The Pakistan cricket team played against South Africa in UAE from 26 October to 24 November 2010. The tour was originally scheduled to consist of one Twenty20 (T20), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Tests, but due to the 2010 Pakistan floods, South Africa proposed to play another T20 to raise funds for flood victims.
On 7 October, Pakistan announced their 15-men squad marking the return of Misbah-ul-Haq but no captain was announced (despite the fact that Shahid Afridi has been their limited-overs captain since June that year). A day later, Misbah-ul-Haq was named as the Test captain, while Shahid Afridi was retained as limited-overs captain.
South African captain Graeme Smith announced that despite the controversies surrounding the Pakistan cricket team relating to the spot-fixing scandal, it was important to focus on the series so that the team can prepare for the World Cup.
After much media speculations, it was announced that the Umpire Decision Review System would not be used for the Test series. The Pakistan Cricket Board stated that the media contracts it had signed earlier do not cover UDRS, therefore it would not be used in any of Pakistan's home matches until at least 2012.
South Africa won the ODI series 3-2.
Squads Test squadsLimited overs Squads Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Imran Farhat Taufeeq Umar Mohammad Yousuf Umar Akmal Asad Shafiq Mohammad Hafeez Sohail Tanvir Mohammad Sami Umar Gul Saeed Ajmal Abdur Rehman Azhar Ali Tanvir Ahmed Adnan Akmal (wk) Wahab Riaz Younus Khan Graeme Smith (c) Hashim Amla Johan Botha Mark Boucher (wk) AB de Villiers JP Duminy Paul Harris Jacques Kallis Morné Morkel Wayne Parnell Alviro Petersen Ashwell Prince Dale Steyn Lonwabo Tsotsobe Shahid Afridi (c) Imran Farhat Mohammad Hafeez Younus Khan Umar Akmal Asad Shafiq Tanvir Ahmed Abdul Razzaq Shoaib Akhtar Umar Gul Saeed Ajmal Abdur Rehman Shahzaib Hasan Fawad Alam Zulqarnain Haider (wk) Wahab Riaz Misbah-ul-Haq Mohammad Yousuf Graeme Smith (c) (ODI) Hashim Amla Johan Botha (c) (T20) Albie Morkel AB de Villiers (wk) JP Duminy David Miller Jacques Kallis Morné Morkel Wayne Parnell Robin Peterson Ashwell Prince Dale Steyn Lonwabo Tsotsobe Charl Langeveldt Rusty Theron Loots Bosman Colin Ingram
Twenty20
1st T20I
2nd T20I
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
Test Series
1st Test
2nd Test
Media coverage
Television Ten Sports : India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan Pakistan Television : Pakistan Eurosport : England Setanta Sports Australia : Australia ARY Digital : Europe, UAE and Pakistan SuperSport : South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe Zee Sports : USA CBN-ATN : Canada
References
External links Pakistan v South Africa from Cricinfo