FRIDAY, 6.30PM:
PAKISTAN’S batting collapsed in their second innings on Monday, leaving them reeling at 120/7.
Asked to chase 394 for victory, the tourists were always going to have a hard task but, as in the first innings, their batting could not take the South African attack’s pressure. Allan Donald picked up two wickets, with leg-spinner Paul Adams bagging three scalps.
Adams trapped Inzamam Ul Haq (4) out of his crease, and Mark Boucher obliged by stumping the Pakistani dangerman. Adams’s second wicket was that of Aamir Sohail (7) who he trapped leg-before. Four runs later Rashid Latif was added to the list after being caught by Kallis for a duck.
Pakistan will continue on Tuesday with their backs to the wall on 120/7 after 55 overs.
MONDAY, 2.00PM:
SOUTH Africa declared their second innings at 206/7, leaving Pakistan to make 394 runs in the day-and-half remaining.
MONDAY, 10.00AM:
THE South African pace and swing attack of Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers proved too much for the Pakistani touring side in their first innings of the third Test at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Sunday.
After dimissing the South Africans for 293, the Pakistani batsmen took to the middle to chase a reasonably easy score.
They hadn’t, however, bargained on De Villiers and Donald. Donald struck first from the Park Drive end, dismissing Saeed Anwar (18), Aamir Sohail (3), Ijaz Ahmed (0) and Izamam Ul-Haq (6) in the space of just 12 balls, and conceded only five runs in the process.
Given just one over in the morning, De Villiers struck immediately from the duckpond end in his second spell, enticing Moin Khan into a nick with the second delivery of his third over.
A silly flick to Adams at square-leg by Mahmood gave De Villiers his second wicket and the old warhorse, who announced his retirement from cricket on Saturday, was on fire.
Pakistani captain Rashid Latif lasted for just one delivery, and Waqar Younis and Shaoib Akhtar fell to successive balls, leaving De Villiers at that stage with an impressive 5/8 in 37 deliveries.
Donald finished up with 4/47 from 13 overs, De Villiers with 6/23 off 11,5.
South Africa got their second innings under way after tea on the third day and at stumps were on 94/2, losing Gary Kirsten and Adam Bacher, for a healthy lead of 281 runs.