There will be competition with Pakistan South Africa In the second of the three-match T20I series. This article provides details about the playing 11 of Pakistan vs South Africa for the second match of the series.
Pakistan Playing XI vs South Africa- 2nd T20I, Pakistan tour of South Africa 2025:
Openers: Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub
After a disappointing defeat in the first three-match T20 series against South Africa, when Pakistan takes the field in the next match, it will aim to maintain its chances of victory.
The Salman Ali Aga-led side will be confident of doing so, considering Pakistan’s good record against South Africa at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, the ground which is going to host the second T20I.
The home team has won two of the three matches played against South Africa at this particular venue, while the Proteas have got the better of Pakistan on one occasion.,
All three PAK vs SA T20I games played here so far were part of a three-match T20I series that the two sides played in 2021.
The team management and captain will have to decide whether they would like to make any changes to the team for the upcoming games, which seems highly unlikely, considering that the series is only one match old.
It is expected that Pakistan will field with the same playing eleven that played in the first T20 match and better performance is expected in all three disciplines.
In all likelihood, Pakistan will open the batting with Sahibzada Farhan and Saim Ayub and will support the pair to get the team off to a good start.
Individually too, Sahibzada Farhan and Sam Ayub will look to convert their starts into match-winning innings.
Middle-order batsmen and all-rounders: Babar Azam, Salman Agha (captain), Usman Khan (wicketkeeper), Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf,
After the opening pair, it will be the responsibility of the middle order which failed miserably while chasing the target of 195 runs in the first T20 match.
The middle order, which included names like Babar Azam, Salman Aga, Usman Khan and Hasan Nawaz, looked weak against some good bowling from the South African bowlers.
The home team’s middle order will have to take responsibility and perform well in the next game to give the team any chance of putting up a fight with the bat.,
The responsibility of scoring most of the runs for the team when batting first or while chasing the target will be on the top five batsmen.,
Bowlers: Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed
As far as the bowling lineup was concerned, it was the fast bowlers who gave away runs in the beginning and end of the innings, with veteran fast bowler Shaheen Afridi giving away a lot of runs in the 17th over, which changed the momentum.
Afridi would like to perform much better in the second match of the series than the previous match.
Afridi’s bowling partner Naseem Shah made a good comeback in the third over after being costly in his first few overs, which played an important role in restricting South Africa to less than 200 runs.
Naseem would like to do something similar with the new ball in the second T20 match so that the opposition team can be restricted to a lower score than usual.
Amidst the onslaught of the first six overs, the spinners did their job by pulling things back in the middle stages of the innings, with Mohammad Nawaz and Sam Ayub being the pick of the bowlers, and they will look to continue the good work.
