Overview
- South Africa were all out for 183 on day four, chasing 277, after resuming at 51 for two.
- Noman Ali completed a match 10-for with 4-79 in the second innings as Sajid Khan struck key blows and Shaheen Shah Afridi finished with 4-33.
- Senuran Muthusamy took 11 wickets in the match, including 5-57 as Pakistan collapsed to 167 in their second innings.
- Tony de Zorzi’s 104 and Ryan Rickelton’s 71 underpinned South Africa’s first-innings 269, while Dewald Brevis hit a brisk 54 in the final-day chase.
- Spinners claimed the vast majority of wickets on a deteriorating Gaddafi Stadium surface, and the result ended South Africa’s 10-match Test winning streak at the start of the new WTC cycle.