New Delhi: South Africa's star batsman Ryan Rickleton created history by performing brilliantly in the Test match being played against Pakistan in Cape Town. Rickleton completely troubled the Pakistani bowlers by scoring a brilliant double century. He scored 259 runs, which included 29 fours and 3 sixes. Thanks to this brilliant inning of Rickleton, the South African team crossed the 600-run mark in its first innings. Apart from Rickleton, Temba Bavuma and Kyle Warren also made excellent contributions to the team by scoring centuries.
South Africa scored 615 runs in its first innings against Pakistan and tightened the score till all out. In this innings, Rickleton had opened for the team and he gave a tough challenge to the bowlers by scoring 259 runs in 343 balls. Bavuma also played a brilliant inning of 106 runs, in which he hit 9 fours and 2 sixes.
Kyle Warren also scored a century, he scored 100 runs in 147 balls, which included 9 fours and 5 sixes. Marco Jansen also strengthened the team's score by scoring a half-century. He scored 62 runs in 54 balls, which included 8 fours and 3 sixes. Keshav Maharaj also contributed his innings by scoring 40 runs in 35 balls, which included 4 fours and 2 sixes. The beginning of this innings was very bad for Pakistan. They lost three wickets for just 20 runs. Captain Shan Masood was out after scoring 2 runs, Kamran Ghulam returned to the pavilion after scoring 12 runs and Saud Shakeel could not even open the account. Read Also: We don't cry like foreign teams, Sunil Gavaskar raised questions about the pitch, know the whole matter
