2/63 (9) |
| Rassie van der Dussen 35 (52) | Shaheen Afridi 2/70 (7) |
| Pakistan won by 36 runs (DLS method) | |
2 Test Match Series
The Test series is scheduled to play from 27 December, 2024 – 07 January, 2025. The venues for matches were Centurion and Cape Town. South Africa came with the same playing IX. Meanwhile, Pakistan picked a new captain for Test Matches, ‘Shan Masood’. And continued with 2 more new changes.
1st Test Match 26 – 30 Dec, 2024 (SuperSport Park)
In the first test match, South Africa invited Pakistan to bat first after winning the toss. And Wrapped up Pakistan’s innings on the first day of the match. Dane Paterson took a 5-wicket haul for South Africa. While batting South Africa played exceptionally and built a 89 runs lead over Pakistan. When Pakistan came to bat again, they faced the same problem and got out under 250 runs.
Marco Jansen took 6 wickets and totally broke down Pakistan’s innings. While chasing a small target, South Africa trembled. Kagiso Rabada and Jansen rescued Africa from the loss and won the match by 3 wickets. Mohammad Abbas was the top wicket taker for Pakistan with total 8 wickets in the match.
| Pakistan | 211 & 237 |
| South Africa | 301 & 150/8 (Target- 148) |
| South Africa won by 2 wickets | |
2nd Test Match 03 – 07 Jan, 2025 (Newlands)
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| South Africa | – |
| Pakistan | – |
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Summary
South Africa National Cricket Team vs Pakistan National Cricket Team Timeline, Pakistan have only won the ODI series during their tour of South Africa. But, the biggest plus for Pakistan is that they have in form players in their ODI squad. They have found some of the new talents through this tour. Like Saim Ayub, Slaman Ali Agha and more. So, it’s a very good sign for Pakistan’s cricket ahead of the Champions Trophy.
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