Summary De Villiers hit a robust century and led South Africa to 268-7 against Pakistan in 5th ODI.
SHARJAH (AP) - Captain AB de Villiers hit a robust century and led South Africa to 268-7 against Pakistan's erratic seamers in the fifth and final one-day international on Monday.
De Villiers, who won his fourth toss of the series, made a splendid unbeaten 115 off 102 balls, hitting 10 fours and three sixes.
Pakistan has already lost the series as it trails 3-1 and its best total so far in the series is 238 last Friday at Abu Dhabi.
De Villiers upped the scoring tempo late in the innings when he added 83 runs off just 56 balls for the sixth wicket with Ryan McLaren (27) as the Proteas scored 114 in the last 10 overs against some wayward bowling.
De Villiers also became the fastest South African batsman to complete 6,000 runs in 153 ODIs and surpassed Gary Kirsten and Graeme Smith, who both took 160 matches to achieve the feat.
Pakistan did well through spinners Saeed Ajmal (3-45) and Shahid Afridi (1-37) in the middle of the innings despite Faf du Plessis (46) adding 62 off 96 balls with de Villiers.
Pakistan got a lucky breakthrough when Hashim Amla did not take a review after he was adjudged leg before wicket off tall fast bowler Mohammad Irfan as the television replays showed the ball had pitched outside the leg stump.
Quinton de Kock (34) hit the giant Irfan for four successive boundaries before Ajmal had him lbw and JP Duminy (2) was caught well close to the wicket by Ahmad Shehzad.
Ajmal had David Miller caught off his own bowling in the powerplay to put South Africa on 150-5 before Pakistan lost the plot badly and surprisingly Mohammad Hafeez (1-10) was not recalled after bowling three decent overs early in the innings.
De Villiers raised his half century off 70 balls when he pulled Ajmal's short delivery to midwicket for a six but needed just further 32 balls to score his remaining 65 runs with nine fours and two more sixes.
South Africa has rested its three frontline bowlers
Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and legspinner Imran Tahir giving Vernon Philander and leftarm spinner Robin Peterson their first matches of the series. Wayne Parnell also returned after playing in the first two matches.
