Summary Proteas were bowled out for 191 in the rain-shortened second one-day international on Friday.
CENTURION (AP) - Mohammad Irfan polished off South Africa s top order with a career-best 4-33 as Pakistan bowled out the Proteas for 191 in the rain-shortened second one-day international on Friday.
Rain stopped play for nearly 2 1/2 hours and the match was reduced to 44 overs a side.
The 2.16-meter (7-foot-1) paceman Irfan troubled batsmen with his extra bounce and removed Hashim Amla (17) and first ODI century-maker Colin Ingram off successive deliveries before getting rid of Graeme Smith (10) and Faf du Plessis (17) to leave South Africa reeling at 62-5 in 11 overs.
Farhaan Behardien (58) scored a fighting maiden half century and holed out in the deep a ball before the thunderstorm forced the players off the field in the 39th over. Robin Peterson (44) added 67 with Behardien before he was the last man to be dismissed in the 44th over.
Pakistan s decision to include a third paceman in place of a batsman paid off as South Africa captain AB de Villiers won the toss and elected to bat first.
Irfan extracted lot of bounce from the SuperSport Park pitch and found the edges of Amla s and Ingram s bats in his third over. Ingram was adjudged caught behind by television umpire Kumar Dharmasena despite inconclusive replays of hot spot.
De Villiers also misjudged the extra bounce of Junaid Khan and was caught in the slips while attempting to leave a short-pitched delivery off the left-arm paceman.
Irfan bowled a lengthy opening spell of seven overs and further dented South Africa with Smith getting a faint edge, and du Plessis was brilliantly caught and bowled by the diving fast bowler with his left hand.
Behardien repaired the innings with partnerships of 44 with Ryan McLaren (17) and another 67 off 108 balls with Robin Peterson.
Beherdien s dismissal and the immediate thunderstorm robbed the South Africans of momentum.
The home team was 177-7 in 38.4 overs when rain started and Pakistan did well to allow only 14 more runs when play resumed. Dale Steyn was tied down for 16 balls but could not open his account before he was bowled by Khan.
Steyn replaced Rory Kleinveldt in the only change made by South Africa from the team which defeated Pakistan by 125 runs in the first match of the five-game series last Sunday.
Offspinner Saeed Ajmal did well to contain South Africa with a tidy 2-23 while Khan (2-29) and Mohammad Hafeez (2-35) were also amongst the wickets.
