Kagiso Rabada to Saud Shakeel, FOUR! Unfortunate! Short of a length and outside off. Shakeel hops and opens the face of the bat, dabs with soft hands past the keeper and the skip cordon and it races to third man. Kagiso Rabada to Saud Shakeel, Outside off again, Shakeel lets it go.

If it were not for No.4 batter Tony de Zorzi, South Africa would have been completely down and out in the opening Test of the two-match series against Pakistan at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. The left-hander played a knock of 104 runs off 171 balls with the help of 10 boundaries and two sixes to let the Proteas crawl up to 269 in the first innings.

Led by Noman Ali, Pakistan claimed a position of strength after reducing South Africa to 216/6 at stumps on Day 2 in the first Test at Lahore. After restricting the visitors to 378, South Africa started strongly with the bat but lost their footing in the final session.

In a gripping display of spin bowling mastery, Senuran Muthusamy ripped through Pakistan’s batting line-up on Day Two of the first test in Lahore, claiming a sensational 6-wicket haul that breathed life into South Africa’s campaign.