S Africa in stunning Twenty20 win

Twenty20 International, Johannesburg
South Africa 132-0 (11.3 overs) bt Pakistan 129-8 (20 overs) by 10 wickets
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Graeme Smith and Loots Bosman put on a Twenty20 world record 132 as South Africa hammered Pakistan by 10 wickets.

Debutant Alfonso Thomas (3-25) took a wicket with his first ball as Pakistan made 129-8 in seam-friendly conditions.

They only hit three sixes and eight fours, which Smith and Bosman had matched within the first seven overs.

Smith ended with 71 off 40 balls, while Bosman hit 53 off 32, and when Smith hit Shahid Afridi for six to seal the win a staggering 51 balls were left.

The tourists went off shell-shocked after an astonishing assault which featured six maximums and 14 fours in all.

That was a complete contrast to the struggles Pakistan endured against swinging and seaming deliveries.

From the moment newcomer Thomas found the edge of Imran Nazir's bat and keeper AB de Villiers moved quicky to his right to pouch the ball they could not break free.

Mohammad Hafeez and Kamran Akmal tried to up the pace by adding 47 off 35 balls for the second wicket but once they went there was little to worry South Africa.

Big-hitter Shahid Afridi was hit in the groin by a Roger Telemachus delivery that jagged back and even he could not spark a revival when he returned later in the innings after a brief rain delay.

Most of the batsmen perished trying desperate slogs and the only real excitement of the innings came in the final over when Rana Naved-ul-Hasan thrashed Johan van der Wath over deep square-leg for two sixes.

Naved and Shabbir Ahmed - back a year after being banned for having an illegal bowling action - were soon put to the sword and Pakistan were nowhere near as accurate with the ball or as efficient in the field.

The real mayhem began from the third over as Smith and Bosman began to find their range.

Fifty-eight runs came in the next four overs to knock the stuffing out of the visitors, with the ball flying to all parts.

Smith found the deep mid-wicket boundary and the crowd sitting behind it at will to claim four sixes, while Bosman hit the ball straighter and through the cover region.

Bosman was dropped by Akmal at long-on before getting to his fifty off 27 balls as South Africa went past 100 in only 57 balls.

Smith reached his third Twenty20 international half century, becoming the first man to do so, off eight more balls but then stepped on the gas to take his team to their target in a blur.

Afridi was dispatched, appropriately enough, over the deep mid-wicket fence to bring the carnage to an end and Pakistan trudged off trying to make sense of what had happened.