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South Africa versus Pakistan

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00:00this test match has changed course south africa now in the lead by 35 runs and for a team that
00:12doesn't bat that brightly in the second innings there's got to be pressure on sean masood and
00:16company well test cricket is about challenge so you've got to challenge yourself the pitch
00:20has subsided just a little bit it's a feeling that I'm getting up here beautifully played
00:26through the offside no cushion there so big chase for barbara azam at least two if not three they come
00:33back for the third the problem is rum is and you know as well as I do that when you feeling like
00:39you're on the back foot and things aren't going according to plan the surface seems to be not
00:44happening when you've got pressure then all of a sudden there seems to be kremlins and then that's
00:48where you feel that this game's at pakistan's mental spaces whoops we're waiting for something
00:53to happen and the wicket has flattened out but when they come out to bat it might be a different
00:58kettle of fish there's one trying to keep them nice and happy
01:11i've got to still maintain good body posture body language shoulders must not droop
01:16but how well is middle the ball i mean we talk a great deal about uh the shots that he's played
01:24but on a difficult kind of a surface especially for somebody like rabata is timed the ball beautifully
01:31that ball looks superb for reverse swing as well if you can have a look at how one side is shiny the
01:37other one scuffed up these batters they would have been preparing for the innings for the last
01:42probably hour and a bit
01:48this is frowning up just a little bit in conversation
01:52rizwan and salman aliaga that looks pretty cool
02:02because definitely it'll be about technique but more so about the mental aptitude and
02:07what is the mental capacity of pakistan moving forward in this game because now the lead is with
02:12south africa approaches lead by 38 and he's led them into action the short ball trying to play a straight
02:21drive and starting to use his feet to the fastboilers
02:37yes somehow he gets it away the yorker
02:42is played rather nicely for a run so he's off strike and he's on 47 his career best
02:48tell you what that was a proper delivery that one had dipped that was almost like the old waka
02:51eunice used to do had an in-swing late in-swing dip well dealt with there by bravada
03:00as i said we had to look up at that close-up of the ball when babra azim was giving it a shine and
03:04boy oh boy it looks primed it looks perfect condition to be reversing it's been scuffed on the
03:09one side because of the nature of the pitch and nicely shined on the other this one's going to be
03:14another in-swinger to mutasami obviously got his hands cup to not show it but it is going to
03:22be the innie beautifully played once again waiting on the ball ball tailing back into the stumps
03:37as a batter when you've been at the crease for a lot a period of time you can actually work out
03:41what the ball is going to do you can watch the bowler as he runs in you can see a big discrepancy
03:46between the shiny side and the lighter side there you'll start looking for it as he runs in and
03:51you'll be able to see that it's going to be shaping in towards you unless he changes it as he runs in
03:56slices it runs for a mutasami picks up two and so the fun continues for uh mutasami is into the 80s
04:12and rabata 47 68 run partnership south africa lead by 41. yes they're both going to be starting to think
04:20about milestones they have to bat for each other have a look at that now that tells a story in the
04:26series last four wicked contributions in the series 50 from pakistan so that's three innings best
04:34partnership of 16. south africa the last four wicked contributions 282 at an average of just under 26
04:42and the best partnership of 71 this one's 68 so that could be improved now
04:46my strong recommendation to you polly and to south africa is to get those last four into top
04:54four positions if we just get the top six batting properly
05:02it shows um how good a space that dressing room is when the tail is fighting you know that
05:07you're in good shape salman aliaga comes on to ball
05:12chance at the non-striker's end mutasami there
05:17initially thinking of a run he'll now get that
05:20courtesy overthrow in pakistan had been frivolous in the overthrows department is that his high score
05:26now kg yep previous best was 47 i will have to get that graphic up he's improved and once again the
05:34the strike rate is phenomenal better than a run of ball 48 of 35 this time
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