The visiting Pakistan cricket also lost the second test match against South Africa by four wickets at the picturesque Newlands stadium, Cape Town, South Africa on the fourth day of test match Sunday today.
South Africa winning the toss had invited the visitors to bat on the Valentine day. The visitors though stumbled initially for the loss of four wickets, but then Younis and Asad, who scored 111 runs each, gave support to the team and set a target of 338 for the hosts. Philander was the most successful bowler of South Africa, who took 5/59, including the wickets of Younis and Asad.
South Africa were however contained in their first innings by remarkable bowling of Saeed Ajmal, who took 6/96, specially the all five first wickets. However, it was Peterson's 84 that gave stability to South Africa who remained 12 runs short of the target at 326.
Coming to bat again Pakistan's second innings was a fiasco. Except for Azhar's 65 and captain Misbah's 44, the entire team crumbled and were all out on the third day for mere 169. Philander again struck with 4/40 and Steyn with 3/38.
With a target of 182, the hosts were not in any difficulty at all. Although Peterson was lbw for 1 by Umer Gul right in the start, the following batsmen added runs despite Saeed's 4/51 and met the target with four wickets remaining.
The victory brings the hosts a 2-0 series win over Pakistan. The victory today was their fifth Test win in a row and sixth consecutive series victory. Peterson was declared player of the match.
Pakistan now plays the third test at Centurion from 22-26 February.
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