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'Pakistan Being Pakistan'- Netizens React As South Africa Win Historic Test Match

Bhargav Dixit∙ Updated: Dec 29 2024, 5:55 PM

Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen secure a win with the bat. [Source: @FoxCricket/X]Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen secure a win with the bat. [Source: @FoxCricket/X]

South Africa have become the first team to qualify for the final of the ongoing third edition of the ICC World Test Championship. Having finished as the third-ranked team during WTC 2021/23, South Africa will go into their last Test of this cycle in Cape Town with a guarantee of traveling to England next year.

That the same happened via a nerve-wracking 51-run ninth-wicket partnership between Marco Jansen (16*) and Kagiso Rabada (31*) literally sums up the Proteas’ tendency to produce enthralling encounters with qualification or titles up for grabs.

Resuming from their overnight score of 27/3 in a 148-run chase against Pakistan in Centurion, South Africa lost as many as four wickets for as many runs including a brain-fade moment featuring captain Temba Bavuma (40) to regenerate numerous heart-breaking memories of the past.

Jansen And Rabada Stun Pakistan With A Heroic Knock

However, Jansen and Rabada joined hands for their sixth-highest stand for this particular wicket in the fourth innings of a Test match. The duo accomplished the task on the back of hitting eight fours across the eight overs of their existence on Day 4 to bring up only the eighth successful Test run-chase at the SuperSport Park.

Having laid emphasis on the need for “discipline” after securing a six-wicket haul yesterday, Jansen matched his words with appropriate actions to not enter the New Year’s Test under pressure of registering a victory.







The first South Africa-Pakistan Test, however, will also be remembered for the return of Pakistan pacer Mohammad Abbas. Playing an international match after being left out for inexplicable reasons for more than three years, the 34-year-old player picked career-best bowling figures of 19.3-6-54-6 on Sunday.