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PAK V SA, 2ND T20I

Fewer fault lines in this performance from South Africa

South Africa levelled the series in style on Saturday
South Africa levelled the series in style on Saturday ©AFP

Every journalist surely has had "small earthquake far away, none dead" slung at them by newsroom denizens as a prime example of what in the trade is called a non-story: not worth writing nor bothering readers about. At 6.4 on the Richter scale, the rumble that sent shudders upward and outward from 80 kilometres below Tajikistan just after 10pm on Friday was not small. Happily, it killed no-one. And, for South Africans, it was far away.

But it was felt in Lahore, where the earth moved again less than 24 hours later. As before, no-one was harmed. This time the news was indeed noted in faraway South Africa - because, for the first time on the tour of Pakistan, the visitors won.

Victory in the

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