South Africa 615 (Rickelton, Bavuma 106, Verreynne 100, Abbas 3-94) and 61 without loss (Bedingham 47*) Beat Pakistan 194 (Babar 58, Rabada 3-55) and 478 (Masood 145, Babar 81, Rabada 3-115) of Ten Wickets

South Africa marked their qualification for the WTC final in style and ran to a ten-wicked victory over Pakistan. It is their seventh consecutive test gain and came after two and a half days of wearing the ball before finally appreciating Pakistan for 478 in the third round. A tapping century from Pakistan-captain Shan Masood and several other contributions forced South Africa to beat again as visitors overcome the second highest first-in-the-in-test history. However, the goal – 58 – was a little more than a formality, and South Africa took 7.1 overs to turn it off.

But Pakistan made them wait for the victory. When South Africa enforced the follow -up led by 421 on Sunday afternoon, they did not expect to bowl another 122.1 overs. Masood, undefeated overnight on 102, continued and tried to rebuild after a mammoth 205 race opening stand with Babar Azam. South Africa was frustrated over large parts of the day, especially under an 88 race between Mohammad Rizwan and Salman Agha in the afternoon. But Keshav Maharaj, who had been denied most of the day, found the breakthrough, and regular wickets after it ensured that a finish was on the late sunshine.

Earlier in the day, Marco Jansen Nightwatcher Khurram Shahzad got out early before Rabada cleaned up Kamran Ghulam. Maharaj bowled more or less throughout the session, only interrupted when he changed ends at one point. His variations in tempo and flight as well as a ball that continued to turn were the most significant threat to the battles, but wickets came in pace.

Shahzad had done his job and never fully equipped to continue for too long. When a longitudinal ball from Jansen grew too big on him, he tiled it directly to Maharaj at the time. Ghulam never quite seemed to settle down and let go -Cordon interested throughout his laps. He should have been on his way without scoring as he at the same time as Shahzad fell, cut by a broad, but it burst through David Bedingham’s hands at the first slip.

However, that wicket always came. Rabada’s increasing frustration over his wicketlessness and general indiscipline – he bowled four more not -balls this morning – was about to mount. Right after transgression, he found a beauty that sipped back from the seam in ghulam and threw his middle stump back. It was an excellent way to bring up his 50th testwick on the Newlands, with the roar that followed, made it clear how much it meant to him.

Saud Shakeel and Masood continued to make South Africa work for each scalp, and yet South Africa could have had one more before lunch. Kwena Maphaka squared Shakeel with a nice delivery that corrected when it hit the pillow only for South Africa to choose against a review. When Shakeel received extensive treatment of the battle, Hawk-Eye showed that it hit the leg stub.

Masood’s vigilance during the crisis ended in some disputed circumstances. Maphaka caused one to shape away from the seam that continued to be low before rabbiting into the front cushion of the dough. Umpire Nitin Menon felt it was missing stump, but when South Africa underwent, Hawk-Eye showed it hit. It got a furious reaction from Masood, whose protests continued all the way along his slow walk from the crisis and into the dressing room.

It closed a light first hour after lunch to South Africa. Shakeel had been dispensed shortly after the game was resumed in about the same way he fell in the first laps: to nod into the glasses while driving against Rabada. With the Masood departure, there was a danger that Pakistan could be curled in a pile that they have had a tendency for recently.

But Agha and Rizwan rebuilt once again. They carried the brilliance of the other new ball and kept the strike turning around. There were only three fours in the first 55 races of the partnership when Pakistan seemed to milk the tired bowlers, but when Mulder made a mistake, Agha was quick to put him away in two fours in three balls.

The two continued when Pakistan wiped out the deficit, but soon Rizwan Maharaj tile to short cover, precisely where Bavuma had placed a field man for the shot, and South African nerves began to loosen again.

Agha, after he was discharged by DRS, fell quickly after – two ran shyly for his half -century – when a Maharaj delivery torn and jumped, drawing a sharp catch for Aiden Markram in the slides. Mir Hamza came out and had a bit of fun, including a heave back over the bowler’s head for the only six laps. But it wasn’t built to last. Aamer Jamal Conversely, Maharaj swept to slide before the Rabada wrapped laps, and Bedingham and Markram sprinted off the field.

Six years ago, on this very reason, Pakistan’s third round ended the third night when South Africa needed 41 to wrap up the series. Stubble was called, with the game ended on the fourth morning.

This time, the South Africa openers did not let the match go in the next day. Bedingham delivered a shot in the arm with an eye -catching little bank – an undefeated 47 OFF 30 – ensuring that it took South Africa only 43 balls to seal a win that, despite a very long wait in the field, was ultimately routine.