Muhammad Rizwan makes multiple unwanted records in first T20I against South Africa

Pakistan white-ball captain Mohammad Rizwan secured multiple unwanted records during the first T20I against South Africa at Kingsmead.

The Green Shirts suffered an11-run defeat as they fell short of their target of 184 runs, despite Rizwan occupying the crease till the final over.

He scored a knock of 74 runs from 62 balls at a strike rate of 119.35 with the help of eight boundaries and three sixes.

Rizwan came in as an opener and had scored 46 runs from 49 balls by the end of the 16th over.

He targeted Kwena Maphaka, hitting two sixes in the next over and completing his half-century in 50 balls.

However, he couldn’t take his team across the line, as he was out on the second delivery of the final over.

The Pakistan Captain’s strike-rate of 119.35 marked his third-lowest in an innings where he scored over fifty runs. His unbeaten run-a-ball 53 against Canada during this year’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup remains his slowest fifty-plus innings to date.

The scratchy innings also ranked as the second slowest 70-run innings by a captain in men’s T20 Internationals, second to New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, who had scored 70 off 60 balls against Pakistan back in 2016.

Furthermore, Rizwan’s 62-ball 74 placed him fourth on the list of the slowest T20I innings by a full-member batter facing 60 or more balls in a chase.