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South Africa thrashed Pakistan by 8 wickets connected Thursday (October 23, 2025) to level the two-Test cricket series, with off-spinner Simon Harmer playing a important relation with a six-wicket haul.
Pakistan opened the bid with a 93-run triumph wrong 4 days astatine Lahore past week, but Harmer flipped the publication connected different spinning wicket astatine Rawalpindi. He snared 6-50 to disregard Pakistan for 138 connected Day 4.
That acceptable South Africa a triumph people of 68 runs, and the World Test Championship winners eased to 73-2 successful 12.3 overs.
Harmer and left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, who missed the archetypal trial owed to injury, scripted South Africa's triumph with 17 wickets betwixt them successful the 2nd test.
South Africa skipper Aiden Markram made a brisk 42 disconnected 45 balls with 8 fours to powerfulness the pursuit earlier helium was trapped lbw by Noman Ali erstwhile his squad needed lone 4 runs for victory.
Tristan Stubbs, 1 of the 4 half-century makers successful South Africa’s archetypal innings of 404, was retired for a duck erstwhile helium edged Noman to slip, earlier Ryan Rickelton (25 not out) smashed Sajid Khan for six to unafraid the triumph conscionable earlier the scheduled luncheon interval.
Harmer became lone the 3rd South African bowler to scope the 1,000-wicket milestone successful first-class cricket erstwhile helium had Noman caught behind, and Pakistan's 2nd innings collapsed successful conscionable implicit an hour.
The location team's hopes hinged connected overnight batters Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan to assistance them from 94-4, but some fell to Harmer wrong off-spinner’s archetypal 3 overs of the morning.
Babar, 49 overnight, completed his archetypal half-century of the bid with a azygous and it was loudly applauded by his fans astatine the Pindi Cricket Stadium. However, Harmer pinned Pakistan’s premier batter lbw with a transportation that spun backmost and deed Babar debased connected the pads.
Babar, who hasn’t scored a trial period since December 2022, went for a reappraisal but the tv replays indicated the shot didn’t marque immoderate interaction with the bat earlier hitting the pads flush successful beforehand of the wickets.
Harmer past got an wrong borderline disconnected Rizwan’s bat and the shot popped to Tony de Zorzi adjacent to the wicket arsenic Pakistan mislaid 2 cardinal wickets wrong the archetypal 20 minutes and led by conscionable 34 runs.
Salman Ali Agha made rearguard 28 disconnected 42 balls but chopped Maharaj backmost onto his stumps earlier the left-armer had Khan stumped to decorativeness disconnected Pakistan’s resistance.
