Pakistan vs South Africa, T20 World Cup 2022 Highlights: PAK beat SA by 33 runs, stay in race for semi-finals

Lovely sweep shot, sends it over the square leg area and into the crowd. First six of the match for Nawaz. 

Is this a domino effect? Nawaz not able to nail that lofted cover drive, Markram leaves his post to come running in but the ball goes over his head for four. Fourth boundary for Nawaz. 

Back to back fours to end the 12th. 11 runs have come in it and considering it is the extremely dangerous Ngidi bowling, that is a very good result indeed. 

Stop the press! South Africa have made a mistake in the field! Nawaz guides the short ball outside off from Ngidi towards third man where Shamsi makes a schoolboy error in picking the ball. It rolls away to the boundary. 

Pakistan on shaky ground here. Nawaz and Iftikhar have put up 25 runs for the fifth wicket off 24 balls. Danny Morrison had said in commentary that there was a speckle of rain as the light faded away but no problems caused by it at all. 

Iftikhar drives Rabada on the up to send the third ball of the 10th over to the boundary. The first ball of the over had also gone for four after which the batter ran two. Rabada has been quite expensive today, 33 runs off him in 2.3 overs already. 

Shamsi will be back into the attack. Mohammad Nawaz and Iftikhar Ahmed in the middle. Both are players who can score runs quickly but here, Pakistan will need them to stay till the end. 

Pakistan are crumbling here. Slow one from Nortje after he bows two thunderbolts first up, a prod from Shan Masood and he spoons it to Bavuma at mid-off. Pakistan in dire trouble now. 

Masood c Bavuma b Nortje 2 (6), Pakistan 43/4 in 6.3 overs

42 in the powerplay is not exactly a bad score but it is not great either. Add to that the fact that they have lost their top three and that means South Africa may have edged it in this powerplay. It's now Iftikhar Ahmed and Shan Masood in the middle.

Rabada, you beauty. Babar goes aerial, the shot has the height but not the distance. Rabada runs towards the boundary from midwicket, stretches out his hands and catches the ball while moving. 

Babar Azam c Rabada b Ngidi 6 (15), Pakistan 40/3 in 5.2 overs

And the rampage ends. Haris shuffles across to try and whip this length delivery and misses. Nortje goes up in appeal and the umpire gives it. Haris has a little chat with Babar before asking for DRS. Three reds it is and that is the end of this fast and furious cameo.  

Haris lbw b Nortje 28 (11), Pakistan 38/2 in 4.4 overs

Oh, the nerve, the audacity! Where has Haris been all tournament? Length ball on middle, Haris shuffles across and sends that sailing over the wicketkeeper's head. He has reached 28 in 10 balls!

Ngidi keeps things quite in the third over, with Babar being lucky to have not got an edge to an almighty heave that he missed entirely. Now Anrich Nortje comes in. 

Short ball on off stump, Haris ends up getting an uppercut and sends the ball fine for another boundary. He has raced to 20 off 6 balls!

6, 6, 4 is how that over ends. Short from Rabada on off, Haris pulls this one flat through square leg. What an over, Haris had been hit on the head off the second ball he faced in the first over, he has followed that up by sending the rest of the balls he faced to the boundary. 

Mohammad Haris, the man who has been brought on for the injured Fakhar Zaman, is easing himself into the tournament quite nicely. He whips out a flick for a half volley and clears the short boundary. Then Rabada brings out the short one and that is sent over fine leg. 

Played on! Wayne Parnell is off doing that Cristiano Ronaldo celebration again. Cramped him for room and Rizwan tries to open the face of the bat to cut it away. Gets an inside edge and the ball hits the stumps. 

Rizwan b Parnell 4 (4), Pakistan 4/1 in 0.4 overs

Short outside off from Parnell, Rizwan cuts it away to the boundary. Four runs off the first two balls for Pakistan. 

Right, here we go. Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan out in the middle for Pakistan, Wayne Parnell opens the bowling for South Africa. 

Bavuma may not be as highly regarded as Babar as a batter but the South Africa captain is currently comparable with his Pakistan counterpart for all the wrong reasons. Both players have had wretched runs in this tournament and, in the case of Bavuma, there is a very real chance that he would have been dropped today had it not been for the fact that South Africa are in a strong position. Babar will have to step up today if his team are to stand any chance of winning this match. 

Here are the two sets of players, lined up with their flags stretched out behind them. 

“We will bat. Put runs on the board and then place them under pressure in the chase. We will try and give our best and then move forward. One change for us - Fakhar misses out, Haris is in”

“We would have batted first as well, looks a bit dry, but there is some green. Batting first is an advantage, but we need to keep them down to a low score and then chase well. We have a great bunch of guys and have derived a lot of support and confidence from them. Two changes for us - one is a forced one with Miller missing out with an injury, Klaasen replaces him. Shamsi is in, he replaces Keshav Maharaj”

Quinton de Kock(w), Temba Bavuma(c), Rilee Rossouw, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Tristan Stubbs, Wayne Parnell, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi

Mohammad Rizwan(w), Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Haris, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah