Allen McLaughlin
BBC Test Match Special

"It's a very good crowd in today, but there are a lot of South Africans who live in Auckland."

Steyn, who I was most surprised to see play a particularly bizarre cameo in the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore film Blended, returns for the batting powerplay but he is pulled away to the mid-wicket fence by the diminutive Umar. Time for drinks and the wind is picking up. Is there a a storm on the way?

They do have some beautiful outfields in New Zealand. Eden Park is not a pretty ground, it's a vast concrete arena in essence, but the playing area has immaculately manicured, chequered turf. I bet the Kiwi free range produce is something pretty special too. AB is not going to go through to 10 overs, he brings back reliable, bustling seamer Abbott, who duly concedes only two singles. Weather holding up but showers are still expected.

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Pakistan 167-4 from 35 overs (South Africa won toss)

Batsmen: Misbah 37, Umar Akmal 8

Fall of wickets: 30-1 (Shehzad 18), 92-2 (Sarfraz 49), 132-3 (Younus 37), 156-4 (Maqsood 8)

Bowling figures: Steyn 5-2-10-0, Abbott 7-0-29-2, Morkel 7-0-21-0, Tahir 7-1-27-0 De Villiers 6-0-43-1, Duminy 3-0-34-0

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Pellucid Ewer: Every time Pakistan lose a wicket, I'm thinking "it's ok, it's just one wicket closer to Boom Boom Afridi".

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Afridi is in next, but his batting has gone backwards since he was that teenager who came in and whacked it everywhere. His good innings are so infrequent now, I can't remember them."

Imran Tahir returns, number 99 on his back, scurrying in off his short angled run to deliver his box of tricks. Accurate stuff from the leg-spinner though, and just the single is scored. When are they going to press the accelerator? Afridi in next of course so he'll only play one way, one would imagine.

Elsewhere in Pool B, Ireland are seeking the win against Zimbabwe that will take them one step closer to the quarter-finals.

Zimbabwe have won the toss and will bowl in Hobart, Tasmania, which is hosting its first game of the tournament.

The last time these sides met in the World Cup, in 2007, they shared a thrilling tie.

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Umar Akmal is the new batsman and he gets off the mark second ball with a flick off his pads to the boundary off De Villiers. Again there is only one boundary in the over and AB has got through six now, as many as he has ever sent down in an ODI.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"He was forcing it off the back foot and it went like a rocket but he forgot that batting is about hitting it past the fielders. South Africa are a good fielding team and they don't drop many. That was a gimme, it wasn't there to be hit. Pakistan have an opportunity to make 300 but if they don't, they haven't done as well as they should have done."

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Pakistan have been the picture of inconsistency as usual in this event, scores of 224, 160, 235 and 339. You'd imagine De Villiers could make this total on his own so they are going to need plenty more. But Maqsood departs, forcing off the back foot and smartly caught at backward point.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"I was medium-slow ordinary but this is medium-slow rubbish. You wouldn't bowl this in club cricket."

Thanks Higgy. Well they used to say double the score after 30 overs which would be 294 but, rather like QI, this tournament is changing everything we previously thought to be true. AB continues with his pedestrian seamers, there is a a shockingly wide wide but only one boundary as Misbah pummels a long hop.

The skies are getting a little greyer in Auckland and the wind is rippling across the players' shirts. Kyle Abbott is back on to bowl and Maqsood walks down the track to the fast bowler - just as opener Sarfraz did earlier - and ducks under a bouncer. Just two from the over. Now it's time for me to hand over to Jamie Lillywhite for a while. See you later on.

Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Captaincy now, with the way the regulations are set up, gives an opportunity to attack strongly. McCullum would not do this, after claiming the wicket, he would be straight in with his main bowlers. De Villiers wants to get rid of his overs."

AB continues to have a bowl. He might send down some innocuous stuff, but you always expect him to chip in with the odd wicket. He's got two in the tournament now, which is the same as James Anderson who took his brace against Scotland and is wicketless against everyone else. Misbah belts the final ball of a decent over for four through the leg side.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Players with at least five stumpings and at least five wickets in their ODI career:

Jimmy Adams (5 stumped, 43 wickets)

Brendan Taylor (20 stumped, 9 wickets)

Hashan Tillakaratne (6 stumped, 6 wickets)

AB de Villiers (5 stumped, 5 wickets)"

Morne Morkel has only conceded runs today when he has bowled too full, and he is punched down the ground for two by Sohaib, then pushed for four by the same batsman.

Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Just when the stand was starting to threaten, South Africa have got a wicket when they needed it. Younus is angry with himself for getting out."

Enter Sohaib Maqsood, to accompany Misbah into the final 23 overs.