South Africa were comfortably ahead at the stumps as the third day ended up being the moving day of the ongoing second Test in Rawalpindi as the tail wagged and how for the visitors, adding 169 runs for the final two wickets.

South Africa’s premier pacer Kagiso Rabada frustrated Pakistan with the bat, registering his maiden fifty on Day 3 (Wednesday, October 22) of the ongoing second Test of the two-match series.

After an initial delay, the match was curtailed to 40-over-per side with South Africa scoring 312 for 9 riding on Laura Wolvaardt's 90 and half-centuries from Sune Luus (61) and Marizanne Kapp (68)

South Africa had two huge partnerships of 71 and 98 for the last couple of wickets, featuring Senuran Muthusamy, who remained unbeaten on 89 to push their first-innings score to 404 and take a handy lead of 71 runs.

Impressive half centuries from the bats of captain Laura Wolvaardt, Sune Luus and Marizanne Kapp, along with a cameo from Nadine de Klerk powered the Proteas women to a monster 312-9 batting first against Pakistan in their Cricket World Cup pool clash at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday.

Kagiso Rabada smacked 71 off just 61 deliveries to flip the script in Rawalpindi and give South Africa the lead.

Pakistan team management is confident Babar Azam will be able to score big, sooner than latter. Babar has endured a prolonged lean patch, failing in the second innings of the ongoing Test against South Africa in Rawalpindi.