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[CricketXI]

266-2 in ODIs- I think SA took Pak batting too lightly- thinking 250 will be good enough for Pak batting line up.
SA  approach towards batting was not good enough. All SA batters played too slow as there were no demons in the wicket and there was no threatening blowing for Pak team.

Pak batting has got good reinforcement in S.Malik and Md. Hafeez.

[mo_town]

It was funny listening to Amla's comments after the first innings. He made it sound like the pitch was a tough one. The fact was that he never looked to accelerate and the Pak bowlers bowled really well.

[SLA]

I was watching some of this game and was very confused about South Africa's innings. The score suggested it must be a tough pitch, but visibly it seemed to be playing fine. It seemed really weird that they would just cruise to a sub-par score with no real effort to accelerate in the middle overs, with all those big hitting batsmen back in the hutch.

[csnew]

Pakistan batting blown away in the 2nd odi

[ajerz]

Poor effort all round by the batsman. I hope they give Shan a go in this series, his list A stats are rather impressive.

[mo_town]

Typical Pakistan. Its almost as they expect themselves to do something like this.

[Kulli]

Hasan ali trying to save the day single handed.

I see Safraz has pussied out of batting up the order on a spicy deck again.

[csnew]

112-8 to 200-8. Great counter attack - thought they were down and out earlier but Hasan has taken the game to SA

SA are clueless. 230 might be a decent score on this wicket

[Kulli]

Not 203, Sa will take that all day.

[ajerz]

If Pak can bowl, this might end up being a tricky chase for the proteas. Also awesome knock by Hasan, Kid has gone some eye, he scored a quick-fire 50 against the Kiwis last year as well. I do think Pakistan should use him more often as a hitter especially if a wicket falls with 5 overs to go or something.

[csnew]

Perfect start for Pak, both openers gone. Couple more here and we could have a game on

[Mister Le Chiffre]

South Africa being South Africa...

[CricketXI]

Superb comeback by Pak, first with down the order batting from H.Ali and then good bowling from S.Afridi and S.khan.

But still cannot understand S.Ahmed's decision of playing soo down the order, can not help but think he was trying to protect himself and being selfish here.

Asking S.Malik to bat with lower order batters when you already have Wk-batter, this could have effected S. Malik's mind set.

[csnew]

Mature knock from VdD . Always in control and looked good in only his second game - something the likes of miller probably could learn

On another day pak may have won this, phel was lucky with the bat but it was his day with the bat and ball

[CricketXI]

Did not understand Pak's game plan having SA for 80/5 and removing S.Afridi and S.Khan and introducing Md. Hafeez and H.Ali and others.

Pak should have used them in the middle overs. Pak team let the game slip, it was never a 40 over game for Pak, deeper the SA team bats more chances of them taking it home. At 80/5 it was Pak's game to loose
Very good fightback from HE van der Dussen and AL Phehlukwayo.