South Africa go top of the table and look well-placed to make the semis. Pakistan on the other hand for the first time in their #CWC history have lost four in a row.

Temba Bavuma | South Africa captain: It is chaos at the moment. The guys are enjoying the moment. The guys are picking up Shamsi. Chaos at the moment. Nail-biting finish, if you are a South African fan, you will be happy. Pressure with us chasing, we haven't done well to rectify that. It will be easier to have those conversations especially after the win. You need to have the guys in the best situations and truly speak out as to what they were thinking. Hard to say now but those conversations will happen. It is something we have spoken and something which has been thrown about. We have a blueprint when we bat first, we can't say with conviction we have that when we are cashing. We want to be a lot more clinical with the bat. That's nice to hear. KG (Rabada) is good, it was more precautionary, he is experiencing lower back issues and a couple of days rest before New Zealand and he will be in contention. Ecstatic for Shamsi, started with the ball, came in when conditions were helpful and then with the bat. We have seen Shamsi gloating on social media about his batting. It won't stop for the next two weeks but it's nice for a senior guy like Shamsi to come out with the bat like that.

Babar Azam | Pakistan captain: We are very close, we did not finish well. Very disappointing for the whole team. We fought back very well. In the batting we were 10-15 short. The fast bowlers and spinners fought well but unfortunately it was not to be. It is part of the game, in DRS it is part of the game. Had he given it out, it would have favored us. We have an opportunity to win this and stay in the race but not to be. We will try our best in the next 3 matches and put our efforts and play for Pakistan. Let's see where we will stand after that.

Tabraiz Shamsi | Player of the Match: Really happy. I knew I had to do a job there, but the guys before me set it up. Credit goes to those guys too. I’ve played enough cricket to know sometimes it goes for you, sometimes it doesn’t. I didn’t expect to be here with my pads on doing this interview. (On the last over) If I tried to play a big shot and if it didn’t come off, the boys wouldn’t welcome me back to the change room. So there was no doubt in my mind that I had to just defend and get Kesh on strike. These are the kind of moments you dream of, to be in the middle at the end and win your team a game. Kesh was unbelievable out there.

Interesting stats by Deepu Narayanan

First time Pakistan have lost four successive matches in World Cups

One wicket win in World Cups
WI vs Pak Birmingham 1975
Pak vs WI Lahore 1987
SA vs SL Providence 2007
Eng vs WI Bridgetown 2007
Afg vs Sco Dunedin 2015
NZ vs Aus Auckland 2015
SA vs Pak Chennai 2023

Tabraiz Shamsi | Player of the Match: Really happy. I knew I had to do a job there, but the guys before me set it up. Credit goes to those guys too. I’ve played enough cricket to know sometimes it goes for you, sometimes it doesn’t. I didn’t expect to be here with my pads on doing this interview. (On the last over) If I tried to play a big shot and if it didn’t come off, the boys wouldn’t welcome me back to the change room. So there was no doubt in my mind that I had to just defend and get Kesh on strike. These are the kind of moments you dream of, to be in the middle at the end and win your team a game. Kesh was unbelievable out there.

Highest successful chases by SA in World Cups
297 vs Ind Nagpur 2011
271 vs Pak Chennai 2023
254 vs Ind Hove 1999
This is also the highest successful chase by SA against Pakistan in all ODIs surpassing 251 in East London in 1998.

Pakistan defending 270+ in World Cups
1975-2019: 15 mat | 14 wins | 1 defeat
2023: 3 mat | 1 win | 2 defeats

22:35 Local Time, 17:05 GMT, 22:35 IST: 27th October 2023! It has taken 23 days for the tournament to catch fire. And we have the first close game. And what a game it was. South Africa go top of the table after this win!

Nawaz to Maharaj, FOUR, Maharaj has done it!

One hit and Maharaj is on strike. Will he go for it?

Nawaz to Shamsi, 1 run, to square leg

Mohammad Nawaz [6.0-0-35-0] is back into the attack