If anyone says miracles don’t happened these days, believe me it’s wrong. People in the ground who was watching the second ODI in Abu Dhabi and millions of watching home, have witness a miraculous innings from Abdul Razzaq who pulled off a sensational victory against South Africa and levels the series 1-1.
Abdul Razzaq stunned South Africa with his 109 notout of just 72 balls, Pakistan chased down the target of 287 on the second last ball of the match and 9 wickets down. Razzaq hit 10 huge sixes and 7 fours, was absolutely unbelievable under the circumstances. This was South Africa’s first defeat after 11 ODIs, now series is back alive 1-1.
Pakistan had started their run chase poorly as Asad Shafiq (1), Mohammad Hafeez (30), Younus Khan (18) and Misbah-ul-Haq (17) all struggled to score at a good rate as Langeveldt struck twice.
Pakistan was on the edge of losing the second one dayer as well, 70 for 4 was the score when captain Shahid Afridi and Fawad Alam started the recovery work. Both took the score to 136 in the 30th over. Afridi was looking very good to get closer to the target but got out in the same fashion as ever before. He played well for his 49 of just 40 balls including 2 sixes and 3 fours.
Fawad Alam played a little slow but he was setting things up for Abdul Razzaq, Alam got out after making 68 and after this things were looking very dark for Pakistan.
Zulqurnain Haider, Wahab Riaz and Saeed Ajmal, all sacrificed their wickets to get Abdul Razzaq on strike.
Two sixes over midwicket from the first three balls of the last over - bowled by Morkel - put the pressure back on South Africa for the first time, and after a dot ball, he carved the fifth ball through the covers for the winning hit.
In South African innings Ingram (100) scored a well compiled century but his innings was sent way back somewhere by Abdul Razzaq.
Now third ODI at Dubai is supposed to be a cracker of a match, let’s see whose goanna take the lead in the next match,
Source : Pakcricketworld.com
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