Pakistan wins ODI series against New Zealand

Pakistan has won the ODI series against New Zealand!

Wednesday saw the home team’s spectacular performance that secured them winning the 5-match one-day international (ODI) series by 3-0 against the visiting side, New Zealand.

Pakistan won the third ODI by 26 runs and took a decisive lead in the series.

In the third match of the series played in Karachi, New Zealand captain Tom Latham won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat first.

While batting first Pakistan scored 287 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the allotted overs.

Pakistan’s experienced openers provided a 37-run opening stand but Henry restricted Fakhar Zaman to an individual innings of 19.

Fakhar Zaman, who batted brilliantly in the opening matches of the series, scored 19 runs on 26 balls, which included 4 fours.

Captain Babar Azam led the innings with Imam-ul-Haq and both batsmen hit half-centuries.

Imam-ul-Haq completed his half-century in 67 balls, which is the 16th half-century of his ODI career.

After that, captain Babra completed his 26th ODI half-century off 58 balls.

After making a good partnership of 108 runs for the second wicket, Babar Azam got out on the ball of Henry, but he played an inning of 54 runs off 62 balls with the help of 3 fours and a six.

Abdullah Shafiq got a chance to bat but failed to capitalize on it and left Imam-ul-Haq for 182 after scoring just 19 runs off 23 balls.

Imam-ul-Haq scored 90 runs off 107 balls with the help of 7 fours and a six while batting responsibly and could not complete his century by 10 runs.

The experienced opener was dismissed by Milne on the last ball of the 38th over and at that time Pakistan’s score was 192 runs.

Mohammad Rizwan and Agha Salman accelerated the run-scoring pace to some extent and took the team’s total to 246 runs in 46 overs.

Pakistan’s fifth out was Agha Salman, who scored 31 off 29 balls with 3 fours, Henry’s third wicket.

Mohammad Rizwan played an innings of 32 runs off 34 balls with the help of a six and was the last batsman to be dismissed for 261.

Mohammad Nawaz scored 11 runs off 9 balls and Shadab Khan remained not out by scoring 21 runs off 10 balls.

Matt Henry was the top wicket-taker for New Zealand with 3 wickets, Adam Milne 2 and Cole McConchie 1 wicket.

The New Zealand openers batted well in pursuit of the target and scored 83 runs in the first wicket partnership.

Will Young was the first batsman to get out after scoring 33 runs off 41 balls with 3 fours. He became the target of Agha Salman’s excellent fielding in an attempt to get a quick run.

Daryl Mitchell was dismissed after scoring 21 runs at the score of 113.

The partnership between Tom Blundell and Tom Latham was also short-lived and Blundell, who scored a half-century on 128, was also run out.

New Zealand’s third-out batsman Tom Blundell scored 65 runs from 78 balls including 7 fours.

Pakistan’s fielders performed well and kept the visiting team’s batsmen from getting quick runs and took wickets in return.

Mark Chapman scored only 13 runs but helped the skipper to take the score to 168 runs, Chapman was dismissed by Naseem Shah.

Agha Salman took the wicket of Henry Nicholls letting him score just one run.

Kiwi captain Tom Latham scored 45 off 60 balls and tried as hard as possible to bring the team closer to the target but failed and Mohammad Wasim scattered his wickets.

During New Zealand’s innings, Pakistan’s all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz suffered an injury and could not complete his sixth over.

Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled Adam Milne in the 45th over to claim his first wicket of the match as New Zealand’s seventh man returned to the pavilion on 227.

Naseem Shah ended Henry Shapley’s innings for 6 runs on the first ball of the 48th over.

Shaheen Shah Afridi ended Ash Sodhi’s innings with one run in the 49th over and dealt another blow to the struggling New Zealand team.

Naseem Shah dismissed Matt Henry on the first ball of the last over and sent the entire New Zealand team to the pavilion for 261 runs.

New Zealand’s Cole McConchie scored 63 not out but could not lead his team to victory.