South Africa fueled their Twenty20 juggernaut with a convincing six-wicket win and subsequent two-nil series triumph over former World T20 champions Pakistan in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

Having now won close to 70 percent of their 37 matches played, thanks largely to their domination with the bat, the Proteas continued the norm, with Graeme Smith, Colin Ingram and JP Duminy taking their cue to lead the charge.

Whereas Loots Bosman, who averages a paltry 8.25 across eight Twenty20 Internationals in 2010, faltered again and AB de Villiers went too big too soon in falling for 11, the left-handed Smith rode his luck in surviving a grassed chance on 10 - from Shoaib Akhtar - and a straightforward spill at deep extra cover - from Umar Akmal - on 29. The beefy opener eventually met his match - a rather loud and overzealous Zulqarnain Haider - when he was smartly stumped for 38.

Smith's departure left Ingram, with Duminy along for the ride, to repeat their heroics from Tuesday, when the talented twosome carried their side the bulk of the way to first blood in the series.

It took just three low-risk blows from Ingram in the 17th over of the innings to all but seal the deal for the South Africans, with tiring pace ace Akhtar pasted for six, four and four by the audacious left-hander. Akhtar, to an extent, had the last laugh when he had Ingram caught at long-on for 31 runs from 17 deliveries, but by then enough damage had been done.

Duminy and David Miller promtly finished the job with minimal fuss. Scampered singles and a last hurrah - six squirted over backward square-leg courtesy Duminy - ultimately brought on the Proteas' sixth Twenty20 International win on the trot with and over and then some to spare.

Earlier, Pakistan again won the toss and rightly opted to bat first on a placid pitch, only to replicate the awful shot selection and general ill-discipline that littered their six-wicket loss in Tuesday's series opener.

Captain Shahid Afridi and coach Waqar Younis insisted their charges learn from their mistakes in the first Twenty20 International, orchestrate measured strokeplay rather than thoughtless hitting and build substantial partnerships.

However, their requirements and advice fell on deaf ears, including those of the hypocritical Afridi, as batsman after batsman holed out to their own collective stupidity.

While Shahzaib Hasan's skyer picked out the cover fielder to perfection, Imran Farhat's 'swing for the fences regardless' approach soon had his stumps castled. Mohammad Hafeez tried to force away a testing line and length he should rather have been blocking, Akmal succumbed to a lame run-out and Afridi, yet again, suffered a characteristic rush of blood to the head in perishing in the deep.

Pakistan's capitulation from 29 for one to 39 for five was utterly pathetic and Misbah-ul-Haq (33 ) and Abdul Razzaq (25) were left to pick up the pieces. The duo offered an abject lesson in how to intersperse singles with boundaries, with Razzaq's penchant for sixes down the ground aiding their cause.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Haider's later-order 17 did its bit to, at least, push the score past three figures before Rusty Theron stepped in to clean up the tail.

Man of the Match Theron, the only Proteas bowler not to bag a scalp in Tuesday's clash, finished with a career-best four-for - three of 'em in his final over - to upstage Warriors team-mate Lonwabo Tsotsobe, who had earlier nabbed a quick brace.

Although not confronted by entirely tough opposition in Abu Dhabi, South Africa have, for the time being, kept quiet the slew of fielding critics they picked in the recent series against Zimbabwe. Their batting, meanwhile, remains as authoritative as ever. Pakistan, however, should immediately offer fast-bowling consultant Aqib Javed's salary to a batting coach, without which they will continue to flounder across the upcoming ODI series.

Shot of the Day
Quickly developing into a man for the big occasion, Ingram trumped Tuesday's six over backward square-leg off Akhtar with a major impact - again off Akhtar - high, hard and handsome over long-on to open the floodgates for South Africa's closing throes.

Delivery of the Day
One couldn't have picked a better delivery to bowl to a tail-ender: Theron's yorker to castle Gul was as good as it gets. Death bowling to a tee, indeed.

Defining Moment of the Day
Getting the 35-year-old Akhtar to put in a better, quicker, fuller dive at short fine-leg might've been too much of an ask, but had his hackneyed effort somehow hung onto the sharp chance offered by Smith, on 10 at the time, South Africa's chase could have been set on a somewhat more testing course.

Jonhenry Wilson