Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers
103(117) 11x4 - 0x6
Control %95%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 33 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
9 8 6 14 22 10 17 17
HM Amla
HM Amla
74(114) 7x4 - 0x6
Control %93%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 24 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
2 0 9 11 19 10 6 17

Best performances - Bowlers

DW Steyn
DW Steyn
O8.1
M6
R8
W6
Eco0.97
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
DW Steyn
DW Steyn
O28.4
M10
R52
W5
Eco1.81
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

South Africa , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

South Africa led the 3-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

10.30am start, Lunch 12.30-13.10, Tea 15.10-15.30, Close 17.30

Match days

1,2,3,4 February 2013 (5-day match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorecard Summary

SOUTH AFRICA 253(85.2 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

PAKISTAN 49(29.1 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

SOUTH AFRICA 275/3d(62 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

PAKISTAN 268(100.4 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Siddarth Ravindran

It's youth day at the Wanderers, they have bused in a whole lot of school kids and they are all singing now.

WaKXx: "Steyn goes 2 up over Amla."

Sifiso: "Dale Steyn, you beauty! 11 for 60. What a bowling performance. The best bowler in the world by quite a mile!"

South Africa utterly dominant in this game. Pakistan seemed to have had a decent first day, when Junaid Khan showed his ability to snake the ball around, but Steyn and Co demolished Pakistan for 49 on the second morning, after which there was no coming back. AB de Villiers finished the game with a century and a record-equalling 11 catches, but no doubts over who the star of the show was - Dale Steyn finished off the match with a lung-busting spell of 11 overs, to complete another five-for and hand South Africa a 211-run victory.

AhmadSaeed: "Its no wonder that Pakistan have lost to the very good side. But that 2nd day morning storm was the time when we lost the game, rest of the time we were OK. There are some positives to be taken, and still don't understand why Rahat was playing ahead of Irfan and Ehsan Adil."

Sharjeel: "A bit sad over the lbw. 'AB' should have broken the world record of most caught behinds alongside with Steyn's 5. Would have been icing on the cake."

Oliver Jones: "Steyn is just ridiculous. Clearly the best bowler in the world at the moment. Anderson's immense at swing bowling, but there's no doubt that when Steyn's in the groove, he can just downright bully teams into giving up and losing their wicket. He's got a brute of a bouncer, vicious swing, precision accuracy and the look of a man who will get you out, even if it takes all day. Anderson doesn't have the aggression for that."

Farhan: "Cape town has quite a spinning pitch. We'll play well there. Nevertheless SA showed why they deserve the No1. Pak Batting improved in the 2nd innings. Good fight back. Overall good test cricket."

Post-match presentation:

Misbah-ul-Haq: "I think that was a great spell of innings, that hurt us really. I think such a big batting line-up, we got them 250- something, we could have scored 300 runs or equal to them, this could have been a good Test match. I think everybody knows that once we can see off the new ball, we can score runs, I think in the next match you will see that. They are the No. 1 side, but they have top-class bowlers, top-class batsmen, we can learn a lot from them."

Graeme Smith: "You always get a bit nervous in milestone game, people could say that you are not totally focused. We knew we wanted to bat first, we were looking at 250-odd, but we left ourselves down a little bit. But we knew the cracks would come into effect. Blessed to have Steyn in the attack, No. 1 bowler in the world, he has been helped Morkel and Philander. Hopefully AB has silenced the critics with his keeping, our intensity on the third morning was very good. We've got two Tests left this summer, hopefully back in Cape Town the turnout will be amazing. Think I'm going to go home tonight and spend two days in bed to recover from all the emotions, all the support from the fans."

The Man of the Match is Dale Steyn: "I bowled quite nicely (grins), AB's hundred, Biff's 100th Test as captain, the decision to bat on a tough track, that's what this team is about, great performance from the team. I've not been able to pick up wickets at the top in recent times but glad I did it here. I'd like to say I've bowled better in the nets, but this is what counts. We wanted to try and get these wickets as quickly as possible today, the guys pushed hard, there wasn't a lot of chances, we were pumped to try and finish off the game. Things just kind of clicked, the ball just came out nicely, there's not much thinking going on, your natural instinct takes over, I just got the ball in my hand and ran in and bowled."

Omar: "Steyn's such a great guy, that post match presentation with him was a delight to watch. He throws vicious jabs on the field but he is a gentlemen when its all done and dusted. Brilliant."

Vijaypc: "There was once a bowler called Steyn, who made the batsman grimace in pain, "He finishes the game too fast." the broadcasters would lament, hey it aint his fault, he is just quick, accurate and adamant."

And here's our (disgruntled?) reader Abdullah: "well, thanks to cricinfo for not publishing any of my comment. i am so grateful to you guys. if u had them published, i may have been more happy but we don't want that, do we... hahaha."

On that note, this is Siddarth Ravindran signing off. Thanks for all the comments!

100.4
W
Steyn to Junaid Khan, OUT, given lbw, review time, short of length ball on middle and that strikes him low on the front pad, batsman was deep in the crease, that was going on take out middle and leg, it's all over at Jo'burg, Steyn gets another five-for, undoubtedly the world's greatest bowler

Junaid Khan lbw b Steyn 9 (44m 23b 2x4 0x6) SR: 39.13

100.3
0
Steyn to Junaid Khan, no run, again teasing the batsman outside off, who doesn't nick it
100.2
0
Steyn to Junaid Khan, no run, appeal for a caught-behind, Steyn had his arms aloft but there was no bat involved there, off the pad and through to the keeper, no chance of lbw since that was quite high
100.1
0
Steyn to Junaid Khan, no run, getting the ball to move away once more, beats the batsman's flail outside off

Steyn now bowling his 11th over in a row

END OF OVER:
100 | 6 Runs | PAK: 268/9

  • Rahat Ali3 (9b)
  • Junaid Khan9 (19b)
  • Morne Morkel25-7-89-2
  • Dale Steyn28-10-52-4

Pakman: "10 overs in a spell for a out and out pace bowler!! Steyn is the complete package, he has the stamina of Ntini and the pace of Donald and the cleverness of Pollock. Superb performance!! You will not find one Pakistan who is not in awe of Steyn!"

99.6
0
Morkel to Rahat Ali, no run, shortish ball outside off, looks to cut that and misses
99.5
2
Morkel to Rahat Ali, 2 runs, pitched up and that is past mid-on for a couple, there was a shout of 'Catch,' as the ball was in the air for a bit but wide of Amla

Pakistan tour of South Africa 2012-13 News

Pakistan 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st7Mohammad HafeezNasir Jamshed
2nd57Azhar AliNasir Jamshed
3rd6Younis KhanAzhar Ali
4th12Younis KhanMisbah-ul-Haq
5th127Misbah-ul-HaqAsad Shafiq
6th1Misbah-ul-HaqSarfaraz Ahmed
7th8Umar GulSarfaraz Ahmed
8th22Saeed AjmalUmar Gul
9th21Umar GulJunaid Khan
10th7Junaid KhanRahat Ali