South Africa, Pakistan

The hosts South Africa and the visitors Pakistan will compete in the second game of the three-match ODI series Sunday (4th April). The Wanderers Stadium (Johannesburg) will host this ODI while South Africa will wear the pink jersey.

Before this second ODI, the visitors are leading this series by 1-0 as they won the last-ball thriller first ODI by 3 wickets last Friday (2nd March).

Anrich Nortje, Danish Aziz, South Africa, Pakistan, 2nd ODI, Johannesburg, Wanderers, Weather Forecast, Pitch Report
Proteas pacer Anrich Nortje celebrating after the dismissal of Pakistan ODI debutant Danish Aziz during the first ODI (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa vs Pakistan 2021, 2nd ODI: Weather Forecast

The second ODI between South Africa and Pakistan will be played at The Wanderers Stadium (Johannesburg) this Sunday (4th April). It will be again a day ODI which has been scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM local time.

According to the weather forecast, the sky can be cloudy for most of the part of day time. But there is majorly no chance of raining on Sunday, except less than 10% raining chances from early morning to early afternoon.

The temperature for the entire day can be around between 24°C and 12°C. Cricket fans are expecting another thrilling contest between South Africa and Pakistan during the second ODI.

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South Africa, Pakistan, 2nd ODI, Johannesburg, Wanderers, Weather Forecast, Pitch Report

South Africa vs Pakistan 2021, 2nd ODI: Pitch Report

The Wanderers Stadium (Johannesburg) will host this ODI between South Africa and Pakistan. In early January 2021, this venue hosted a Test match between South Africa and Sri Lanka. Last time, this venue hosted an ODI on 9th February 2020 during an ODI match between the hosts’ Proteas and the visitors England.

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Pakistan batsmen Mohammad Rizwan and Shadab Khan and South African cricketer Andile Phehlukwayo (Image Credit: ICC Twitter)

In all the last five ODIs at this venue, only the chasing teams managed to achieve victories (including one rain-curtailed chasing) while the first batting teams always failed to score at least 300 runs. This venue is famous for chasing the world-record ODI target of 435 runs by the hosts’ Proteas against Australia on 12th March 2006. But since then, there is only one more successful 300+ ODI chasing at this venue.

Apart from the batsmen, the pacers also enjoy this ODI venue.

Venue Stats (The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg)

Ground’s history in 1st and 2nd batting in ODIs

Overall ODIs

Stats Overall 1st batting 2nd batting
Win 49 20 29
Innings average (Average run-rate) 227.27 (5.17) 245.43 (5.16) 209.10 (5.17)

In the last 5 ODIs

Stats Overall 1st batting 2nd batting
Win 5 0 5
Innings average (Average run-rate) 213.10 (5.34) 220.60 (4.85) 205.60 (6.00)
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