Couple of days ago Pakistan pulled off a thriller in Port Elizabeth, stage set by Saeed Ajmal and Junaid khan with finishing move. As a result Pakistan became the first Asian team to defeat South Africa in South Africa courtesy young guns of Pakistan, If Pakistan somehow manages victory on saturday too, They will become the first team to whitewash South Africa in South Africa, before that South Africa has only been white washed twice by West Indies(1992) and Sri Lanka(2004) in their homes respectively.
Pakistan has a great chance to make history on saturday by beating South Africa at Centurion, if it happens, it will be Pakistan's 18th whitewash victory(Most by any team) in history of One day Internationals, while South Africa has received least number of whitewashes(Qualification : Test Playing nations).
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Lets have a look at no. of whitewash victories by different teams.
Pakistan has a great chance to make history on saturday by beating South Africa at Centurion, if it happens, it will be Pakistan's 18th whitewash victory(Most by any team) in history of One day Internationals, while South Africa has received least number of whitewashes(Qualification : Test Playing nations).
Lets have a look at no. of whitewash victories by different teams.
Pakistan is enjoying the spot with 17 whitewashes. Sri Lanka(1), Bangladesh(4), Zimbabwe(5) , New Zealand(3) and West Indies(4) were at receiving end. while Zimbabwe received whitewash most no. of times, been whitewashed by all the test teams. while South Africa received least number of whitewashes.
Digging in stats, lets have a look at some more interesting stories, Between span of 2005 - 2010 South Africa won 9 series by whitewash, in which Graeme Smith was captain* in 8 of them. while Mighty Australians Between 2003 to 2010 won 8 series by whitewash, and Ricky Ponting was captain* in 7 of them. including a whitewash to ICC World X1.
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*captained atleast 1 match in series.
