The going will only get tougher for Pakistan, Dale Steyn promised yesterday after bowling South Africa to triumph in the first cricket Test at Wanderers.
SA won by 211 runs with five sessions of play to spare, which means victory in the second Test, starting at Newlands on February 14, would clinch the series.
"We want to go to Cape Town and continue this wave of dominating cricket," said Steyn, who claimed match figures of 11/60.
The Proteas won both Tests against New Zealand by an innings this summer and they were never seriously challenged by Pakistan.
Graeme Smith was mindful of maintaining the high standards South Africa, the No1-ranked team in Test cricket, had set.
"We're not going to complain about winning in three or four days," Smith said. "To keep backing up performances is the challenge."
A responsive pitch was Pakistan's ally on the first day, when they dismissed the Proteas for 253. But the tables were turned when the visitors were blasted out for 49 on the second day.
South Africa declared their second innings closed on 275-3 on Sunday, leaving Pakistan to chase what would have been a world-record winning score of 480. They were dismissed for 268.
"For a team that comes from Asia, it's difficult to handle that sort of bowling," Misbah ul-Haq said of SA's quality pace attack.
His team's victory target left them with only one option: "The only thing you can do is bat, bat, bat for as long as you can."
But the Pakistanis, only two of whom have played Test cricket in this country before, had been given a better idea of how to deal with SA's bowlers: "We can see that once the new ball is gone we can bat on these pitches."
Pakistan resumed on 183-4 with the new ball due in five overs.
Jacques Kallis and Morne Morkel got those out of the way, leaving Steyn and Philander fresh to let fly with the hard cherry.
Sixteen deliveries after the new ball was taken, Asad Shafiq edged Steyn to second slip, where Kallis made a difficult, dipping catch look effortless.
That removed Shafiq for 56 and ended the 321 balls and more than three-and-a-half hours of defiance that was Pakistan's fifth-wicket stand of 127.
The rest of their significant resistance disappeared 12 balls later when Misbah tried to defend a Steyn away-swinger and edged a catch to De Villiers.
Pakistan's captain delivered an innings worthy of his status, scoring 63 off 167 balls in more than four hours.
Philander got into the act 15 balls later when Sarfraz Ahmed chopped on. Then Morne Morkel and Steyn had Saeed Ajmal and Umar Gul caught behind respectively. Steyn then trapped Junaid Khan in front to end the match.
The Proteas needed 90 minutes to take Pakistan's last six wickets, which fell for 59 runs.
The visitors will try to solve some of their problems in a match against a WP Invitation XI in Cape Town on Sunday and Monday.
Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. 
