PAK vs SA: Kagiso Rabada Registers Highest Score By No.11 Batter In Tests For South Africa, Goes Past 119-Year-Old Record

Pakistan vs South Africa 2nd Test: South Africa created history as they achieved a sensational batting record during their second Test match against Pakistan at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. He played a remarkable knock of 71 runs on the third day of the match to help his team post a massive total.

Rabada recorded the highest individual score by a No. 11 batter in Test cricket for South Africa. The 30-year-old pacer from Johannesburg came out to bat in the 100th over of South Africa's first innings and ended up hitting four boundaries and as many sixes. He added 98 runs from 117 balls for the 10th wicket with Senuran Muthusamy, who remained unbeaten on 89 runs from 155 balls (8 fours).

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Rabada's effort helped South Africa take a promising lead of 71 runs before they were bowled out for 404 runs. Before Rabada, the record of the highest individual score in Test cricket by a No. 11 batter for South Africa was in the name of Bert Vogler. Vogler scored 62 runs in their first innings of the Cape Town Test played against England in 1906.

Highest score by No. 11 batter in Tests for South Africa

Kagiso Rabada: 71 runs vs Pakistan in Rawalpindi (2025)

Bert Vogler: 62* runs vs England in Cape Town (1906)

Pat Symcox: 54 runs vs Australia in Adelaide (1998)

Morne Morkel: 40 runs vs New Zealand in Wellington (2017)

Dane Paterson: 39 runs vs England in Gqeberha (2020)

The overall record for scoring the most runs by a No. 11 batter in Test cricket is in the name of Australia's Ashton Agar. Agar scored 98 runs from 101 balls against England in Nottingham in the first innings of the Ashes Test in July 2013.

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He is followed by Tino Best, James Anderson and Zaheer Khan, who scored 95, 81 and 75 runs, respectively.

Highest score by No. 11 batter in Tests

Ashton Agar (AUS): 98 runs vs England in 2013

Tino Best (WI)l 95* runs vs England in 2012

James Anderson (ENG): 81 runs vs India in 2014

Zaheer Khan (IND): 75 runs vs Bangladesh in 2004

Kagiso Rabada (SA): 71 runs vs Pakistan in 2025

PAK vs SA Playing XIs 2nd Test

Pakistan: Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Shan Masood (c), Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Salman Agha, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Asif Afridi

South Africa: Aiden Markram (c), Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, Tony de Zorzi, Dewald Brevis, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Senuran Muthusamy, Marco Jansen, Simon Harmer, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada