Although Cricket South Africa has been marred in recent times by the ongoing battle with the BCCI and whether the highly anticipated series against India will even happen is still under clouds, it is almost time for South Africans to turn their attention to the upcoming Pakistan series where their number one ranked South Africa could face a tough challenge on slow turning pitches, could but really shouldn’t.
It certainly came as a shock to see Zimbabwe win the 2nd test match against Pakistan and level the two match series, given that it was their first win against a top team since they beat India 12 years ago. It wasn’t only in the first test that Zimbabwe made the Pakistanis’ look below average, they were also on top for most of the 1st test and things could have been different were it not for a second innings batting collapse by the hosts.
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