Overview
- Senuran Muthusamy produced a career-best 6-117, including three wickets in four balls, to trigger Pakistan’s collapse from 362-5 to 378 all out.
- Salman Ali Agha top-scored with 93 and Mohammad Rizwan made 75, their 163-run sixth-wicket stand setting a Pakistan record against South Africa.
- South Africa closed day two on 216-6 in reply, with Tony de Zorzi unbeaten on 81 after Ryan Rickelton’s 71 anchored the early resistance.
- Noman Ali led Pakistan’s bowling with 4 wickets, while Sajid Khan and Salman Ali Agha took one apiece to puncture South Africa’s middle order.
- Muthusamy became only the second visiting spinner to take six in a first innings of a Test in Pakistan, following Shane Warne’s haul at Lahore in 1994/95.