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It was played between South Africa and India. India won the toss and electing to bat first, they registered a score of 176/7. In the second innings, South Africa managed to post a score of 169/8 thus India claimed the victory by 7 runs to win their second T20 World Cup title. Virat Kohli was named Player of the Match for scoring 76 runs off 59 ...
The best bowling performance in matches between the sides was the 4/18 taken by Mohammad Asif during the group stage meeting between the teams at the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa. India's best bowling performance was the 3/8 taken by Hardik Pandya during the 2016 WorldT20. [65]
It was the first time in fourteen years that South Africa toured Pakistan. [4] In December 2020, Cricket South Africa (CSA) confirmed that they would be touring Pakistan. [5] The Test matches took place in Karachi and Rawalpindi, with the T20I matches being played in Lahore. [6]
He admitted accepting between $10,000 to $15,000 from a London-based bookmaker for 'forecasting' results, not match fixing, during the recent one day series in India. In May 2000, the South African president Thabo Mbeki appointed a Commission of Inquiry into Cricket Match Fixing and Related Matters, with judge Edwin King as chairperson. [3]
It was also Quinton de Kock's final Test match, after he announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect following the conclusion of the match. [7] South Africa won the second Test by seven wickets to level the series. [8] It was the first time that South Africa had beaten India in a Test match at the Wanderers Stadium. [9]
Pakistan's first home Test match was against India in January 1955 at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), after which four more Test matches were played in Bahawalpur, Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi (all five matches in the series were drawn, the first such occurrence in Test history [29]).
South Africa won the toss and elected to field. Match reduced to 47 overs per side and South Africa's target moved to 232 due to rain. This was the first time Pakistan defeated South Africa in a World Cup match. Sarfaraz Ahmed (Pak) became only the tenth player to take 6 dismissals in an ODI innings and only the second in a World Cup match.
The highest match aggregate scored in ODIs came in the match between South Africa and Australia in the fifth ODI of March 2006 series at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg when South Africa scored 438/9 in response to Australia's 434/4. [20] The second ODI against England in Rose Bowl, Southampton saw a total of 734 runs being scored. [21]