
Pakistani Shaheen Shah Afridi, left and teammates, congratulated after the second after victory of the first test cricket match against South Africa in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Pakistan ensured a decisive 93-run victory against the World Cricket World Test Championship in South Africa in the first test on Wednesday and ended an impressive 10-matching lane of South Africa.With the victory of Pakistan, he also overtaken India at the World Cup point (WTC) and jumped second in the ranking of Australia. “I think you always have to start well. It’s a great opportunity to play the team that won the previous test championship,” said Captain Pakistan Shan Masood. “We are very excited that we are back home to play the test cricket and start with the victory. I think it is a great start. Today we closed it here and we are on another.”
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TeammatcheswonlutDedDuCTionptPctaustralia33000036100.00Pakistan1000012100.00sri Lanka21001016666.67india7420105261.90england522012643.33Bangladesh2010416.67105500505050.00 Zealand00000000.00South Africa10100000.00Previously, the exceptional performance of the left arm of Noman Ali with the characters of the 10-191 matches in combination with the decisive 4-33 Shahe Shah Afridi showed the assistance in dismantling the setting of the South Africa for 183 on day 4.The remarkable form of Noman Ali on the domestic goal continued and in the last five domestic tests she claimed 46 goals, of which 20 against England and 16 against West India. His latest performance included characters 6-112 in the first shifts and 4-79 in the continuous charm 28.South Africa began the day at 51-2 and faced a challenging goal of 277 runs to difficult gate. The team has already admitted the 109 shift.The morning session occurred early failures for South Africa, when Tony de Zorzi, who scored the century in the first shifts, was released for 16 years. Tristan Stubbs soon followed and managed only 2 runs before Salman Ali Agha was caught.Dewald Brevis and Ryan Rickelton provided some resistance with a 73-running partnership. Brevis, playing in his third test, showed an aggressive intention by hitting a noman for six and two boundaries in one over and reached his half -century out of 51 balls.However, Brevis’s promising shifts ended when Bowed was scoring his fifty. Rickelton’s patient knocking on 45 runs out of 145 supplies was terminated by Sajid Khan off-Spinner, while AGHA came in the slip.
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The South African struggles continued after lunch, when Senuran Muthusama fell on Khan’s full -fledged van and tried to shoot. The Afrids then cleaned the remaining bats to ensure Pakistan’s victory.The second and final test of the series is scheduled for Monday in Rawalpindi. South African bowling options will be strengthened by the return of the experienced spinner Keshava Maharaj, who missed the first test for injury.The match emphasized Pakistan’s dominance in domestic conditions, especially the effectiveness of their spinners when turning the goals. The inability of South Africa to master the rotation and the return swing eventually led to their first defeat in 11 matches.