Overview
- Pakistan beat South Africa by four wickets in Lahore to take the three-match T20I series 2–1, chasing 140 with six balls to spare.
- Babar Azam top-scored with 68 off 47 in the decider, sharing a 76-run stand with captain Salman Ali Agha as Shaheen Shah Afridi led the bowling with 3 for 26 and debutant Usman Tariq took 2 for 26.
- The previous match delivered the landmark moment as Babar surpassed Rohit Sharma to become the all-time leading run-scorer in men’s T20Is during a nine-wicket win.
- Pakistan’s turnaround was built on incisive bowling and Saim Ayub’s unbeaten 71 in the second T20I after Salman Mirza (3–14) and Faheem Ashraf (4–23) bundled South Africa out for 110.
- Babar also set a new benchmark for most fifty-plus scores in T20Is with 40, achieved in the series clincher, and Pakistan now shifts to a three-match ODI series in Faisalabad from November 4.