Pakistan scored a crushing 95-run victory over South Africa on Sunday in the second and final Twenty20 international at SuperSport Park.
Mohammad Hafeez scored a career-best 86 and took three wickets for 25 runs, while fast bowler Umar Gul took five for six as South Africa collapsed to 100 all out.
AB de Villiers with 36 and Rory Kleinveldt (22) contributed the only meaningful scores for the home side.
South Africa made a flying start, with de Villiers batting audaciously as they reached 1-48 in four overs.
But Gul then took four wickets in six balls, spread across two overs, as the match swung irrevocably in Pakistan’s favour.
In between, De Villiers was bowled by Mohammad Irfan for 36, made off 22 balls with two sixes and four fours.
Earlier, Pakistan had made 7-195 from their 20 overs in what was effectively a series decider after the first match in Durban was washed out.
Hafeez blasted 86, thrashing four sixes and nine fours off 50 balls.
Appointed Pakistan’s captain in the shortest form of the game, Hafeez – when he was on 73 – became the first Pakistani to reach 1000 runs in T20 internationals.
His innings was in dramatic contrast to his struggles in a three-match Test series which ended last week in which he could score only 43 runs in six innings at an average of 7.16.
A second-wicket partnership of 83 off 48 balls with Ahmed Shehzad (46) set Pakistan on target for a massive total but the innings lost momentum when Hafeez was out hit wicket with the total on 170 off the third ball of the 17th over.
Hafeez slipped as he went back in his crease to hit Kleinveldt to the cover boundary and he dislodged his bails.