Hasan fires Pakistan to end 17-year drought
Channel pacer Hasan Ali took a good maiden ten-wicket haul to help Pakistan gain its primary series against South Africa since 2003 with a 95-run victory in the second Evaluation on the fifth and final day found in Rawalpindi yesterday.
Hasan finished with 5-60 to record his best match numbers of 11-114 and support dismiss South Africa -- who were set a challenging 370 to chase -- for 274 prior to the tea break.
Hasan's new-ball partner Shaheen Shah Afridi completed with 4-51, while spinner Yasir Shah took the previous wicket to spark jubilation among the Pakistan players. Opener Aiden Markram scored a fighting 108 and Temba Bavuma 61. Hasan ripped through the vacationers' batting buy, which lost seven wickets for 33 runs with the second new ball.
"It was remarkable from Hasan because he has got awareness and took good thing about the knowledge of playing here (in Rawalpindi)," Pakistan captain Babar Azam stated at the post-match presentation.
"At one stage we thought the overall game could've gone in any event. But we realized, one wicket and we are able to come back in to the game again. And we performed that with the brand new ball."
Azam said they are able to get better still after a historic first series win against South Africa since 2003. "It's a welcome sign but we must even more improve," said an elated Azam, who was simply leading Pakistan for the first time. "It had been a essential win and the very best part of the series win is usually that right now we are number five in Test rankings."
South Africa captain Quinton de Kock said: "We lost the big occasions in the overall game and that price us. When we reunite home, we'll have to start looking at our performances and increase along the way forward."
Losing captain hoped his group will learn lessons right from the defeat. "It's painful right now," explained de Kock who possessed a lacklustre series, scoring only 46 in four innings. "Whenever we reunite home, we'll have to seem at our performances and increase along the way forward."
