Playing Test matches after a couple of years for South Africa, veteran Simon Harmer gave a good account of himself, taking 13 wickets for the series against Pakistan on slow and turning tracks in Lahore and Rawalpindi.

Simon Harmer has built a career on such deliveries: full, outside the left-hander’s off stump, spinning away and kissing the outside edge. But you suspect that this particular wicket, to dismiss Pakistan’s Noman Ali in the Test in Rawalpindi,

He has played just 12 Tests for South Africa in all these years, but away from the limelight, Simon Harmer has put together a truly remarkable body of work | ESPN.com

Simon Harmer's six-wicket haul helped South Africa secure a series-levelling victory against Pakistan, marking his 1000th first-class wicket.

The Proteas have delivered an impeccable exhibition of the Test-match arts to claim a memorable victory in Rawalpindi which helped the world-champions share the two-match series with Pakistan.

The plan worked perfectly; Harmer got the ball to pitch on the line of off-stump and straighten, and with Babar choosing, wrongly, to play off the back foot, once it hit the pad umpire Chris Brown barely hesitated before raising his finger.

South Africa beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the second Test in Rawalpindi on Thursday to draw the series 1-1 with Simon Harmer taking a maiden five-wicket haul.

South Africa spinner Simon Harmer bowled a gem of a delivery against Imam ul Haq in the Rawalpindi Test match. In the morning session of Day 1, Harmer was able to turn the ball square against the opener.