{"id":88875,"date":"2025-01-03T23:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/south-africa-wins-toss-choose-to-bat-against-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:04:32","slug":"south-africa-wins-toss-choose-to-bat-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/south-africa-wins-toss-choose-to-bat-against-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa wins toss, choose to bat against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"featuredimg\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <!-- popular full --><\/p>\n<p class=\"captionimg\">South Africa wins toss, choose to bat against Pakistan<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first against Pakistan in the second Test of the two-match series at Newlands, Cape Town, on Friday.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Playing XIs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Pakistan<\/strong>: Shan Masood (C), Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel, Salman Ali Agha, Aamir Jamal, Mir Hamza, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Africa<\/strong>: Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Wiaan Mulder, Tristan Stubbs, Temba Bavuma (C), David Bedingham, Kyle Verreynne (WK), Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Kwena Maphaka.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Head to Head<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Pakistan and South Africa have faced each other in 29 Test matches. Of these, Pakistan won 6, while South Africa secured victory 16 times, with 7 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Matches Played<\/strong>: 29<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pakistan Wins<\/strong>: 6<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Africa Wins<\/strong>: 16<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drawn Matches<\/strong>: 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"alsoread\">\n<h4 class=\"text-uppercase mb-10 mt-20 fs-18\">Also Read<\/h4>\n<div class=\"post-box sty22\">\n<div class=\"post-frame js-ratioHtP\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FotoJet-2025-01-02T175528.217-254x144.jpg\" alt=\"South Africa make three changes ahead of second Pakistan Test\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<h5 class=\"title\">South Africa make three changes ahead of second Pakistan Test<\/h5>\n<p>CAPE TOWN: Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced its Playing XI on Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2025\/01\/south-africa-make-three-changes-ahead-of-second-pakistan-test\/\" class=\"post-link\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa wins toss, choose to bat against Pakistan South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first against Pakistan in the second Test of the two-match series at Newlands, Cape Town, on Friday. Playing XIs Pakistan: Shan Masood (C), Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel, Salman Ali Agha, Aamir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SA.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}