Summary

  • South Africa eliminated; Pakistan keep slim semi-final hopes alive with 49-run win

  • Du Plessis top-scores with 63 for SA - no Proteas player has scored more than 70 in tournament

  • Sohail's aggressive 89 off 59 helps Pakistan post 308-7

  • Tahir stars in field for SA - taking 2-41 in 10 overs, including smart return catch off Imam (44)

  • Leg-spinner becomes SA's leading wicket-taker in World Cup cricket (39)

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry, Jack Skelton and Thomas Mallows

  1. Ramiz Raja
    Ex-Pakistan captain on TMS

    That was so smooth and beautifully played. He's playing a brilliant hand here.

  2. Pak 191-3

    Sohail 28 off 15 balls

    Haris Sohail is on one today.

    A glorious square drive bisects the fielders and zips away to the fence.

  3. Ramiz Raja
    Ex-Pakistan captain on TMS

    Babar is a good-looking player - he's powerful down the ground, excellent against spin and pace. All he needs to do now is to convert. He needs a 100 here.

  4. 50 runs

    50 for Babar

    Babar Azam drives out to deep cover for a comfortable single that takes him to a fine 50.

    Can he kick on from here and help Pakistan reach 300 at least?

  5. Here are the strike rates of those three batsmen in this World Cup so far...

    Joe Root - 92.77

    Babar Azam - 85.59

    Kane Williamson - 80.56

    Not sure it's fair to put Root in that bracket and I don't think top of the table New Zealand are too concerned with Williamson.

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    Babar Azam, Root and Williamson are all good players, but I think they put unfair pressure on the rest of their team to sacrifice and go all out attack. It is no huge surprise their averages are so high...they all play at a strike-rate of 70-90. Which is always under par for what the team needs. So everyone else had to be the aggressor. I suspect De Grandhomme's average would be far better if he didn't have to up the rate every game due to Williamson's slow "platform".

    Richard, London

  7. Ramiz Raja
    Ex-Pakistan captain on TMS

    This is a critical stage of the game - if Pakistan are allowed to hit out freely it could be curtains for South Africa.

  8. Pak 184-3

    Run rate 5.26

    Pakistan have hit the nitrous - 13 from the over.

  9. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Haris Sohail gave that the full monty!

  10. 6 runs

    Pak 182-3

    Kagiso Rabada goes round the wicket, bangs it in short and Haris Sohail backs away to carve an almighty uppercut away for six.

    Brilliant strike.

  11. Isa Guha
    Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    That is the shot of the game from Haris Sohail.

  12. Pak 176-3

    Lovely stuff. Haris Sohail gets a full ball and caresses it down the ground for four.

  13. Pak 171-3

    Babar Azam gets one on his pads and deftly flicks it round the corner. Kagiso Rabada tries to cut it off on the angle, can't and has to give chase, the ball teasing him all the way into the rope.

    The poor lad is absolutely blowing now and has to bowl the next over.

    That's a big over for Pakistan off Markram - nine from it.

  14. Markram gets Hafeez lbw

    Letting Aiden Markram wheel through quick overs, not conceding many runs and picking up a wicket was not part of Pakistan's plan...

  15. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    You can see in Rabada's body language he's lacking intensity. I think he's coming back from an injury in this tournament and he might be feeling that.

    Kagiso RabadaAFP

  16. Pak 160-3

    And they're roaring again now! Kagiso Rabada pushes it full with a bit of width and Haris Sohail punches it through the covers for four.

  17. Isa Guha
    Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    There's just been a big roar from the crowd, because they saw Waqar Younis on the big screen. There's a lot of Pakistan fans in today.

  18. Hmm. Cricket is a game of such fine margins. Had Moeen Ali hit it a bit cleaner and cleared the rope, he'd have been a hero.

    I think England did go into their shell. I also think that trying to play expansively on that slow pitch was very tough and fraught with danger.

    This fence is very comfortable.

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    Swann talking nonsense about England - Stokes just needed others to read the situation and stay with him!

    Al in Bath

  20. Pak 156-3

    Markram 3-0-13-1

    Haris Sohail backs away and carves it on the angle to pick up three off Aiden Markram.

    A much better over for Pakistan - seven from it.

    Time for drinks.