DAY 4: Afridi, Noman share 8 wickets as Pakistan win by 93-runs

Shaheen Afridi claimed three of the last four wickets to help dismiss South Africa for 183 in their second innings and bowl Pakistan to a 93-run victory an hour after lunch on the fourth day of the first test at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Wednesday.

South Africa took lunch on 137-6 with all realistic hopes of chasing 277 for victory having disappeared in the morning session and the tall left-arm fast bowler made sure of victory in emphatic fashionby trapping Kyle Verreynne (19) lbw before clean bowling Prenelan Subrayen and Kagiso Rabada.

Dewald Brevis scored a dazzling, run-a-ball 54 in the morning session to briefly raised the tourists expectations but the writing was on the wall when Afridi pinned Tony de Zorzi (16) lbw with the third ball of the day on his way to figures of 4-33.

Resuming on 51-2 the Proteas hopes lay with first innings centurion, de Zorzi, and opener Ryan Rickelton but it was not to be. Tristan Stubbs (2) reverse-swept left arm spinner Noman Ali straight to Salman Agha at slip – just the eighth ball of his innings – and Brevis was bowled by a beauty from Noman which pitched on leg stump and hit the top of off.

Brevis counter-attacked in brilliant style twice driving Noman for straight sixes and adding half a dozen fours on both sides of the wicket but had no answer to a delivery which would have bowled most right handers.

Rickelton’s long, defensive vigil came to an end with an edge against offspinner Sajid Khan (2-38) which was well caught low to the ground by Salman Agha, his fifth slip catch of the match.

Noman’s 4-79 at the break gave him his third 10-wicket haul in just 21 test matches, a remarkable start to a belated career for the 39-year-old.

PAKISTAN: Imam-ul-Haq, Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood (captain), Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wkt), Salman Agha, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan

SOUTH AFRICA: Tony de Zorzi, Ryan Rickelton, Wiaan Mulder, Aiden Markram (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Kyle Verreynne (wkt), Senuran Muthusamy, Prenelan Subrayen, Kagiso Rabada, Simon Harmer