Pakistan search for positives after South Africa complete Test series sweep

South Africa seal 10-wicket triumph successful the 2nd Test to triumph the cricket bid 2-0 contempt Pakistan’s precocious fightback successful Cape Town.

South Africa person wrapped up a 2-0 cricket bid triumph implicit Pakistan aft easing to a 10-wicket triumph successful the 2nd lucifer successful Cape Town contempt second-innings absorption from the tourists.

Forced to travel connected 421 runs down connected the archetypal innings, Pakistan battled to 478 each out. But South Africa, who qualified for the World Test Championship last past week, easy knocked disconnected a people of 58 precocious connected Monday.

David Bedingham deed 44 not retired disconnected 30 balls arsenic South Africa sealed triumph successful conscionable 7.1 overs connected the 4th time of the match.

Bedingham was opening successful spot of Ryan Rickelton, who suffered a hamstring strain successful the tract aft scoring 259 successful South Africa’s archetypal innings of 615.

Captain Shan Masood led Pakistan’s fightback, scoring 145.

Following the result, Masood said helium believes determination are amended days up for Pakistan arsenic they held their ain for agelong periods successful challenging conditions.

“There were tons of bully things [in the series],” Masood said. “Knowing we did truly good [in Pretoria] but didn’t adjacent it out. Even here, we didn’t commencement disconnected good with shot and bat.

“We conceded excessively galore runs initially, past we folded with the bat [in their archetypal innings] connected a truly bully surface. But past the fightback, we made our highest people against South Africa successful Test cricket. Individually, radical stepped up.”

Masood fell to the 2nd caller ball, trapped limb earlier wicket by 18-year-old debutant Kwena Maphaka.

His dismissal came 3 balls aft Kagiso Rabada had Saud Shakeel caught astatine 2nd gaffe for 23, ending a 51-run fourth-wicket stand.

Pakistan, a batter abbreviated aft Saim Ayub suffered a breached ankle portion fielding connected the archetypal morning, were inactive 92 runs successful arrears aft the treble blow.

But Mohammad Rizwan (41) and Salman Agha (48) enactment connected 88 for the sixth wicket and Aamer Jamal deed a speedy 34 earlier the innings was ended.

South Africa’s bowlers received virtually nary assistance from a placid pitch.

Left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, who had been expected to beryllium a large origin connected a fourth-day pitch, achieved minimal rotation and toiled for 45 overs to instrumentality 3 for 137.

Pakistan’s skipper Shan Masood apical scored for his squad successful the 2nd Test astatine Newlands stadium successful Cape Town, South Africa [Rodger Bosch/AFP]

Masood volition rue the information his broadside allowed South Africa to people a monolithic 615 successful their archetypal innings, which meant the tourists were ever chasing the game.

Not that it is thing new, Pakistan person played good successful patches precocious but besides underperformed nether pressure. Masood hopes they tin beryllium much accordant successful their upcoming two-Test location bid against West Indies that starts connected January 17.

“We request to larn however to triumph the important moments,” Masood said. “We bounced backmost good against England [to triumph the bid 2-1 successful October]. With our backs against the wall, we did well.

“But we request to larn however to onshore the archetypal punch. We person a batch of young cricketers who volition learn, and luckily we spell consecutive into different bid with West Indies.”

Meanwhile, South Africa volition spell into the Test title last against Australia astatine Lord’s Cricket Ground successful London successful June connected the backmost of 7 consecutive wins – the 2nd astir palmy series successful their history.

South Africa observe with the trophy aft winning the Test bid against Pakistan [Rodger Bosch/AFP]