The Pakistani media has claimed that fortune abandoned the T20 side during recent times and Wednesday night's rain-affected match in which South Africa won was another example of it.
According to The Nation, Pakistan is now on a losing streak that Mohammad Hafeez lamented they can't seem to break because the luck is just not with them.
Pakistan will play Sri Lanka in this format later in the year but they would still value an opportunity to get one over South Africa, especially because they have been under the pump for most of the past month, the report said.
They showed signs of being able to match the opposition toe to toe in Johannesburg and will hope to pick that up in Cape Town, before the ODI series starts, the report added.
