Pakistan Cricket team is proving its might in their home ever since International cricket has returned to their nation. Taking on South Africa during the first T20, Pakistan scored a total of 169 runs in 20 overs and in those 20 overs Pakistan wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan scored a blistering century which later became the match-winning innings. With this century of Rizwan, he became the second wicket-keeper batsman of the world to score a ton in all three formats.
Rizwan became only the second wicket-keeper batsman after former New Zealand cricketer Brendon McCullum to hit a ton in all three formats of the game. McCullum as a specialist keeper has scored 5 Test tons, 3 ODI tons, and 1 T20I hundred. Rizwan as a keeper has scored 2 hundred in ODIs and 1 each in Tests and T20I.
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Rizwan scored 104 runs off 64 balls which consisted of six boundaries and seven sixes. However, South Africa too showed the intent to win the game, however, the visitors lost the match by 2 runs.
For South Africa, Reeza Hendricks made a half-century, however, it was not good enough to win the first T20 in Lahore.