Pakistani national cricket team in South Africa in the 2012/13 season

The tour of the Pakistani national cricket team to South Africa in the 2012/13 season took place from February 1 to March 24, 2013. The international cricket tour was part of the 2012/13 international cricket season and included three tests , five ODIs and two Twenty20s . South Africa won the Test Series 3–0 and the ODI Series 3–2, while Pakistan won the Twenty20 Series 1–0.

prehistory

South Africa recently played a tour against New Zealand , Pakistan in India . The last tour of the two teams against each other took place in the 2010/11 season in the United Arab Emirates .

Stages

Durban (SSK) Centurion Johannesburg Cape Town Bloemfontein Benoni

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and were set on June 5, 2012.

city	Stadion	capacity	Games
Benoni	Willowmoore Park	20,000	5. ODI
Bloemfontein	Chevrolet Park	20,000	1. ODI
Centurion	Centurion Park	22,000	3rd test; 2. ODI; 2. T20
Durban	Sahara Stadium Kingsmead	25,000	4. ODI; 1. T20
Cape Town	Newlands Cricket Ground	25,000	2nd test
Johannesburg	Wanderers Stadium	34,000	1st test; 3. ODI

Squad lists

Pakistan named its Test squad on January 11, and its ODI and Twenty20 squad on February 20, 2013. South Africa named its Test squad on January 20, and its ODI and Twenty20 squad on February 20, 2013.

test		ODI		Twenty20
Pakistan	South Africa	Pakistan	South Africa	Pakistan	South Africa
Misbah-ul-Haq ( K ) Ehsan Adil Sarfraz Ahmed ( wk ) Tanvir Ahmed Saeed Ajmal Azhar Ali Rahat Ali Imran Farhat Umar Gul Mohammad Hafeez Faisal Iqbal Mohammad Irfan Nasir Jamshed Junaid Khan Younis Khan Abdur Rehman Asad Shafiq Haris Sohail Taufeeq Umar	Graeme Smith ( K ) Kyle Abbott Hashim Amla AB de Villiers ( wk ) Dean Elgar Jacques Kallis Rory Kleinveldt Morne Morkel Alviro Petersen Robin Peterson Vernon Philander Faf du Plessis Jacques Rudolph Dale Steyn Imran Tahir	Mohammad Hafeez ( K ) Shahid Afridi Saeed Ajmal Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Umar Akmal Asad Ali Umar Amin Zulfiqar Babar Umar Gul Mohammad Irfan Nasir Jamshed Junaid Khan Shoaib Malik Wahab Riaz Ahmed Shehzad	Faf du Plessis ( K ) Kyle Abbott Farhaan Behardien Henry Davids Quinton de Kock ( wk ) AB de Villiers Rory Kleinveldt Ryan McLaren David Miller Chris Morris Justin Ontong Robin Peterson Aaron Phangiso Lonwabo Tsotsobe	Misbah-ul-Haq ( K ) Shahid Afridi Saeed Ajmal Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Umar Akmal Imran Farhat Umar Gul Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Irfan Nasir Jamshed Junaid Khan Younis Khan Shoaib Malik Abdur Rehman Wahab Riaz Asad Shafiq	AB de Villiers ( K & wk ) Kyle Abbott Hashim Amla Farhaan Behardien Faf du Plessis Colin Ingram Rory Kleinveldt Ryan McLaren David Miller Morne Morkel Robin Peterson Aaron Phangiso Graeme Smith Dale Steyn Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Tour matches

January 25-28 Scorecard	East London	Pakistanis 329 (102.3) & 250-9d (84.4)	-	SA Invitational XI 257 (76.5) & 190-5 (50)
		draw

February 10-11 Scorecard	Cape Town	Emerging Cape Cobras 156 (58.5) & 78 (29)	-	Pakistanis 176-6d (50) & 126-1 (43)
		Pakistanis wins with 10 wickets

March 6th scorecard	Kimberley	SA Invitational XI 266-8 (50)	-	Pakistanis 270-9 (49.4)
		Pakistanis wins with 1 wicket

Testing

First test in Johannesburg

February 1st - 4th scorecard	Johannesburg	South Africa 253 (85.2) & 273-3d (62)	-	Pakistan 49 (29.1) & 268 (100.4)
		South Africa wins with 211 runs

Second test in Cape Town

February 14th - 17th Scorecard	Cape Town	Pakistan 338 (116.2) & 169 (75.3)	-	South Africa 326 (102.1) & 185-6 (43.1)
		South Africa wins with 4 wickets

Third test in Centurion

February 22nd - 24th scorecard	Centurion	South Africa 409 (103.2) & 235 (78)	-	Pakistan 156 (46.4)
		South Africa wins with one innings and 18 runs

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Durban

March 1st scorecard	Durban	South Africa	-	Pakistan
		Game canceled

Second Twenty20 in Centurion

March 3 scorecard	Centurion	Pakistan 195-7 (20)	-	South Africa 100 (12.2)
		Pakistan wins with 95 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Bloemfontein

March 10 scorecard	Bloemfontein	South Africa 315-4 (50)	-	Pakistan 190 (36.2)
		South Africa wins with 125 runs

Second ODI in Centurion

March 15 scorecard	Centurion	South Africa 191 (43.2 / 44)	-	Pakistan 192-4 (39.2 / 44)
		Pakistan wins with 6 wickets ( D / L method )

Third ODI in Johannesburg

March 17th Scorecard	Johannesburg	South Africa 343-5 (50)	-	Pakistan 309 (48.1)
		South Africa wins with 34 runs

Fourth ODI in Durban

March 21 scorecard	Durban	South Africa 234-9 (50)	-	Pakistan 236-7 (48.4)
		Pakistan wins with 3 wickets

Fifth ODI in Benoni

March 24th scorecard	Benoni	Pakistan 205 (49.1)	-	South Africa 208-4 (44)
		South Africa wins with 6 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
AB de Villiers	South Africa	3	5	352	88.00	121	2	1
Hashim Amla	South Africa	3	5	286	71.50	92	0	3
Asad Shafiq	Pakistan	3	6th	199	33.16	111	1	1
Younis Khan	Pakistan	3	6th	184	30.66	111	1	0
Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	3	6th	135	22.50	64	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Dale Steyn	South Africa	3	115.2	20th	12.90	6/8	2	1
Vernon Philander	South Africa	3	101	15th	15.80	5/59	1	0
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	3	130.1	11	33.18	6/96	1	1
Kyle Abbott	South Africa	1	28.4	9	7.55	7/29	1	0
Rahat Ali	Pakistan	2	52.2	6th	37.83	6/127	1	0
Robin Peterson	South Africa	3	73.2	6th	38.16	3/73	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
AB de Villiers	South Africa	5	5	367	91.75	128	1	3
Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	5	5	227	56.75	80	0	2
Hashim Amla	South Africa	5	5	204	40.80	122	1	0
Colin Ingram	South Africa	5	5	137	34.25	105 *	1	0
Farhaan Behardien	South Africa	5	5	134	44.66	58	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Mohammad Irfan	Pakistan	4th	33	11	13.72	4/33	0	0
Ryan McLaren	South Africa	5	42	10	18.70	3/19	0	0
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	5	48.2	8th	26.75	3/42	0	0
Junaid Khan	Pakistan	5	41	7th	29.28	3/45	0	0
Robin Peterson	South Africa	5	43	7th	35.28	2/46	0	0

Twenty20
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	1	1	86	86.00	86	0	1
Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	1	1	46	46.00	46	0	0
AB de Villiers	South Africa	1	1	36	36.00	36	0	0
Rory Kleinveldt	South Africa	1	1	22nd	22.00	22nd	0	0
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	1	1	19th		19 *	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Umar Gul	Pakistan	1	2.2	5	1.20	5/6	1	0
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	1	3	3	8.33	3/25	0	0
Rory Kleinveldt	South Africa	1	4th	2	13.50	2/27	0	0
Chris Morris	South Africa	1	4th	2	17.50	2/35	0	0
Junaid Khan	Pakistan	1	2	1	22.00	1/22	0	0
Mohammad Irfan	Pakistan	1	3	1	27.00	1/27	0	0
Lonwabo Tsotsobe	South Africa	1	4th	1	28.00	1/28	0	0
Kyle Abbott	South Africa	1	4th	1	41.00	1/41	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	AB de Villiers
ODI	AB de Villiers

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Dale Steyn
2nd test	Robin Peterson
3rd test	Kyle Abbott
2. T20	Mohammad Hafeez
1. ODI	Colin Ingram
2. ODI	Mohammad Irfan
3. ODI	Hashim Amla AB de Villiers
4. ODI	Misbah-ul-Haq
5. ODI	AB de Villiers

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Firdose Moonda: South Africa replace Boxing Day Test with T20 ( English ) Cricinfo. June 5, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
2. ↑ Umar Farooq: Mohammad Irfan, Ehsan Adil in Test squad ( English ) Cricinfo. January 11, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
3. ↑ Umar Farooq: Shahid Afridi makes ODI comeback ( English ) Cricinfo. February 20, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
4. ↑ Philander returns for Pakistan Tests ( English ) Cricinfo. January 20, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
5. ↑ Du Plessis appointed full-time T20 captain ( English ) Cricinfo. February 20, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
6. ↑ Records / Pakistan in South Africa Test Series, 2012/13 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / Pakistan in South Africa Test Series, 2012/13 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / Pakistan in South Africa ODI Series, 2012/13 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / Pakistan in South Africa ODI Series, 2012/13 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / Pakistan in South Africa T20I Series, 2012/13 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / Pakistan in South Africa T20I Series, 2012/13 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 26, 2016.