KARACHI: Daryl Mitchell’s and Tom Latham’s half-centuries help New Zealand to clinch the tri-nation series final against Pakistan here at National Bank Stadium on Friday.
NZ 243/5 (45.2 Overs)
45.3: Faheem to Phillips, Wide. Here is the moment, New Zealand comprehensively clinches the tri-nation series trophy.
Faheem Ashraf comes in the bowling attack.
NZ 236/5 (44 Overs)
44.1: Shaheen Shah Afridi to Latham, OUT
Tom Latham 56 (64b 5×4 0x6) SR: 87.5
Shaheen comes in to bowl
NZ 232/4 (43 Overs)
Abrar continues to bowl
NZ 224/4 (42 Overs)
Khushdil shah into the attack
NZ 221/4 (41 Overs)
Abrar continues
NZ 204/4 (40 Overs)
Naseem continues
NZ 195/4 (39 Overs)
38.6: Abrar Ahmed to Mitchell, OUT. Finally, Pakistan has made a breakthrough, but it’s too little, too late now.
Daryl Mitchell 57 (58b 6×4 0x6) SR: 98.27
38.4: Abrar Ahmed to Mitchell, FOUR runs. What a way to bring up your 7th ODI fifty.
Abrar continues
NZ 181/3 (38 Overs)
Naseem comes back into the attack.
NZ 174/3 (37 Overs)
Abrar continues
NZ 169/3 (36 Overs)
Shaheen continues
NZ 160/3 (35 Overs)
Abrar to continue
NZ 156/3 (34 Overs)
Shaheen continues
NZ 145/3 (33 Overs)
Abrar continues
NZ 143/3 (32 Overs)
Shaheen continues
NZ 140/3 (31 Overs)
Abrar back into the attack
NZ 133/3 (30 Overs)
Salman continues
NZ 127/3 (29 Overs)
Naseem to continue
NZ 124/3 (28 Overs)
Salman continues
NZ 120/3 (27 Overs)
Naseem continues
NZ 118/3 (26 Overs)
Salman continues
NZ 113/3 (25 Overs)
24.2: Naseem Shah to Conway; Pakistan senses a comeback after this wicket.
Devon Conway 48 (74b 5×4 0x6) SR: 64.86
Naseem back into the attack
NZ 107/2 (24 Overs)
Salman continues
NZ 99/2 (23 Overs)
Khushdil continues from the other end.
NZ 92/2 (22 Overs)
Salman continues
NZ 89/2 (21 Overs)
Khushdil continues
NZ 85/2 (20 Overs)
Salman to continue
NZ 81/2 (19 Overs)
Khushdil continues
NZ 78/2 (18 Overs)
17.2: Salman to Williamson, OUT, stumps rattled. Big wicket for Pakistan.
Kane Williamson 34 (49b 3×4 1×6) SR: 69.38
NZ 75/1 (17 Overs)
Khushdil Shah comes into bowl the 16th over.
NZ 72/1 (16 Overs)
Salman to continue
NZ 71/1 (15 Overs)
Abrar continues
NZ 63/1 (14 Overs)
Salman continues
NZ 53/1 (13 Overs)
Abrar continues
NZ 51/1 (12 Overs)
Agha Salman into the attack from the other end.
NZ 49/1 (11 Overs)
Change in the bowling attack. It’s spin time. Abrar Ahmed bowls from over the wicket
NZ 45/1 (10 Overs)
Shaheen continues
NZ 36/1 (9 Overs)
Faheem continues
NZ 29/1 (8 Overs)
Shaheen continues
NZ 28/1 (7 Overs)
Change in the bowling. Faheem Ashraf comes into attack
NZ 26/1 (6 Overs)
Naseem continues
NZ 17/1 (5 Overs)
Shaheen to continue
NZ 15/1 (4 Overs)
Naseem Shah continues
NZ 8/1 (3 Overs)
Shaheen Afridi continues
NZ 6/1 (2 Overs)
1.2:Â Early breakthrough for Pakistan as Shah traps Young LBW!!
Will Young 5 (7b 1×4 0x6) SR: 71.42
Naseem Shah with the ball from the other end.
NZ 5/0 (1 Over)
Devon Conway and Will Young to open the innings for New Zealand. Shaheen Afridi will take the new ball for Pakistan.
PAKISTAN vs NEW ZEALAND (2nd INNINGS)
Will O’Rourke took four wickets to bundle Pakistan for 242 in the final of the tri-nation ODI series against New Zealand.
PAK 242 (49.3 Overs)
49.3: Bracewell takes a blinder, and Pakistan has been bowled out for 242 in 49.3 overs.
Naseem Shah 19 (17b 1×4 1×6 24m) SR: 111.76
49.1: lower back of a length ball on off, Faheem looks to go up and over but is deceived by the pace of that. Spoons this straight up and Santner does the rest at mid-off
Faheem Ashraf 22 (21b 2×4 0x6 33m) SR: 104.76
O’Rourke continues
PAK 228/8 (49 Overs)
Smith returns
PAK 228/8 (48 Overs)
O’Rourke is back from over the wicket
PAK 219/8 (47 Overs)
Phillips continues
PAK 210/8 (46 Overs)
Santner continues
PAK 207/8 (45 Overs)
Phillips continues
PAK 202/8 (44 Overs)
43.6: Santner to Shaheen Shah Afridi, another wicket!! Two wickets in the over further dents Pakistan.
Shaheen Shah Afridi 1 (4b 0x4 0x6 2m) SR: 25
43.1: Santner to Khushdil, OUT. Poor shot selection at this stage of the innings.
Khushdil Shah 7 (18b 0x4 0x6 29m) SR: 38.88
Another change. Santner comes into bowl
PAK 200/6 (43 Overs)
Phillips comes back into the attack from around the wicket.
PAK 196/6 (42 Overs)
41.5:Â Duffy picks up the wicket of Tayyab Tahir! He miscued the ball straight to the mid-wicket fielder, who took a simple catch.
Tayyab Tahir 38 (33b 4×4 1×6 37m) SR: 115.15
PAK 193/5 (41 Overs)
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 181/5 (40 Overs)
Jacob Duffy continues
PAK 167/5 (39 Overs)
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 165/5 (38 Overs)
Jacob Duffy returns
PAK 162/5 (37 Overs)
36.5: Tossed up and outside off, Agha shapes to reverse-sweep but ends up top-edging it to Duffy at short third.
Salman Agha 45 (65b 1×4 1×6) SR: 69.23
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 158/4 (36 Overs)
Mitchell Santner continues
PAK 156/4 (35 Overs)
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 152/4 (34 Overs)
Mitchell Santner to bowl from the other end
PAK 150/4 (33 Overs)
Michael Bracewell returns
PAK 143/4 (32 Overs)
31.5: Cross-seam delivery from O’Rourke which creates the natural variation, the ball crashes into the leg stump via the deflection off the inside edge
Mohammad Rizwan 46 (76b 4×4 1×6) SR: 60.52
Will O’Rourke continues
PAK 132/3 (31 Overs)
Nathan Smith continues
PAK 122/3 (30 Overs)
Will O’Rourke continues
PAK 117/3 (29 Overs)
Nathan Smith continues
PAK 114/3 (28 Overs)
Will O’Rourke returns to the attack
PAK 112/3 (27 Overs)
Nathan Smith continues
PAK 108/3 (26 Overs)
Mitchell Santner continues
PAK 108/3 (25 Overs)
Nathan Smith returns
PAK 100/3 (24 Overs)
Mitchell Santner continues
PAK 96/3 (23 Overs)
Glenn Phillips continues
PAK 84/3 (22 Overs)
Mitchell Santner continues
PAK 82/3 (21 Overs)
Glenn Phillips continues
PAK 78/3 (20 Overs)
Mitchell Santner continues
PAK 76/3 (19 Overs)
Glenn Phillips comes into the attack
PAK 69/3 (18 Overs)
Mitchell Santner continues
PAK 68/3 (17 Overs)
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 65/3 (16 Overs)
Mitchell Santner comes into the attack
PAK 63/3 (15 Overs)
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 61/3 (14 Overs)
Nathan Smith continues to bowl
PAK 57/3 (13 Overs)
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 54/3 (12 Overs)
11.5: Babar has chipped a return catch, bowler accepts it gleefully.
Babar Azam 29 (34b 4×4 1×6) SR: 85.29
Nathan Smith into the attack.
PAK 50/2 (11 Overs)
Michael Bracewell continues
PAK 48/2 (10 Overs)
Will O’Rourke to continue
PAK 46/2 (9 Overs)
8.3: The bowl skids in from round the stumps, Saud Shakeel didn’t have room to play that shot either. Bracewell rattles off stump.
Saud Shakeel 8 (14b 1×4 0x6) SR: 57.14
Michael Bracewell comes onto bowl in the first powerplay
PAK 46/1 (8 Overs)
Will O’Rourke to continue
PAK 39/1 (7 Overs)
6.3: Babar reaches 6000 ODI runs – he becomes the joint fastest to the landmark alongside Amla.
Jacob Duffy continues
PAK 29/1 (6 Overs)
Will O’Rourke to continue
PAK 23/1 (5 Overs)
Jacob Duffy continues
PAK 16/1 (4 Overs)
3.5: O’Rourke goes fuller and ends up putting this on the pads of Fakhar Zaman. Instead of crashing it over square leg, Zaman weakly chips it straight to Will Young in the infield.
Fakhar Zaman 10 (15b 2×4 0x6) SR: 66.66
Will O’Rourke to continue
PAK 13/0 (3 Overs)
Jacob Duffy continues
PAK 11/0 (2 Overs)
Will O’Rourke to bowl the second over
PAK 1/0 (1 Over)
Fakhar Zaman and Babar Azam to open the innings for Pakistan. Jacob Duffy will take the new ball for New Zealand.
PAKISTAN vs NEW ZEALAND (1st INNINGS)
Pakistan have won the toss and opted to bat first against New Zealand in the final of the tri-nation ODI series.
Playing XIs
Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (c)(wk), Tayyab Tahir, Salman Agha, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Faheem Ashraf, Abrar Ahmed
New Zealand: Devon Conway, Will Young, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wk), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Jacob Duffy, Nathan Smith, Will O’Rourke
HEAD TO HEAD
Pakistan and New Zealand have competed in a total of 117 ODI matches. Pakistan leads the head-to-head record with 61 victories, while New Zealand has won 52 matches. Additionally, three matches have ended without a result, and one match ended in a tie.
Matches 117, Pakistan 61, New Zealand 52, NR 3, Tie 1
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It’s worth noting that New Zealand qualified for the final on the back of their dominant victories over Pakistan and South Africa.
In the opening match, Glenn Phillips struck an unbeaten 106 off 74 to help the Kiwis defeat Pakistan, while in their second match star batter Kane Williamson’s century steered them to victory over South Africa.
Meanwhile, Pakistan defeated South Africa by six wickets in the third match, courtesy of captain Mohammad Rizwan and Salman Ali Agha’s centuries, to qualify for the tri-nation series final.
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