Fakhr Zaman became the guest cricketer to play the biggest innings in South Africa.

The opener played a brilliant inning of 193 runs.

 Fakhr Zaman became the guest cricketer to play the biggest innings in South Africa.

National team opener Fakhr Zaman became the guest cricketer to play the biggest innings in South Africa. In the second ODI against South Africa, Fakhr Zaman played a brilliant inning and scored 193 runs with the help of 15 fours and ten sixes. Earlier, David Warner had scored 176 runs in 2016 against the Proteas.

On the other hand, Fakhr Zaman has crossed another milestone in his ODI career. Fakhr Zaman completed 2,000 runs in 49 ODIs with an average of 45 and a strike rate of 95. His career so far has included 5 centuries and 13 half-centuries. Fakhr Zaman is also the first player to score 200 runs in ODIs for Pakistan.

Despite his 193-run innings in the second ODI against South Africa, Fakhr Zaman could not give Pakistan victory but with this excellent innings, he set a new world record. South Africa gave Pakistan a target of 342 for victory in the second ODI of the series in Johannesburg. In pursuit of the target, Pakistan's batting line failed miserably and none of the batsmen could match the South African bowlers except Fakhr Zaman.

The national team had lost 7 wickets for 205 runs on one occasion and needed 137 more runs to win but at this stage, Fakhr Zaman completed his century by batting brilliantly with the tail-enders and revived Pakistan's hopes of victory.

Fakhr Zaman was run out just 7 runs away from the double century. The opening batsman played an innings of 193 off 155 balls with the help of 8 fours and 10 sixes and Pakistan lost the match by 17 runs.

Fakhr Zaman did not lead the Pakistani team to victory but set a new world record in the 50-year history of ODI cricket. Fakhr Zaman became the highest-scoring batsman in the history of ODI cricket in pursuit of the target. Earlier, Shane Watson of Australia had the record of playing the most number of innings in pursuit of the target.

He was tired of playing an innings of 185 against Bangladesh in Mirpur in 2011. Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni played against Sri Lanka in 2005. He scored 183 not out while Indian captain Virat Kohli scored 183 runs against Pakistan in 2012. Earlier, no Pakistani batsman had scored more than 150 runs in pursuit of the target.