Buffalo Park: As the match between Pakistan and South Africa Invitation XI continues, more worries arose for the Pakistan Middle order line-up. Once again in the 2nd innings the Pakistan middle order collapsed and showed no discussable performance except the Capitan himself who scored a half century.
Pakistan experienced batsmen Younis Khan on whose shoulders is the responsibility of team has once again let the hopes down and just 14 runs, the other two batsmen Asad Shafiq and Azhar Ali who were expected to lift the Pakistan team batting had also not given a reasonable performance and failed to the South African domestic bowlers. Younis Khan managed to contribute with 19 runs overall, Azhar Ali could collectively score 5 runs of his 2 innings and Asad Shafiq could only score 15 runs in the match.
Though both Pakistani openers have shown good performances along with the Pakistan bowlers and managed to give a target of 323, yet the below average performance by the middle order is a question mark.