Pakistan look to continue strong white-ball form
Pakistan have reached South Africa for a long white and red ball tour which gets underway with the T20I series.
The hosts, South Africa, will be fielding a young and inexperienced team with Pakistan once again in pole position to pick up a big white-ball series win away from home. Ahead of the first T20I between South Africa and Pakistan, here’s our match preview and predictions.
Pakistan come into the T20I series off the back of away series wins in Australia and Zimbabwe and look to carry on that strong T20I form. Mohammad Rizwan will continue to lead the squad with Babar Azam once again having to shoulder most of the responsibilities as the senior most batter. Pakistan have the talented Saim Ayub at the top of the order along with the likes of Usman Khan, Salman Agha and Irfan Khan. Shaheen Shah Afridi will be looking to get back in rhythm after a couple of lacklustre series from the left arm fast bowler while Haris Rauf and Mohammad Hasnanin round out a scary pace bowling line up for the visitors.
The hosts on the other hand have an inexperienced and handicapped squad with the explosive Heinrich Klaasen leading the team. David Miller, Rassie van der Dussen and Reeza Hendricks are the mainstays in a thin batting unit for the Proteas while the bowling lineup looks even weaker with Anrich Nortje and Ottneil Baartman being the lead pacers. Tabraiz Shamsi will join the team from the second T20I while the likes of Ryan Rickelton, Matthew Breetzke and Kwena Maphaka will join the squad after the first T20I as they were part of the home Test series against Sri Lanka.
Durban will be the perfect ground for the Pakistani pace attack and expect a lot of runs and the pacers to be amongst the wickets. Against a relatively weaker Proteas squad, it will be Pakistan as favourites to start the series with a win.
Fantasy XI: Mohammad Rizwan, Reeza Hendricks, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Anrich Nortje, Mohammad Hasnain
Venue: Durban
Winners Prediction: Pakistan
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