South Africa’s team was all out for the first time in the limited overs format in a match against Afghanistan.
South Africa’s team is playing a three-match bilateral series against Afghanistan in ODI format for the first time. The first match of this series is being played at Sharjah ground, in which the host Afghanistan’s bowlers have shown an amazing performance. South African team, who won the toss and decided to bat first, were all out at a score of 106 in just 33.3 overs in this match. Fazhlak Farooqui took the maximum of 4 wickets in bowling for Afghanistan.
For the first time, South Africa’s team was restricted to limited overs format against Afghanistan
In international cricket, before this match, South Africa had played 2 ODIs and 3 T20 matches against Afghanistan in the limited overs format and their team was not all out in any match. However, with this match, this rhythm against the Afghan team has also ended. South Africa lost 7 wickets for a score of 36 in the powerplay of the first 10 overs. After this, on the basis of the innings of 52 runs by Vian Mulder and 16 runs by Bjorn Fortuin, the team was able to cross the score of 100 runs. There were 7 players in the batting of the African team who could not even touch the double digit figure. In bowling for Afghanistan, Fazhlak Farooqui took 4 wickets in his 7 overs, while Allah Ghazanfar took 3 wickets while star leg spinner Rashid Khan, who was returning to international cricket after a long time, managed to take 2 wickets.
South Africa made their 7th joint lowest score in ODIs
This is the 7th joint lowest score of South Africa in ODIs. The lowest score of South Africa in ODIs was in the 1993 match against Australia in which they were bowled out for 69.
Africa team’s lowest score in ODI
- 69 runs – vs Australia (1993)
- 83 runs – vs India (2023)
- 83 runs – vs England (2008)
- 83 runs – vs England (2022)
- 99 runs – vs India (2022)
- 101 runs – vs Pakistan (2000)
- 106 runs – vs Australia (2002)
- 106 runs – vs Afghanistan (2024)
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