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South Africa vs Pakistan 2nd Test: Pakistan captain Shan Masood reacted to his controversial dismissal on the fourth day of the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town on Monday.

Masood said that the ball-tracking failure was at fault for him being given out lbw in the second innings before Pakistan lost the match by 10 wickets.

The left-handed batter was given not-out by umpire Nitin Menon off the left-arm quick Kwena Maphaka's bowling and had the decision overturned on review when Hawkeye deemed the ball to be hitting off stump.

He was dismissed after playing a memorable knock of 153 runs.

Mentioning the incident, Masood claimed that the pictures Hawkeye threw up did not align with the reality of what had happened off that delivery. "It's simple," Masood said after the end of the game.

"It was an outswinger. If you see the ball that I was beaten by, it jagged away a long way. I was beaten on the outside edge, and it was shown as an inswinger. I was baffled by that to be very honest."

The Pakistan skipper batted for more than six hours over two days for his innings. He looked in no discomfort throughout his knock until that delivery on the fourth day.

Maphaka's delivery landed on a length and the ball kept a touch low while straightening past the outside edge. Masood tried to defend it, squaring him up and striking him on the back pad.

The ball tracking displayed it to have struck Masood in line with the off stump and did not show any significant deviation away from the stumps that would have saved him.

"With the naked eye, you could see it felt like it was outside the line as well. I just felt it was a different picture. I didn't get hit where Hawkeye was showing it to be hit. I was hit more on the outside of the leg than the inside; it shows it on the inside. That's not an inswinger. I was beaten by an outswinger and that's what the umpire thought as well, and that's all I can say to that."

Masood held his ground for an extended period, gesticulating in disagreement. He was left angry and frustrated on his way to the pavilion, also gesturing in an outward arc with his hands to mimic the movement of the ball.

"It's up to the administrators to see if that's a fair decision or not, but I certainly felt that technology didn't show the trajectory of how that ball was," Masood said.

Pakistan were bowled out for 478 runs in their second innings after the follow-on. They set South Africa a target of whuch the hosts chased down in 7.1 overs to compleye a 2-0 whitewash.