Kagiso Rabada Test Wickets In Cape Town : South Africa's team has defeated Pakistan's team by 10 wickets in the second test match. In this match, South Africa's bowlers and batsmen have performed brilliantly. Pakistan gave South Africa a target of 58 runs to win, which South Africa achieved without any trouble. For South Africa, fast bowler Kagiso Rabada displayed strong bowling and created problems for Pakistani batsmen.
Rabada completes 50 Test wickets in Cape Town
Kagiso Rabada has bowled brilliantly in both innings against Pakistan. He took three wickets in the first innings and three wickets in the second innings. With this, he has completed his 50 Test wickets at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town. He has become the fifth South African bowler to take 50 plus Test wickets on this ground. Before him, Dale Steyn (74 wickets), Makhaya Ntini (53 wickets), Vernon Philander (53 wickets) and Shaun Pollock (51 wickets) have taken 50 plus Test wickets on the ground of Cape Town.
There are only two grounds in the history of Test cricket where five different bowlers have taken 50+ wickets in Test cricket. One is Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town in South Africa and the other is Galle International Stadium in Sri Lanka. Muttiah Muralitharan (111), Rangana Herath (102), Prabhat Jayasuriya (71), Ramesh Mendis (62) and Dilruwan Perera (57) have taken fifty+ wickets in Test cricket at the Galle ground.
Shan Masood's captaincy innings went in vain
In the second Test match against Pakistan, South African team captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be right. The team scored 615 runs in the first innings. After this, the Pakistani batsmen could not stand in front of the South African bowlers and were out for just 194 runs. In this way, Africa got a huge lead of 421 runs. But in the second innings, the Pakistani batsmen played well and scored 478 runs. Shan Masood played an innings of 145 runs. At the same time, Babar Azam scored 81 runs. Due to the good performance of these batsmen in the second innings, the Pakistani team was able to avoid innings defeat.
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