South Africa end Day 3 at 27/3 in their second innings, needing 148 to win the first Test against Pakistan

Pakistan still in the match. Babar played half decent knock.

Now Rizwan and Saud needs to stop the collapse. As soon the lead reaches 100. South Africa will start to panic
 
More than Travis Head HTB would have done anyway. Good innings by Babar. Let's see if KG is actually a test standard bat or if England century was a fluke.
 
Babar was so good at keeping the ball on ground earlier on. So this was a very poor shot.
 
Macro Jansen just bowled 5 over so far ? Unbelievable captaincy

Bavuma must be drunk.
:kp
 
Marco set babar for that shot. Babar is a natural stroke maker. He cannot stop himself for long from playing a shot when ball is in his zone
 
He got his 50 so he’s secured his spot for another 20 Tests
Wasn't a good innings. Multiple edges, multiple misses that could have been knicks, got dropped on 32, tbf was a difficult catch but still.

Just overall an ugly innings. Steve Smith's 100 in the 3rd test was also ugly but you could tell that this guy was coming back in form and was improving ball by ball and was mentally defeating the bowlers and by the 4th test he proved it.

Babar looked shaky from the start.
 
Can Rizwan a keeper score a century here? Big expectations considering home bully Head has never scored a century in the opposition's den. Come on Kaptaana, do well and let's kick this useless Masood out.
 
Marco set babar for that shot. Babar is a natural stroke maker. He cannot stop himself for long from playing a shot when ball is in his zone
I'm confused about your comment is that in defence of Babar or in praise of the bowler
 
PAK batting in SENA conditions in a nutshell.

Trying to decide which dismissal was worse - Kamran's hack across the line in the 1st inns or this from Babar.
Even Kamrans 2nd innings so hard hands when playin
 
As fans, we need to get over this obsession of Babar being our best batsman. That may have been the case 4-5 years ago but it isn't anymore.

He is not our best bat. He is, at best, at the level of Asad Shafiq. He needs to be dropped and make a comeback if he piles on runs in the First Class tournament.
 
Thought babar would turn out to be a better batter than Yousef and YK but not on their level
 
Wasn't a good innings. Multiple edges, multiple misses that could have been knicks, got dropped on 32, tbf was a difficult catch but still.

Just overall an ugly innings. Steve Smith's 100 in the 3rd test was also ugly but you could tell that this guy was coming back in form and was improving ball by ball and was mentally defeating the bowlers and by the 4th test he proved it.

Babar looked shaky from the start.
But you know it’s Babar Azam and he just has to do the bare minimum unlike others
 
As fans, we need to get over this obsession of Babar being our best batsman. That may have been the case 4-5 years ago but it isn't anymore.

He is not our best bat. He is, at best, at the level of Asad Shafiq. He needs to be dropped and make a comeback if he piles on runs in the First Class tournament.
Saud is our best batter now, by a mile
 
All hinges on Rizwan the warrior, the lone warrior , the warrior savitri

Babar scored a bare 50 just to keep him afloat
 
Poor stuff from babar one of the reason why I won't rate him as test batsmen a big 100 was there today for him


Hopefully saud makes that big 100 and saves pakistan .
 
Saud is our best batter now, by a mile
Not really. And this isn't about babar being good but Saud hasn't distinguished himself from others enough yet.

Our best batter status is very ambiguous rn.
 
Temba’s proving to be a pretty weird captain

He should have started the day with Jansen with Rabada, unless Rabada insisted on bowling from the same end as Jansen wanted. No way Babar was going to add another 5 runs to his tally had it been Jansen he was dealing with
 
Temba’s proving to be a pretty weird captain

He should have started the day with Jansen with Rabada, unless Rabada insisted on bowling from the same end as Jansen wanted. No way Babar was going to add another 5 runs to his tally had it been Jansen he was dealing with
I was thinking he was carrying an injury.
 
What was that from rizwan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. And people claim he is our 2nd best odi player of all time.
 
Imagine Shan gets sacked and Rizwan is made captain

What’s Saud done wrong to not get the role of captaincy?
 
If Rizwan makes a valuable contribution, @Rana and haters will go into hiding again. Already his first innings where he was third highest scorer was crucial in setting up the score. Azam Khan would have taken 50 innings to score 28 in these conditions
 
50 for Saud

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