Live Scores-Honours even as Pakistan hit back

Third Test, Cape Town, day one (stumps): South Africa 131-5 v Pakistan 157
Here are the Live scores


South Africa ended a wicket-laden first day of the deciding third Test on 131-5 after skittling Pakistan for only 157.

Makhaya Ntini and Jacques Kallis took four wickets each on a greenish pitch and the tourists would have fared even worse but for Mohammad Yousuf's 83.

He hit 10 fours and a six in a 90-ball knock before Mohammad Asif took two wickets as the Proteas also struggled.

Skipper Graeme Smith hit a fluent 64 but was well caught off Shahid Nazir by opposite number Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Yousuf and Smith deserved the most plaudits for surviving where plenty of others failed on a surface offering plenty of bounce and movement off the seam.

Mohammad Hafeez and Yasir Hameed soon edged Ntini to slip, while Imran Farhat was dropped by AB de Villiers off Ntini before fending Kallis to the same region.
When Younis Khan chased a wide one from Kallis to de Villiers to make it 54-4, Yousuf decided he had seen enough and launched a succession of glorious drives.

The prolific right-hander also cracked Kallis over fine-leg for six but, with wickets tumbling at the other end, he was forced into desperate strokes in the afternoon and was last man out trying to heave Ntini away on the off-side.

South Africa's reply also got off to a poor start when Asif jagged his third ball in to trap Boeta Dippenaar lbw before Hashim Amla nicked behind in his next over.

Smith, like Yousuf, realised attack was the best way out and crashed a succession of boundaries off Mohammad Sami and Nazir.

He had put on 80 with Kallis when the latter drove lazily at Mohammad Sami to inside-edge behind and Smith was also on his way when Inzamam stuck out his left hand to pluck a stunner at slip.

That looked to be the end of the day's drama until leg-spinner Danish Kaneria produced a fantastic googly to comprehensively bowl de Villiers.