The second ODI between South Africa, who opted to bowl first after winning the toss, and Pakistan is taking place on Thursday at the Newlands.
PLAYING XIs:
Pakistan: Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan(C/WK), Kamran Ghulam, Salman Ali Agha, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed
South Africa: Tony de Zorzi, Temba Bavuma (C), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Marco Jansen, Andile Phehlukwayo, Bjorn Fortuin, Kwena Maphaka, Tabraiz Shamsi
HEAD TO HEAD
Pakistan and South Africa have confronted each other in 84 ODI matches. Of these, 31 were won by Pakistan, whereas South Africa won 52 and one ended without results.
Matches played: 84
Pakistan won: 31 South Africa’s wins: 52
FORM GUIDE
Pakistan will carry forward the winning momentum after back-to-back ODI series victories over Australia and Zimbabwe as they eye their third successive ODI series win.
The same, South Africa are also in a winning momentum as they defeated Ireland 2-1 in the previous series.
Pakistan: W, L, W, W, W (most recent first) South Africa: W, W, W, L, L