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The No. 11 batter Kagiso Rabada and Senuran Muthusamy deed career-best half-centuries arsenic South Africa scripted 1 of its astir memorable comebacks to predominate Pakistan connected Day 3 of the 2nd and last Test.
South Africa was each retired Wednesday for 404 successful its archetypal innings — having resumed connected 185-4 and being reduced to 235-8 and 306-9 — to instrumentality a 71-run lead. Pakistan's left-arm spinner Asif Afridi claimed six wickets and became the oldest bowler successful trial cricket to drawback a five-wicket haul successful his debut trial astatine the property of 38.
Pakistan collapsed to 94-4 successful its 2nd innings astatine stumps. Off-spinner Simon Harmer took 3-26 and Rabada had Abdullah Shafique caught successful the slips cordon successful his incisive opening spell with the caller ball.
Babar Azam, who hasn't scored an planetary period successful much than 2 years, is 49 not retired and wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan undefeated connected 16 arsenic the brace led Pakistan's resistance.
South Africa earlier fought backmost successful a lucifer wherever Pakistan had won the important flip connected a spinning wicket.
Afridi (6-79) had enactment Pakistan successful show of a meaningful first-innings pb earlier the location squad ran into Muthusamy and Rabada's electrifying 98-run past wicket stand.
Muthusamy made an unbeaten 89 disconnected 155 balls and Rabada smashed 4 sixes and 4 boundaries successful his belligerent 71 disconnected 61 arsenic the Proteas bid to level the two-match series.
Afridi's five-wicket haul saw World Test Championship victor South Africa slipping to 221-7 successful 80 overs earlier Pakistan's ploy to decorativeness disconnected the innings with the 2nd caller shot misfired badly.
Muthusamy chopped Pakistan's pb to 27 erstwhile helium shared a 71-run ninth-wicket basal with Keshav Maharaj, who gave astatine slightest 3 chances and went connected to people 30. Rabada blunted the gait of Shaheen Shah Afridi and the spinners with his archetypal trial 50.
It was lone the 2nd clip successful trial matches that some the ninth and 10th wickets shared partnerships of 50-plus successful a trial innings.
South Africa went to luncheon 48 runs down with 2 wickets successful hand, but Muthusamy swept and reverse swept against the spinners with easiness and Rabada didn't spare the bowlers earlier helium holed retired to long-on astatine the changeable of beverage that ended a superb counterattack from South Africa.
Record haul
Asid Afridi became lone the sixth Pakistani spinner aft Mohammad Nazir, Shahid Afridi, Bilal Asif, Noman Ali and Abrar Ahmed to drawback a five-wicket haul successful a debut trial aft South Africa resumed connected 185-4.
In doing so, helium bushed the trial grounds acceptable by England legspinner Charles Marriott, who returned 5-37 connected debut against West Indies successful 1933 astatine the property of 37.
“I ne'er mislaid anticipation to play (test cricket) aft performing consistently successful home cricket,” Afridi said. “I kept the program elemental and deceived the batters from consecutive deliveries. If we acceptable up a people of 170-plus, we volition triumph the match. We person 2 acceptable batters successful and we mightiness adjacent instrumentality a 200-plus pb which volition beryllium hard for them to pursuit it down connected this pitch.” Afridi's sliders baffled the South Africa batters arsenic helium struck connected the 4th shot of the day, uncovering the extracurricular borderline of Kyle Verreynne's (10) bat.
Tristan Stubbs (76) added 8 to his overnight 68 earlier helium was undone by different consecutive transportation arsenic helium tried to flick the left-arm spinner disconnected the backmost ft and was retired limb earlier wicket.
Afridi past celebrated his memorable five-wicket haul erstwhile Harmer (2) went for a expanse but was struck connected the backmost limb straight successful beforehand of the stumps.
Pakistan took the 2nd caller shot and Noman Ali yet got his archetypal wicket erstwhile helium had Marco Jansen lbw.
Pakistan leads the two-match bid aft a triumph successful Lahore past week. (AP) UNG
