# Cricket: Proteas captain Aiden Markram ascribed their 93-run defeat to Pakistan in the first Test in Lahore to the top order’s inability to post competitive scores. South Africa was bowled out for 183 in their second innings after a first-innings deficit of 109 runs, when Tony de Zorzi’s 104 and Ryan Rickelton’s 71 were the only highlights. This cancelled spinner Senuran Muthusamy’s brilliant 11 wicket haul. Markram expects similar conditions in the second Test in Rawalpindi, and wants himself and the other batters to up their game.
Cricket: Markram blames top-order’s bad batting for defeat in first Test