{"id":95262,"date":"2024-12-19T13:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=95262"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:23:02","slug":"second-odi-south-africa-win-toss-opt-to-bowl-first-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/95262\/","title":{"rendered":"Second ODI: South Africa win toss, opt to bowl first against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times)- South Africa have elected to field first against Pakistan after winning the toss in the second One-Day International (ODI) of the three-match series at Cape Town on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PLAYING XIs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pakistan:<\/strong>&nbsp;Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (C\/WK), Kamran Ghulam, Salman Ali Agha, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>South Africa:<\/strong>&nbsp;Tony de Zorzi, Temba Bavuma (C), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Marco Jansen, Andile Phehlukwayo, Bjorn Fortuin, Kwena Maphaka, Tabraiz Shamsi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HEAD TO HEAD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan and South Africa have played a total of 84 ODI matches. Of these, Pakistan won 31, while South Africa claimed victories 52 times. One match ended without results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Matches played: 84<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pakistan won: 31<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>South Africa won: 52<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FORM GUIDE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan will carry forward their winning momentum after clinching back-to-back ODI series victories against Australia and Zimbabwe and are eyeing their third consecutive ODI series win. Similarly, South Africa are also riding a winning momentum, having triumphed in their previous series against Ireland 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan: W, L, W, W, W (most recent first)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa: W, W, W, L, L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- South Africa have elected to field first against Pakistan after winning the toss in the second One-Day International (ODI) of the three-match series at Cape Town on Thursday. PLAYING XIs Pakistan:&nbsp;Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (C\/WK), Kamran Ghulam, Salman Ali Agha, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95262","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Second ODI: South Africa win toss, opt to bowl first against Pakistan - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/95262\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Second ODI: South Africa win toss, opt to bowl first against Pakistan - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan(National Times)- South Africa have elected to field first against Pakistan after winning the toss in the second One-Day International (ODI) of the three-match series at Cape Town on Thursday. 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