Pak vs SA T20 Series begins today

While South Africa’s Test team is playing against Sri Lanka in Gqeberha, South Africa, another group of players is preparing for a T20 series against Pakistan that will start today.

Pakistan will play against South Africa. There is a three-match T20 series starting today. South Africa has just won a Delight Test match against Sri Lanka in Gqeberha, to keep themselves alive in the WTC final race. There will be no T20 World Cup in 2025. SA’s main focus is on test matches due to the WTC final. Heinrich Klaasen will lead South Africa in the T20 series against Pakistan.

Pakistan’s team recently played a T20 and an ODI series against Zimbabwe where they won both of the series. Left-hand batter Saim Ayab and spinner Sufiyan Muqeem performed well leading Pak towards win.  Pakistan had rested their main players including Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afraid, and captain Muhammad Rizwan in the Zimbabwe tour. Salman Ali Agha played the role of Captaincy in that series. Before that, they were in Australia, where they lost the T20 series 3-0 but won an ODI series 2-1. Pakistan’s main focus is on white-ball cricket because they are official hosts of the Champions Trophy is just ahead over two months.

Remember, SA hasn’t won any single bilateral series in the T20 format throughout the last few series. Draw 1-1 against Ireland, whitewashed by West Indies, and in other series, they didn’t perform well. South African white-ball coach Rob Walter has called up fast bowler Anrich Nortje and left-arm spinner Tabraiz Shamsi for the T20 series to increase their Strength. They both were part of South Africa’s T20 WorldCup team where they helped the team to reach in Final.

pak T20 Squad

  1. Muhammad Rizwan (Captain)
  2. Baber Azam
  3. Haris Rauf
  4. Jahandad Khan
  5.  Mohammad Abbas Afridi
  6. Mohammad Hasnain
  7. Mohammad Irfan Khan
  8. Omair Bin Yousuf
  9. Saim Ayub
  10. Salman Ali Agha
  11. Shaheen Shah Afridi
  12. Sufyan Muqeem
  13. Tayyab Tahir
  14. Usman Khan
  15. Abrar Ahmed

SA T20 Squad

  1. Heinrich Klaasen (captain)
  2. Ottneil Baartman
  3. Matthew Breetzke
  4. David Miller
  5. Anrich Nortje
  6. Nqaba Peter
  7. Ryan Rickelton
  8. Tabraiz Shamsi
  9. Andile Simelane
  10. Rassie van der Dussen
  11. Kwena Maphaka
  12. George Linde
  13. Patrick Kruger
  14.  Reeza Hendricks
  15. Donovan Ferreira

AUS vs IND 2nd Test match | Highlights

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Australia win by 10 wickets under the Pat Cummins captaincy.

1st inn ind

As India started batting first, Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc dismissed Indian opener batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal 0 (1) on the very first bowl of the match. Then Starc continued the streak of taking wickets as he dismissed KL Rahul 37 (64), Virat Kohli 7 (8), Nitish Kumar Reddy 42 (54), R Ashwin 22 (22), Harshit Rana 0 (3). A six-wicket haul by Starc led AUS to dismiss India on just 180 in 44.1 overs with the help of Pat Cummins and Scott Boland as both took 2,2 wickets.

1st inn aus

Australia came to batting with opening pair Usman Khawaja and Nathan McSweeney. They both batted well then Jasprit Bumrah strikes and took Usman Khawaja’s wicket. Then Marnus Labuschange smashes fifty and goes by Nitish Kumar Reddy on 64 (126). As continued the match Bumrah dismissed McSweeney and Steve Smith. Travis Head smashed a century and made 140(141) with a strike rate of approximately 100 leading Aus to make 337 runs in 87.3 overs with the loss of 10 wickets. Fans made a lot of memes as they named Travis Head ( a nightmare for India). Bumrah and Siraj took 4,4 wickets in the first inning. Australia remains ahead of India by 157 runs.

2nd inn ind

Further going towards 2nd inning, the Indian team looked weak in front of the Australian pace attack as none of the batsmen smashed fifty. Nitish Kumar Reddy remains the highest-scoring batsman 42 (47) as he made the same 42 runs in 1st inning. Mostly batsmen out on single-digit scores. Australia’s captain Pat Cummins took a five-wicket haul as he dismissed KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, R-Ashwin, and Harshit Rana. That made AUS to dismiss India at 175 in 36.5 overs and for the 2nd innings, AUS got the target of just 19 runs.

2nd inn aus

Australia finished the given target in just 3.2 overs. Travis Head was nominated as the Player of the Match as he smashed 140 runs in 1st inning with a strike rate of 99.29. Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins play a vital role in winning this Match as both did five-wicket haul. Starc in 1st and Cummins in 2nd inning. As of now, the series of BGT of 2024-2025 is equal to 1-1.

Has muhammad siraj broken shoaib akhtar’s fastest bowl record?

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During the second test match between AUS vs IND, At the end of the session, an unusual incident occurred while Muhammad Siraj was bowling. As he bowled the bowl, it looked like a normal delivery but the speed-gun malfunctioned displaying an unbelievable delivery speed of 181.6 km/h.

This was an Astounding delivery of speed 20.3 km/h faster than the current fastest bowl speed record owned by a Pakistani legendary bowler Shoaib Akhtar. When he cloaked a delivery at 161.3 km/h against England in the year 2003.

However, soon after the delivery was done, management confirmed that it was a technical error that made Indian pacer Muhammad Siraj the world’s fastest bowler on Friday. But on social media, it goes viral after the speed gun’s fault.

Here are Top 10 fastest Deliveries.

  1. Shoaib Akhtar : 161.3 km/h
  2. Brett Lee : 161.1 km/h
  3. Shaun Tait : 161.1 km/h
  4. Jeff Thomson : 160.6 km/h
  5. Mitchell Starc : 160.4 km/h
  6. Andy Roberts : 159.5 km/h
  7. Fidel Edwards : 157.7 km/h
  8. Mitchell Johnson : 156.8 km/h
  9. Mohammad Sami : 156.4 km/h
  10. Shane Bond : 156.4 km/h