Hafeez, Gul demolish South Africa
Mohammed Hafeez and Umar Gul turned their tour around to take Pakistan to an emphatic victory and leapfrog three places on the ICC rankings to No.3
03/03Result
2nd T20I, Pakistan tour of South Africa at Centurion, Mar 3 2013
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![Pakistan]( "Pakistan")
195/7 -
![South Africa]( "South Africa")
100 (12.2/20 ov)
Player of the Match
03/03Result
2nd T20I, Pakistan tour of South Africa at Centurion, Mar 3 2013
-
![Pakistan]( "Pakistan")
195/7 -
![South Africa]( "South Africa")
100 (12.2/20 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
Mohammad Hafeez
86(51) 9x4 - 4x6
Control %83%
- Productive Shot
- leg glance
- 29 runs
- 4x4 - 1x6
Ahmed Shehzad
46(25) 6x4 - 2x6
Control %88%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 14 runs
- 1x4 - 1x6
Best performances - Bowlers
Umar Gul
- O2.2
- M0
- R6
- W5
- Eco2.57
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Mohammad Hafeez
- O3
- M0
- R25
- W3
- Eco8.33
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Match Details
Toss
Pakistan , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Pakistan won the 2-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.30 start, First Session 14.30-15.45, Interval 15.45-16.00, Second Session 16.00-17.15
Match days
3 March 2013 (20-over match)
T20I debut
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
PAKISTAN 195/7 (20 OVERS)
- Mohammad Hafeez86 (51)
- Ahmed Shehzad46 (25)
- Rory Kleinveldt2/27 (4)
- Chris Morris2/35 (4)
SOUTH AFRICA 100 (12.2 OVERS)
- AB de Villiers36 (22)
- Rory Kleinveldt22 (7)
- Mohammad Hafeez3/25 (3)
- Umar Gul5/6 (2.2)
Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Devashish Fuloria
Thanks everyone for sticking around. I just hope the pitch has not dropped. Firdose Moonda's report is being updated as I type. Thanks to Mazher, our statsman as well. This is Devashish Fuloria signing off. Ciao ciao.
Presentation:
Faf du Plessis: "Nothing went to plan. Mainly because of two things - Hafeez played a brilliant innings and our bowling didn't work to a plan. But our bowling did well in the last five overs to keep Pakistan to what we thought was a manageable total. But a five-for and an 80-odd completely changes the game. Pakistan are a dangerous team."
Man of the Match is Mohammad Hafeez: "The credit goes to the coaches, they really worked hard with me. I knew I was only one knock away. The mindset was clear and it was to play positive cricket. Everything I did, it worked for me today. The team was eager to perform as we didn't have a good time in Tests. Umar showed the way with brilliant bowling as he is the senior bowler. We were very happy with the crowd support. We showed character, we wanted to do well and it is a special occasion for everyone in the team. The win will help us going into the ODIs"
What a funny game that was! Pakistan, especially, Hafeez batted like there was no tomorrow and it all worked perfectly as they put up a mammoth total. Then South Africa started well, but probably were too dependent on AB. Once he went, Umar Gul and Hafeez again just blew away the South African batting like it was some club side. They fall to their lowest T20 total. Classic Pakistan today. Now they would go into the ODI series with rejuvenated confidence.
luke: "SA should be just a little careful in their general approach to cricket. IMO England took as long as it did to playing top level stuff partly due to their light-hearted approach to non-Test forms of cricket. SA have the long form sussed but ODIs and T20s are a mystery to them still. Kirsten was brought in to address that (and possibly their mental strength) and we can say he's so far failed in one of those areas."
Fida Khattak: "There were three "on hat-trick" occasions in one innings. (twice on umar gul's bowling and once on hafeez's). Has that ever happened before in any form of the game?"
Nisar Ahmed: "Remember Faf saying "We would bowl first anyway"; for this?? Cricket is cruel but We Love it."
Shamayel: "Umar Gul gets exactly the same figures again what an upredictable and weird this T20I format is and also how unpredictable Pakistan is."
12.2
W
Umar Gul to Abbott, OUT, short ball on the body, the batsman gets a top-edge, the ball lobs up for Kamran Akmal to take an easy catch. Gul gets his five-for
KJ Abbott c †Kamran Akmal b Umar Gul 2 (5m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 100.00
12.1
2
Umar Gul to Abbott, 2 runs, he bowls length and the batsman manages to chip it over extra cover for a couple of runs
END OF OVER:12 | 14 Runs 2 Wkts | SA: 98/9 (98 runs required from 48 balls, RR: 8.16, RRR: 12.25)
- Lonwabo Tsotsobe0 (1b)
- Kyle Abbott0 (0b)
- Mohammad Hafeez3-0-25-3
- Saeed Ajmal2-0-19-0
11.6
0
Mohammad Hafeez to Tsotsobe, no run, misses the hat-trick! It was tossed up delivery on the middle, and Tsotsobe was not holding bat, he went for a slog. Just missed it completely and the ball hit him on the pads
Cricketlover: "Hafeez is making sure he gets the MoM by keeping Gul out of attack! :P"
What a match this is! There is action off every ball. Killer for my fingers.
11.5
W
Mohammad Hafeez to Peterson, OUT, caught at short fine leg! Peterson tries to go with a kind of switch hit, but the ball is fired towards his leg stump and he only manages to get a top-edge that lobs towards the left of Afridi at short fine.
RJ Peterson c Shahid Afridi b Mohammad Hafeez 13 (23m 14b 1x4 0x6) SR: 92.85
11.4
W
Mohammad Hafeez to Kleinveldt, OUT, caught at deep extra cover! The fun is over. He takes a tiny step down the pitch and tries to send this to long-off but ends up slicing it towards deep extra cover where the fielder takes a simple catch
RK Kleinveldt c Umar Akmal b Mohammad Hafeez 22 (8m 7b 1x4 3x6) SR: 314.28
11.4
1w
Mohammad Hafeez to Kleinveldt, 1 wide, this one spins down the leg side and the batsman misses. He was going for this one too
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Hafeez, Gul demolish South Africa
Mohammed Hafeez and Umar Gul turned their tour around to take Pakistan to an emphatic victory and leapfrog three places on the ICC rankings to No.3
