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rawalpindi: The No. 11 batter Kagiso Rabada and Senuran Muthusamy hit career-best half-centuries as South Africa scripted one of their most memorable comebacks to dominate Pakistan on Day 3 of the second and final Test.

South Africa were all out Wednesday for 404 in their first innings — having resumed on 185-4 and being reduced to 235-8 and 306-9 — to take a 71-run lead. Pakistan’s left-arm spinner Asif Afridi claimed six wickets and became the oldest bowler in Test cricket to grab a five-wicket haul in his debut test at the age of 38.

Pakistan collapsed to 94-4 in its second innings at stumps. Off-spinner Simon Harmer took 3-26 and Rabada had Abdullah Shafique caught in the slips cordon in his incisive opening spell with the new ball.

Babar Azam, who hasn’t scored an internati

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