South Africa vs Pakistan is going to be a very important game today both teams will face each other at Chennai today, one team which is running like a horse in this tournament and the other one is suffering from multiple losses. South Africa is breaking records with every game and winning with big margins and Pakistan has made its way to the semifinal more challenging. Today both teams will take charge of each other to add two more points. South Africa has won 4 out of five games and sitting just next to India at second and Pakistan with 2 out of five is struggling at number six. 

South Africa vs Pakistan has a very rich cricketing history that they have played 82 games so far and proteas has fully controlled this competition with grabbing 51 of them and Pakistan somehow managed to win in 30 games. In World Cup tournaments South Africa and Pakistan nearly gave a great competition with 3 and 2 wins respectively in five games. Both teams had great batters in their team and made a lot of runs against each other, so in this article I will show you three batters with most runs in this rivalry. 

AB de Villiers 

One of the greatest players in cricketing history AB de Villiers is the highest run scorer in this competition. Between 2006 to 2017 he has played 32 against Pakistan and while batting in 31 innings he scored 1423 runs with three tons and ten fifties. He has batted with an average of 59.29. While batting at wanderers in 2013 he scored an outstanding 128 runs which was the highest score against Pak team. AB is the second highest run scorer in ODI from South Africa and also has the second most centuries. In his whole ODI career he has sent the fall out of the ground from 200 times which is highest ever for his nation and he is the only batter in the history of South African cricket with strike rate of hundred and runs more than five thousand. De Villiers has made so many unbreakable records which only he can break and of them is the fastest ODI century which came against West Indies in 2015 which was in just 31 balls. It has been eight years and the wait continues. 

Jacques Kallis

South African legendary all rounder Jacques Kallis holds the second position in this list. He has played 42 matches against Pakistan between 1996 to 2013 in which he batted only in 39 innings and scored 1273 runs with an average of 42.43. He has only one century against the Asians which came in 1998 at Kingsmead which was unbeaten 109 runs. Jacques has been considered as the greatest all rounder of all time. He is the highest run getter also having third most wickets for South Africa in ODI cricket. He is the only cricketer in the world who has more than 20000 runs and over 500 wickets in international cricket. There are so many records that this player holds but leading the his side for so many years in almost every field is the highest achievement for any cricketer. 

Mohammad Yousuf

Mohammad Yousuf is the only Pak batter present in the top five of this list. In between 1998 to 2010 he has appeared in 34 matches and batted in every game and with two hundreds and nine fifties he managed to 1116 runs with the average of 34.87. In 2007 at Gaddafi stadium he has scored 117 runs which is the highest score in this statistics. This Pakistani batter has some great numbers in ODI cricket, he is the second highest run scorer for Pakistan and in this format. 

In today’s game both teams are going to fully rely on their bowlers due the bowling surface of Chennai but South African batters are in great form it could make Pakistani bowlers helpless.

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