Overview
- South Africa, set 277 to win, were dismissed for 183 on day four as Pakistan sealed the first Test by 93 runs.
- Noman Ali took 4-79 in the second innings to finish with 10 wickets in the match, while Sajid Khan and Shaheen Shah Afridi shared key breakthroughs.
- Senuran Muthusamy claimed a career-best 11/174 and Simon Harmer took 4/51, but Pakistan’s first-innings 378 proved decisive.
- Dewald Brevis hit a brisk 54 and Ryan Rickelton made 45 in a 73-run stand before Pakistan’s spinners regained control.
- Spinners accounted for 34 of the match’s 40 wickets on the deteriorating pitch, and the series moves to Rawalpindi for the second Test on Monday.