2024 has been a very bad year for Pakistan so far, with them suffering a string of embarrassing defeats. For the Pakistan team that toured South Africa at the end of the year, the first two games of the T20 series did not live up to expectations. In the first game of this series, the team failed miserably due to poor performance from the batsmen, and in the second game, the bowlers ruined the team’s fortunes. In the second match of the series at the Centurion Stadium, Pakistan scored 206 runs while South Africa achieved the feat in 19.3 overs while conceding just 3 wickets.
For the first time in T20 Internationals, Pakistan failed to defend their title by scoring 200 runs or more.
In the T20 Internationals, Pakistan suffered a defeat that even they did not expect in the second match of the series against South Africa. Before this match against Pakistan, who are considered one of the best teams in this format, no team had been able to win by chasing a target of 200 or more, but the African team was in the second T20 Their arrogance was shattered during the game. victory. Prior to this game, Pakistan had given the opponent a target of more than 200 runs eight times in T20 Internationals and won all of them, but suffered a defeat for the ninth time. Before this match, the record for successfully chasing the highest run target in a T20 international against Pakistan was England, who had achieved their 2020 target of 195 runs.
The bowling of Shaheen and Haris Rauf was the most disappointing.
Pakistan’s batting at the Centurion Stadium saw a brilliant unbeaten innings of 98 runs off the bat of youngster Sam Ayub, apart from this, Babar Azam also managed to hit a A score of 31 points in the game. In terms of bowling, everyone expected better performance from Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf, but Shaheen scored 37 runs in 4 overs while Harris scored 57 runs in 4 overs , both bowlers didn’t even get a hit in the same game. Get wickets.
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