Pakistan went down fighting against South Africa by 10 wickets in Cape town. where the pitch was flat. Having conceded a mammoth total of 615 runs against South Africa in the first innings Pakistan should have batted with responsibility in their first innings having scored a total of just 194 runs.
Pakistan were unlucky as Saim Ayub got injured if Saim Ayub hadnt been injured he and the century maker Shan Masood would have set South Africa a target of atleast 200 runs which might have sent jitters amongst the South African batsmen in their second innings.
Our bowling was totally pathetic with only Mohammad Abbas and Salman Agha making significant contributions to the wickets column for Pakistan with three wickets apiece. Mir Hamza, Khurram Shehzad and Aamer Jamal proved to be ineffective on the benign Cape Town pitch.
In the end what i would like to say is that had good luck gone our way in the Centurion Test we might have drawn this test series against South Africa 1-1 instead of being whitewashed 2-0.
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