Marco Jansson took 6 wickets in the second innings.
In the Centurion Test, Pakistan was all out for 237 runs in its second innings. The team was trailing by 90 runs in the first innings, so South Africa got the target of 148 runs. By the end of the third day's play, the team had scored 27 runs after losing 3 wickets.
If South Africa wins the first Test, the team will reach the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025. Then only the place of the second team remains to be decided, for which there is a fight between India, Australia and Sri Lanka.
Babar scored fifty Play started late due to rain on the third day. Pakistan started playing with a score of 88/3, Babar Azam led the innings with 16 runs and Saud Shakeel led the innings with a score of 8 runs. Both took the score close to 150 and Babar scored a fifty. He was caught out by Marco Janson at the score of 50 runs.
Babar Azam was out after scoring fifty.
As soon as Babar left, a flurry of wickets started. At the time of Babar's wicket, Pakistan's score was 153/4, the team lost the next 4 wickets in scoring 56 runs. Saud Shakeel stood at one end, but no batsman could stand in front of him. Mohammad Rizwan 3, Salman Agha 1 and Aamer Jamal scored 18 runs. Shakeel was out after scoring 84 runs.
Naseem Shah and Mohammad Abbas could not even open an account. Khurram Shahzad scored 9 runs. Marco Janson took 6 wickets from South Africa. Kagiso Rabada got 2 wickets. Dan Patterson and Corbin Bosch took 1-1 wicket.
Saud Shakeel scored 84 runs to take Pakistan to a respectable score.
South Africa lost 3 wickets South Africa had a very bad start in front of the target of 148 runs. The team lost 3 wickets for 19 runs only. Tony DeGeorge was out after scoring 2 runs and Tristan Stubbs was out after scoring 1 run, Ryan Rickelton could not even open the account. Mohammad Abbas took 2 wickets. Khurram Shahzad got 1 wicket. Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma remained not out till stumps, the team is 121 runs behind the target.
Corbin Bosch also scored 81 runs along with taking 4 wickets.
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