{"id":94657,"date":"2024-12-10T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=94657"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:58:28","slug":"south-africa-win-toss-elect-to-bat-in-first-t20i-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/94657\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa win toss, elect to bat in first T20I against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times)- DURBAN: South Africa on Tuesday won the toss against Pakistan and decided to bat in the\u00a0first T20I of the three-match series at the Kingsmead Stadium.\u00a0 The T20I away series is being played from December 10 to 14 with Muhammad Rizwan leading the national side.\u00a0 Earlier, Pakistan announced their playing XI with all-rounder Salman Ali Agha \u2014 who\u00a0led the team in the recently-concluded T20I series against Zimbabwe \u2014 being left out of the squad.\u00a0 Agha managed to score just 45 runs in two innings, besides taking two wickets, and thus lost his spot in the team\u2019s playing XI. The lineup also marks the return of Pakistan\u2019s established opening pair of star batter Babar Azam and white-ball skipper Rizwan, while Saim Ayub demoted to bat at number three and wicketkeeper batter Usman Khan to follow. Usman forms the Green Shirts\u2019 middle-order for the series opener with Tayyab Tahir, Muhammad Irfan Khan and Mohammad Abbas Afridi. Meanwhile, left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi, who alongside Babar, returned to the squad after being rested for the Zimbabwe series, will spearhead the bowling attack, comprised of Abbas, Haris Rauf, Sufiyan Muqeem and Abrar Ahmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s playing XI:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mohammad Rizwan (c), Babar Azam, Saim Ayub, Usman Khan, Tayyab Tahir, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Sufiyan Muqeem and Abrar Ahmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>South Africa playing XI:&nbsp;<\/strong>Rassie van der Dussen, Reeza Hendricks, Mathew Breetzke, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen (c &amp; wk), Donovan Ferreira, George Linde, Andile Simelane, Nqaba Peter, Kwena Maphaka, Ottneil Baartman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- DURBAN: South Africa on Tuesday won the toss against Pakistan and decided to bat in the\u00a0first T20I of the three-match series at the Kingsmead Stadium.\u00a0 The T20I away series is being played from December 10 to 14 with Muhammad Rizwan leading the national side.\u00a0 Earlier, Pakistan announced their playing XI with all-rounder Salman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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