{"id":43965,"date":"2025-11-08T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/43965"},"modified":"2025-11-08T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:18:03","slug":"south-africa-opt-to-bat-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/43965","title":{"rendered":"South Africa opt to bat against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>South Africa have won the toss and opted to bat first against Pakistan in the series decider at the Iqbal Cricket Stadium on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three-match series is level at 1-1 with Pakistan clinching the opening fixture, while the visitors bounced back with a triumphing eight-wicket victory at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will be aiming for a decisive win to clinch the series. Pakistan will be eager to bounce back after consecutive series defeats against New Zealand and the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas, meanwhile, will look to carry forward their momentum from a recent series win over England, which has provided them with a timely boost.<\/p>\n<p>Playing XIs:<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Salman Agha, Hussain Talat, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi (c), Abrar Ahmed and Haris Rauf.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Tony de Zorzi, Matthew Breetzke (c), Sinethemba Qeshile, Donovan Ferreira, George Linde, Corbin Bosch, Bjorn Fortuin, Lungi Ngidi and Lizaad Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/south-africa-opt-to-bat-against-pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa have won the toss and opted to bat first against Pakistan in the series decider at the Iqbal Cricket Stadium on Saturday. The three-match series is level at 1-1 with Pakistan clinching the opening fixture, while the visitors bounced back with a triumphing eight-wicket victory at the same venue. Both teams will be aiming for a decisive win&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1762597083_unnamed-file.jpg",750,369,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":2563,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":2563,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}