{"id":4022,"date":"2021-02-08T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:04:38","slug":"hasan-ali-leads-pakistan-to-first-series-win-over-south-africa-since-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/02\/08\/hasan-ali-leads-pakistan-to-first-series-win-over-south-africa-since-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasan Ali leads Pakistan to first series win over South Africa since 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medium pacer Hasan Ali took a maiden ten-wicket haul to help Pakistan win its first series against South Africa since 2003 with a 95-run victory in the second Test on the fifth and final day in Rawalpindi on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan finished with 5-60 to record his best match figures of 11-114 and help dismiss South Africa \u2014 who were set a daunting 370 to chase \u2014 for 274 before the tea break.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4023\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hasan-Ali-leads-Pakistan-to-first-series-win-over-South-Africa-since-2003-rapidnews-rapid-news-dailyrapidnews.jpg\" alt=\"Hasan-Ali-leads-Pakistan-to-first-series-win-over-South-Africa-since-2003-rapidnews-rapid-news-dailyrapidnews\" width=\"790\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hasan-Ali-leads-Pakistan-to-first-series-win-over-South-Africa-since-2003-rapidnews-rapid-news-dailyrapidnews.jpg 790w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hasan-Ali-leads-Pakistan-to-first-series-win-over-South-Africa-since-2003-rapidnews-rapid-news-dailyrapidnews-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hasan-Ali-leads-Pakistan-to-first-series-win-over-South-Africa-since-2003-rapidnews-rapid-news-dailyrapidnews-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hasan&#8217;s new-ball partner Shaheen Shah Afridi finished with 4-51, while spinner Yasir Shah took the last wicket to spark jubilation among the Pakistan players.<\/p>\n<p>Opener Aiden Markram scored a fighting 108 and Temba Bavuma 61.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FlYKqppSf\">pic.twitter.com\/6FlYKqppSf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1358706105136910342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThey put on a 106-run stand for the fourth wicket to give Pakistan a scare.<\/p>\n<p>Markram took a single off the last ball before lunch as South Africa reached the break on 219-3, needing 151 for a win.<\/p>\n<p>But Hasan ripped through the tourists&#8217; batting order, which lost seven wickets for just 33 runs with the second new ball.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan struck with the second over of the new ball to end Markram&#8217;s resistance by getting the opener caught in the slip and end his 335-minute fight.<\/p>\n<p>Markram&#8217;s fifth Test century \u2014 the first outside South Africa \u2014 included 13 boundaries and three sixes.<\/p>\n<p>Next ball, Hasan had Quinton de Kock caught in the slip for nought, ending the South African skipper&#8217;s miserable series with just 46 runs.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"60211460471e3\">Historic win<\/h2>\n<p>Hasan dismissed George Linde for four to record his third five-wicket haul as he improved upon his previous best match figures of 7-83 against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, both teams were involved in a keen battle for victory as South Africa resumed on 127-1, knowing the best chase at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in ten previous Tests was the 200 scored by Sri Lanka in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa saw Dussen bowled off a beautiful inswinger by Hasan \u2014 only the third ball of the day \u2014 while Du Plessis was leg-before to the same bowler in the fifth over of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>It capped a sub-par series for the experienced Du Plessis who managed just 55 in four innings.<\/p>\n<p>This is Pakistan&#8217;s only second Test series win over South Africa in 12 attempts, having lost eight and drawn three.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan last beat South Africa 1-0 in a two-match series at home in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan won the first Test by seven wickets in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The series win also lifts Pakistan to fifth in international Test rankings \u2014 the first time they have placed in the top five since January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa are pushed to sixth from fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will now play three Twenty20 internationals on February 11, 13 and 14, all in Lahore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medium pacer Hasan Ali took a maiden ten-wicket 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