South Africa vs. Pakistan, 2nd T20: Scorecard, Recap and More from Cape Town

Pakistan squared the series with a narrow six-run win over South Africa in Cape Town in the second T20 on Friday.

A thrilling match was set up by Pakistan, who scored 176 for four wickets batting first.

South Africa found chasing hard work but were never out of the contest, producing a enthralling finale in which 36 were required from the final two overs.

JP Duminy and David Miller bludgeoned and sliced their way to 19 runs from the penultimate over.

It was not to be however, with Sohail Tanvir keeping his cool to make sure that South Africa came up six runs short of the victory target.

It meant the two-match series was tied at 1-1. 

Batsman	Dismissal	Runs	Mins	Balls
Nasir Jamshed	st †de Kock b Phangiso	19	33	19
Ahmed Shehzad	c Amla b Parnell	9	17	11
Mohammad Hafeez*	c de Villiers b Steyn	63	53	41
Umar Akmal†	c Duminy b Steyn	64	55	37
Shahid Afridi	not out	13	17	14
Sohaib Maqsood	not out	0	1	0
Extras	(lb 2, w 4, nb 2)	8
Bowling	O	M	R	W
M Morkel	4	0	37	0
DW Steyn	4	0	29	2
WD Parnell	4	1	37	1
D Wiese	3	0	24	0
AM Phangiso	3	0	33	1

Pakistan made a sedate start, and had only reached 44 from 7.2 overs when they lost both their opening batsmen.

But Mohammad Hafeez (63 from 41 balls) and Umar Akmal (64 from 37) combined to devastating effect, adding 102 runs together in their partnership and propelling the Pakistan team over to a sizeable total.

Dale Steyn picked up both their wickets in the final overs and emerged with the best figures of 2-29 from his four overs.

South Africa began solidly through opening duo Hashim Amla (48 from 40) and Quinton de Kock (26 from 24), but the cheap dismissals of Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers stalled their progress.

Shahid Afridi, who took three wickets, was a constant danger.

Duminy resuscitated their challenge, and his unbeaten 47 from 26 balls very nearly dragged the Proteas over the line—but Pakistan held their nerve.

	Batsman	Dismissal	Runs	Mins	Balls
View dismissal	HM Amla	c Bilawal Bhatti b Saeed Ajmal	48	67	40
View dismissal	Q de Kock†	c Nasir Jamshed b Shahid Afridi	26	30	24
View dismissal	F du Plessis*	c Mohammad Hafeez b Shahid Afridi	6	9	10
View dismissal	AB de Villiers	b Shahid Afridi	13	7	8
	JP Duminy	not out	47	41	26
	DA Miller	not out	22	24	13
	Extras	(lb 4, w 3, nb 1)	8
	Bowling	O	M	R	W
	Mohammad Hafeez	3	0	26	0
	Sohail Tanvir	3	0	34	0
	Junaid Khan	2	0	29	0
	Saeed Ajmal	4	0	30	30
	Bilawal Bhatti	4	0	19	0
	Shahid Afridi	4	0	28	3

The two sides next clash in a three-match ODI series, with the first game starting on Sunday.